Chapter 187: The Battle of Caojiadu
In order to avoid Jing Dapeng screaming too badly, as soon as the firewood was lit, Gong Changyu asked Liu Yuntian to stuff a rag in Jing Dapeng's mouth, and then he was smashed by the onlookers and sat in the copper cylinder, letting the copper cylinder get hotter and hotter, and the skin and flesh were roasted so loudly that he couldn't shout, only opened his eyes in horror, looking at his biological father Yuankong Monk who was tied up by five flowers, Yuankong also understood Jing Dapeng's fear, he didn't want to die.
"General Gong, you let my son go." Monk Yuankong, kneeling on the sand, prayed.
"It's too late." Gong Changyu responded, "General Ben gave him a chance to reform himself, he doesn't cherish it, it's not a pity for this kind of person to die!" I didn't execute him in Lingchi, I already cheapened him. ”
"General, what's the difference between this burning at the stake and Ling Chi?" Monk Yuankong asked.
"Of course there is a difference. He was burned at the stake and left him with a whole body, and Ling Chi executed no bones. Gong Changyu said with a smile.
"Why don't you just behead it?" Monk Yuankong said.
"The decapitation is all at once. This general is to give a deterrent to those lawbreakers who dare to destroy the defense of Wuyou City! After Gong Changyu finished speaking, he ordered his subordinates to continue to add charcoal to the bottom of the copper cylinder.
Under the charcoal fire, the copper jar gradually turned red until it turned red. The smoke and fire were burning, Jing Dapeng fainted, and the onlookers applauded one by one, no one would pity this extremely cruel leader of the Blue Wolf Army.
The fire lasted for half an hour, Jing Dapeng was scorched, and the execution was over. Before the beheading, the monk Yuankong confessed the whereabouts of the silver in the underground palace of Wangcheng, Gong Changyu remembered that he had made meritorious contributions, and no longer held him responsible, but opened the net, let him return to Hualong Temple, continue to be his abbot, and warned him that he would never be spared if he committed another crime......
After Shi Xianda, who was outside the city, learned that Jing Dapeng had been executed, he was furious and ordered an all-out siege of the city. The soldiers and civilians of Wuyou City resisted and fought fiercely for several days, and the Blue Wolf Army suffered heavy casualties and did not capture Wuyou City. After resting outside Wuyou City for a week, Shi Xianda learned that Jiang Changyi of Hongjiang Ancient City had come from the west with more than 10,000 people from the "Jiang Family Army".
The clouds of war hanging over Wuyou City finally dissipated, and the common people of the whole city rushed to tell each other, rejoiced, and spontaneously beat gongs and drums, and brought gifts to the county government to send a pennant of "protecting the country and the people" to Gong Changyu's Jingjie battalion to express their gratitude.
Because the people had just experienced the war and their lives were difficult, Gong Changyu only accepted the pennant and resolutely returned the gifts to the people. And some rich businessmen killed pigs and sheep and sent them to the barracks to reward the soldiers, Gong Changyu took all the orders, unceremoniously, he understood that the rich businessmen's money was a little easier than that of ordinary people, and he fought desperately against the blue wolf army, to a large extent, to protect the interests of the rich businessmen from damage. Those who eat and drink theirs are much more down-to-earth than those who eat and drink the common people.
Lu Zanchen and Mr. Yin invited the generals above the general of the Jingjie Battalion to have dinner at the Weixi River Fish Restaurant, and Gong Changyu was not good enough to refuse, after all, it was okay to celebrate the victory and celebrate.
After drinking almost at the Weixi River Fish Restaurant, Gong Changyu suddenly remembered that Jing Zhigang promised to give him an eighteen-year-old singer before his death, and he couldn't help but feel itchy in his heart, so he rode a war horse and went to the inn where Xiao Taohong lived.
As soon as I entered the door, the owner of the inn said that Xiao Taohong had left the inn and went to the countryside with those troupes to sing in the homes of big families.
"Hey, people go to tea and cool." When Gong Changyu heard this, he was not disappointed.
Riding a horse and walking on the street, Gong Changyu scolded himself in his heart, Gong Laoxue, Gong Laoxue, Xiao Taohong is the concubine of Lord Jing, won't you have to take it for yourself? Entrusted by people, loyal to people. It seems that there is nothing wrong with taking care of the little peach.
Returning to the camp in a daze, Gong Chang saw that the soldiers were still drinking with their fists, and sat down with them and drank until dawn, and then fell asleep......
After the Blue Wolf Army retreated, Mr. Xi Qitian, a native of Dong'an, acted as an agent for Wuyouzhi County, responsible for the pacification of the displaced people after the war; The black marshal led 300 men and continued to garrison the city to maintain law and order.
Jing Zhi Gangzhi County was killed in the line of duty, Jing Dapeng was burned at the stake for plotting misdeeds, Tao Dongjiao learned the news, it was difficult to bear the grief of losing her husband and child for a while, and she actually took Hongxing to the barracks to find the black marshal, crying, and washing her face with tears.
"Hei Dashuai, why is the old lady so miserable?" Tao Dongjiao patted his heart and said.
"Jiao'er, don't you still have me...... The coming day is long ......, "The black handsome who pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade can't stop persuading Tao Dongjiao to open a point."
"You promised me, if Jing Zhi just died, you would marry me......" Tao Dongjiao wiped his tears with a handkerchief, and secretly glanced at Hei Dashuai from between his fingers.
"Madame, don't be in a hurry. Master Jing is dead, I'm just afraid of ......" Hei Dashuai hesitated.
"That's dead, it's impossible to let the old lady be widowed?" Tao Dongjiao questioned Hei Dashuai, "Who let you tease me, you dead ghost ......"
was entangled so much that there was no way, according to the previous "agreement" between the two, Hei Dashuai moved into Tao Dongjiao's residence, and naturally became the new owner of the Jing family's courtyard. The maid Hongxing accidentally fell and miscarried, and not long after, she was also arched by the black handsome cabbage and accepted as a second room. Hehe, Hei Dashuai finally has a home, although Tao Dongjiao is already a grandmother, but the ability to give birth and raise is still there, and in the next few years, she gave birth to two sons and a daughter in a row to Hei Dashuai. A wife and a concubine, although they are all second-hand goods, but Hei Dashuai does not dislike it, as long as the relationship is good and considerate, take care of him!
The Blue Wolf Army escaped, and the mission of the Jingjie Battalion was not completed. Gong Changyu took more than 1,000 people from the Jingnan Army and continued to pursue Shi Xianda, who had returned to Western Guangdong County, and entered Quanzhou. Those blue wolf armies ran really fast, Gong Changyu pursued them for four or five days, and he didn't see Shi Xianda's shadow.
After Gong Changyu chased for a day and a night, he rushed to Zhangshuya, the sky was cloudless, the weather was sultry, and Gong Changyu asked the troops to settle down to rest. One by one, the soldiers were exhausted, sat down to rest, and cheered: We can rest for a while.
The men built a stove to prepare for cooking, and as soon as the rice was put into the pot, an order from Gong Changyu suddenly came from the barracks, saying that the whole army should evacuate this place immediately, and there must be no mistakes, and those who violate the order will be beheaded.
"I haven't eaten anything, what are you going to do?"
"Isn't that crazy?"
"Hey, the sweat hasn't dried, and I'm in a hurry again." ……
This order came so suddenly that many soldiers were puzzled, and although they trusted the general, they complained about this unexplained shift. However, Gong Changyu didn't pay attention to the soldiers' complaints about him, just smiled slightly, and hurriedly moved the camp.
Shortly after they had moved, it began to rain heavily, and the area where they had set up camp was quickly flooded. Many soldiers had to be convinced, and asked why Gong Changyu knew that it was going to rain heavily, did he have the ability to be a prophet?
Gong Changyu explained with a smile, I just saw the ants on the ground moving in a hurry when I was going to the toilet. When the ants move, there will be heavy rain, and I expected the heavy rain to come, so I gave the order to move the camp.
After learning the truth, the sergeants couldn't help but admire Gong Changyu: Thanks to the general's careful observation, we, our ordnance, grain and grass escaped the catastrophe of being flooded.
After being stationed in Zhangshuya for a period of time, he was quite familiar with the terrain on the border between Jingnan County and Yuexi County, and Gong Changyu was worried that the blue wolf army would take advantage of the flood season in Hunan to grab ships and march north to attack Tanzhou, the smelting place of Jingnan County. Gong Changyu sent a team of sentinels out, and soon the sentries came back and reported the truth, confirming that Gong Changyu's worries were correct. The Blue Wolf Army obtained hundreds of civilian ships, loaded all the old and young women and baggage on the boats, and prepared to advance along the Hunan River, both by land and water, to attack Tanzhou in the north, and to join the Blue Wolf Kingdom in Jingbei County.
In order to prevent the army from moving north, Gong Changyu quickly controlled Caojiadu in the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River and set up an ambush in the area of the ferry. Caojiadu is located in the north of Quanzhou City ten miles, is a dangerous ferry port in the upper reaches of the Xiangjiang River, the river surface is narrow, the two banks are heavy and mountainous, the trees are towering, and the water flow is turbulent.
Gong Changyu asked the troops to take local materials, cut down trees, and set up piles in the water of Santangwan River, three miles north of the ferry, to build wooden weirs, block the river channel, and intercept the ships of the Blue Wolf Army going downstream. The strength of the Jingnan army was insufficient, so Gong Changyu ordered the troops to ambush on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, planted military flags everywhere, arranged suspicious soldiers, bluffed, and confused the blue wolf army.
At the same time, he sent a messenger to quickly whip his horse and ask Tu Chun, the general of the Blue Wolf Army, to send troops to block the east bank of the Xiang River.
Sure enough, a few days later, the Blue Wolf Army sailed down the river by boat and entered the intended ambush range of the Jingnan Army. The blue wolf army found that the boat road was blocked, and heard that there were ambush soldiers on the west bank shouting to kill, so they had to rush to fight, the Jingnan army and the blue wolf army fought fiercely on the west bank for two days and nights, both sides had many casualties, the blue wolf army had thousands of people killed, and the corpses floated down the river until Tanzhou and Xiangzhou, which was miserable. The ships of the Blue Wolf Army were almost all burned, and they seized the ships to cross to the east, and covered the old and young women on the east bank with heavy troops, and abandoned all the baggage boats in the river.
The strength of the Jingjie battalion was thin, and he was very tired from the rapid march for several days, and Gong Changyu did not dare to command the whole army to cross the river to pursue the blue wolf army. Tuchun's battalion was delayed, and the Blue Wolf Army was able to cross the mountains from the east bank, enter Jingnan County, and march in the direction of Yingyang, and the battle plan to encircle and annihilate the Blue Wolf Army fell through.
At that time, it rained heavily for several days, and the river water swelled. If there is no Jingnan army to block it, the blue wolf army will go north and reach Tanzhou in three or four days. The interception of the Jingnan army at Caojiadu bought a lot of time for Lu Tianzhang, the governor of Jingnan stationed in Tanzhou, and the soldiers and civilians of Tanzhou were able to build a city for defense.