Volume III, Chapter 652
"I know very well what I'm talking about, and I also know what kind of decision I've made in my heart, Zhang, Door, Lord!" Lin Yu looked at Zhang Dong without fear, and said word by word, and especially accentuated the words 'Master Zhangmen', obviously to draw a line with him.
Zhang Dong stared at Lin Yu for a long time, and after a while, he shook off Lin Yu's wrist fiercely, and said coldly: "Whatever you want!" As he spoke, he bowed his hand to Lin Haotian respectfully and said, "My lord, since the master of the hall has made up his mind, please accept the master of the hall of Ji!"
Lin Haotian was a little crying and laughing by these two people, and wanted to refuse, but looking at the expressions of the two of them, he shook his head secretly, and then again, having Lin Yu by his side was indeed convenient for the contact between him and Zhang Dong.
After a moment of silence, Lin Haotian nodded and responded: "Okay, Hall Master Ji will stay by Ben Shuai's side and be a maid." β
"Thank you, my lord!" Before Zhang Dong could say anything, Lin Yu seemed to be eager to thank Lin Haotian.
Because of Lin Yu's incident, Zhang Dong's expression was a little unnatural, but soon he returned to normal, getting rid of the sense of humiliation and loss in his heart, Lin Yu could stay by Lin Haotian's side, which was also very beneficial to him, after all, he could give him one more chess piece by Lin Haotian's side.
As long as there is power and status, there are as many women as there are, and Lin Yu is not inferior to this one! Zhang Dong sneered in his heart.
Lin Haotian mainly handed over the matter of supporting Zhang Dong to the demon underworld warriors, he believed that with the help of the demonic underworld warriors, no gang dared to oppose Zhang Dong as the leader of the alliance, but. Things didn't go as smoothly as he thought they would, and of course, that's a story for later.
When he came to see Lin Haotian, Zhang Dong and Lin Yu came together, but when they were about to leave, only Zhang Dong was left alone.
Before leaving, Zhang Dong deliberately called Lin Yu outside and walked to a secluded place where no one was around, and he explained to Lin Yu in a soft tone. The reason why I agreed to the adult just now was a request. I had already seen the adult's temptation, so I didn't refuse, but I didn't expect her to misunderstand what she meant.
Looking at Zhang Dong, who was speechless in front of him and eager to explain clearly, Lin Yu suddenly felt like laughing. Didn't say anything. Stand there. Just listened silently.
Thinking that she was moved by her words, Zhang Dong intimately reached out and put his hand on her fragrant shoulder, but immediately realized that such a move was inappropriate. Lin Yu is now a female official next to an adult, and if she makes intimate actions by herself, once she is discovered, she can't eat and walk around.
He hurriedly put his hand back again, and continued to choose good words in front of Lin Yu, saying that he had only one purpose, hoping that Lin Yu could continue to devote himself to himself, and when he stayed with adults, he could send back some useful information to him anytime and anywhere, and if possible, it was best to say more good things for himself in front of adults.
There is no blind admiration and worship for Zhang Dong, and looking at him again, Lin Yu only feels that this is a typical selfish hypocrite, a real villain with three swords, why didn't he see it before, and still fell in love with him?
Lin Haotian wanted to support Xiaoyaomen, promote Zhang Dong as the leader of the Jin Guoxia gang, and concentrate his forces to deal with the invasion of the gold flow, but he didn't have a clue about the matter, but he let himself have an extra maid by his side, the hall master of Xiaoyaomen, Lin Yu.
No words during the day, that night.
Lin Haotian, Shao Lin and the others talked about the next itinerary slightly, and then, their own spies came in and reported an earth-shattering event to Lin Haotian.
It turned out that after the Jin army captured Chidu and Liuhe, it was not in a hurry to go south to capture the rest of the counties in Chidi, but to take a big rest in Liuhe, and by the way replenish new troops, grain, grass and armaments.
Liuhe was one of the few large towns at that time, and its scale and prosperity were better than those of Zhenjiang, and even surpassed Heze, the capital of the Yan Kingdom.
Lin Haotian lived in Liuhe, the more he lived, the more he liked it, and the idea of moving the capital came to his heart, but Jin Guo had just moved the capital to Zhenjiang, if he moved the capital to Liuhe now, it would really cost the people and money, and the national strength of Jin Guo could not support it, so he could only think about it in his heart, and it was not realistic to actually do it.
After the Jin army captured the Red Kingdom, they rested in Liuhe for a month, and in this month's time, the Red Kingdom court began to operate again, but now the object of the court's allegiance has been changed to Lin Haotian.
Zeng Sheng, who was appointed as the chief inspector of Chidi, was in charge of all affairs in Chidi, and two deputy envoys of the Jin people were in place one after another, one was Wen Hao and the other was Tang Yu, both of whom were born in the old Jin people, and they were also one of Lin Haotian's most trusted ministers.
Lin Haotian's policy of governing Chidi with the Red People was very successful, and during this time, there was no chaos in Liuhe, and it returned to normal soon after it was occupied by the Jin army, at least in the feeling of the Red People, life was still the same as before, and nothing had changed because of the annexation by the Jin State.
A month later, the well-rested Jin Army began to march south, and the First Army, the Third Army, the Seventh Army, and the New Army successively drove out of the Liuhe River, and the troops were divided into four routes to attack the counties and counties of Chidi south of the Liuhe.
Lin Haotian and the Fourth Army stayed in Liuhe and did not move, in Lin Haotian's opinion, the next battle will become very easy, after all, the Red Kingdom is dead, the monarch is dead, and the defenders everywhere can no longer have a tenacious fighting spirit, and their own army can be subdued in a single walk.
In fact, it is true, even the imperial court has been subordinated to the Jin State, where will the local government and the local army go to the mantis arm as a car to resist the Jin army alone?
In less than a month, the four-way army of the Jin State has successively captured the five counties of Yihe, Gaoji, Xiaguan, Liuyang, and Baijin, so far, 16 of the 19 counties of the Red Kingdom have been in the hands of the Jin State, and finally only the three counties of Zhuyang, Hengshui, and Yankou have not been captured for the time being.
These three counties, Zhuyang is adjacent to sizing, Hengshui is adjacent to Yan, and Yankou is adjacent to Yanguo, all of which are sensitive places.
On the Jin Army, according to Lin Haotian's instructions, the First Army Corps was to attack Zhuyang County, the Third Army Corps was to attack Hengshui County, and the Hundred Battles Army stationed in Baima and Yishu Counties fought together, and the Seventh Army Corps and the New Army were to attack Yankou County.
Let's talk about the Seventh Army and the New Army, I thought that it would be easy to defeat Yankou County, like the counties that were fought before, but in fact it was the opposite.
The two armies had just entered Yankou County when they were attacked by the Yankou local army.
The Yankou Army did not ambush the main forces of the Seventh Army and the New Army. They also did not have that strength, but quietly detoured behind the two armies and sneaked up on the logistics and supplies of the Seventh Army and the New Army.
The scale of this battle was not large, and the strength of the Yankou Army was not large, but they were all elite, which caught the logistics supply teams of the two armies by surprise, and a large number of grain, grass and military materials were looted and burned.
Hearing the news, the Guanhe cavalry led a cavalry to hurry back to reinforce, but when they returned, the Yankou army had already run away.
He didn't even see the enemy's face and suffered such a big loss first, which made Guan He resentful. He then sent orders to the Seventh Army and the New Army. Take the Tingkou Castle in Yankou County directly.
Tingkou City is located in the north of Yankou County, and if the Jin army wants to go deep into the hinterland of Yankou County, it must first take Tingkou as a foothold.
According to the detectives. There are only more than 5,000 local troops in the pavilion. The Seventh Legion and the New Army numbered 200,000 men. It's easy to take down the pavilion.
In siege warfare, the Seventh Army could only play the role of cover and coercion. It was impossible to expect the hoplites to rush to the city walls to storm the city, and the task of attacking head-on naturally fell to the new army.
Since its establishment, the new army has been in the midst of conquest, and it has been extremely experienced in combat, and it is certainly not a problem to take a small town defended by 5,000 men.
Liu Zhang only sent two corps to fight, and in his opinion, this was enough, and it was impossible for the defenders to resist the onslaught of his 20,000 soldiers.
But in the end, he was wrong, and after the war began, it was far from going as smoothly as he imagined.
The resistance of the 5,000 defenders was extremely tenacious and fierce, and the two corps of the Jin Army fought in a wave, were repulsed in a wave, and continued to charge for several rounds, but in the end they all returned in vain, and there were many casualties themselves.
Faced with such a situation, Liu Zhang was quite surprised, but it was too late to fight, so he could only order the troops to be withdrawn and wait until tomorrow to fight again.
Back in the barracks, he had just entered the Zhongjun tent, and his butt was so hot that Guan He came to the door angrily.
Guan He was very dissatisfied with the siege of the new army today, and the dignified Central Army Corps could not defeat a small city garrisoned by only 5,000 local troops.
In the tent of the Chinese army, Guan He, in front of the generals of the new army, pointed at Liu Zhang's nose and shouted angrily: "What kind of bullshit battle are you fighting today? You can't even fight a small city of 5,000 people, how can you be the commander of this army?"
Don't look at Guan He is a red man, and now there is no official reinstatement, but his qualifications in the army are much older than Liu Zhang, he owes his body and smiles: "General Guan, in today's battle, I did make a mistake, General Guan also extinguished the fire, please sit down!"
"How can you sit still now?" Guan He is fiery temper, coming and going quickly, he pinched his waist with both hands, paced back and forth in the big tent, shook his head and said indignantly: "Since entering Yankou County, our army has not been smooth, now the logistics team has been attacked, and now the attack is blocked, isn't this a joke for the First Army and the Third Army to see us?"
"Yes, yes, yes! General Guan is right!" Liu Zhang nodded repeatedly.
In fact, he didn't take down the pavilion, he was also very depressed, and he felt even more puzzled, incredible, 20,000 against 10,000, the Jin army against the Red Army, the Chinese Army against the local army, regardless of the strength and combat power, their own side has an absolute advantage, how can it not be defeated?
He turned his eyes to the two commanders of the 7th and 8th Corps, who were attacking today, and asked, "General Mao and General Gong, when you two were commanding the siege of the city, did you think that the defenders in the city were really 5,000 people?"
Hearing his question, Guan He stopped, and looked at Mao Yi, the commander of the Seventh Corps of the New Army, and Gong Dan, the commander of the Eighth Corps, without blinking.
Mao Yi's face was full of shame, he lowered his head, and whispered: "The defenders are indeed only a few thousand people, but ...... But ......"
"But what? Finish in one go!" Liu Zhang said in a deep voice.
"However, there are many underworld warriors among the defenders. Mao Yi said in a low voice.
As soon as his words fell, Gong Dan immediately continued: "Yes, among the defenders, there are many underworld warriors wearing red army armor, the specific number is not clear, but there are definitely not a few, these underworld warriors are extremely powerful, even if our soldiers finally rushed to the city, they were quickly beaten down......
"This is not an excuse for you to wait for the battle to be disadvantaged!" Guan He snorted coldly beside him.
Mao Yi and Gong were red on one side, and their heads hung lower. He said in a trembling voice: "The last general is not in a good position, and I ask the general to punish him." β
Liu Zhang waved his hand, the battle has already been fought like this, what is the use of punishing them again.
He pondered for a moment, turned his head to look at Guan He, and asked, "General Guan still remembers, when he was in Liuhe, the lord seems to have mentioned that the chivalrous people from all over the country have gathered in Yankou County. β
Guan He blinked, frowning and trying to remember. After a while. He said ambiguously: "It seems...... Liu Zhang, do you think there are chivalrous warriors among the defenders in the city?"
"There can only be this one explanation, otherwise, where will those many underworld warriors come from?" Liu Zhangyu said, "It seems." The news that the adults got was true. Yankou County ...... I'm afraid it's not as easy to fight as we imagined!"
He was worried. But Guan He grinned and said, "If that's the case, then it's a good thing." β
"How?"
"Adults have always hated chivalry. If Yankou County really gathers many knights from all over the world, then it is a great opportunity for you and me to make meritorious contributions. Guan He's eyes rolled, and he couldn't close his mouth with joy.
"Tomorrow, I will go into battle myself, but I want to see how many knights there are in the defenders of the city. Guan He suddenly became scrappy and said with great interest.
Bai Die and Zhou Yan both nodded and said to Liu Zhang: "General, tomorrow the two of us will also fight with General Guan!"
Liu Zhang did not refuse, a small city at Tingkou, it is enough to be ashamed that it was not fought on the first day, if it cannot be fought again on the second day, the morale of the soldiers of the whole army will be greatly affected, so tomorrow's siege battle can only succeed, and it will never be allowed to fail again.
Thinking of this, he cheered up and said: "Except for the Seventh and Eighth Corps, the rest of the Corps will all go out tomorrow to fight! The First and Second Corps will mainly attack the north city of Tingkou, the third and fourth corps will mainly attack the south city of Tingkou, the fifth and sixth corps will mainly attack the west city, and the ninth and tenth corps will mainly attack the east city. Tomorrow, all the generals must work together to take the pavilion in one go!"
"Yes!" all the generals stood up in unison and intervened to receive orders.
However, before the new army could fight tomorrow, that night, late at night, the Red Army in Tingkou sent a small group of elites to attack the eastern camp of the Jin army.
The new army and the seventh army were infantry regiments and the other cavalry regiments, and the camps were not combined, but were camped separately, with the new army camps in front and the seventh army camps in the back.
The Red Army that stole the camp was only 200 people, and it was the camp of the New Army that they attacked.
Relying on their familiarity with the terrain and the lack of precautions of the Jin army, the Red Army successfully infiltrated the camp and burned the grain depot located in the eastern camp of the new army.
In this fire, the flames rose more than 10 meters high, and the eastern camp of the new army was red.
After receiving the report from the soldiers below, Liu Zhang didn't even wear armor, and hurriedly ran out of the sleeping tent, and went outside to take a look.
Liu Zhang inhaled and asked the soldier who reported the news urgently: "Where is the fire?"
"Yes...... It's the granary of our army!"
"Ah?" Liu Zhang's head buzzed after hearing this, the logistics team had been attacked before, and his own grain and grass had not been replenished in time, if the grain depot of the army was burned down again, his own side would have to run out of food, so what would the 100,000 soldiers of the whole army eat next?
At this time, Liu Zhang's eyes were also red, pushed away the soldiers who reported the news, untied a war horse outside the dormitory, rode up, urged the war horse, and rushed towards Dongying.
The guards around them were startled and shouted, "General, be careful, General, slow down!" and shouted, they shook off their legs and chased after them.
Liu Zhang didn't care if the guards behind him followed, and urged the war horse to gallop wildly. After a short time, he ran to the place where the fire broke out in Dongying, sat on his horse and looked up, the huge grain depot has now become a sea of fire, there are countless Jin troops around him pouring water to extinguish the fire, and there are many soldiers desperately trying to rescue food from the sea of fire, shouting everywhere.
Seeing this, Liu Zhang was also dumbfounded, how could an enemy army of only 5,000 dare to come and attack his own 100,000 people's military camp, and how could the Red Army in Yankou County be so powerful?
He urged his horse to rush into the crowd and shouted to the surrounding Jin soldiers: "Fight the fire! Hurry up and put out the fire! Who knows where the enemy troops who are stealing the camp are now?"
"Return to the general, the enemy has already run away!"
"Where to run......
Before he finished speaking, suddenly, swish, swish, swish, more than a dozen crossbow arrows suddenly flew from him in front of him, left and right.
This change came so suddenly, no one could have imagined that someone in the crowd of soldiers of the Jin Army would shoot cold arrows at Liu Zhang.
If Liu Zhang was wary at this time, no matter how many crossbow arrows he shot, he might not be able to hurt him, but now his mind was on the burning grain and grass, how could he have imagined that there would be enemies lurking among his soldiers.
With the muffled sound of pounce, pounce, and pounce several arrows entering the flesh, Liu Zhang screamed in pain and fell off his horse.
Liu Zhang's body was hit by several arrows, planted the war horse, but the surrounding Jin army soldiers were scared to the soul, people rushed up, surrounded Liu Zhang's group of arrows, at this time look at him, chest, lower abdomen, back are inserted with crossbow arrows, white clothes instantly turned into red bloody clothes.
"Generalβ" All the soldiers shouted in unison.
At this time, the crowd of Jin soldiers around him became more chaotic, and there were shouts of Jin soldiers everywhere: "Assassin!
In the midst of the loud noise, three men in the uniforms of the Jin Army were covered in blood and rushed straight towards the place where Liu Zhang was. (To be continued......)