Section 20 The Price of Blood
It was a cold autumn morning, and the dew on the ground condensed into ice picks, and the ground was white as far as the eye could see. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The morning sun was still hiding in the clouds, and the leader of the thief army, known as the king of Hanoi, beat the war drums loudly, as if he wanted to annihilate our Yong army in one fell swoop!
The thieves have 50,000 elite soldiers, and our Yongjun army has 40,000, but they are not elite soldiers!
At the beginning, I boasted to Da Shan Yu that I brought 30,000 elite soldiers, but in fact, I was fooling him, not to say that, how could Da Shan Yu let me go! This Wang Zhe and Ying Tianci were more picky, and they were only willing to give me 30,000 troops at all, and it is said that they even sent people to take away all the elite soldiers! I understand why they did this, because they knew that this army was going to die, so they just made up a number, so why let those elites go with me to the funeral! They are in such a state of mind, they never expected me to come back alive, wishing I had died here sooner!
The thieves are powerful and have a complete advantage!
We can't say that we are old and weak, but apart from Han Cheng, there are no good generals in the army! Of course, I also have a very good fighter, but he is not a general!
Leading the army to fight and fighting alone are completely different things, a general does not need to lead the army himself, as long as he commands well, the army can be invincible, and can also turn decay into magic!
If I am a good commander, even if they give me such a mediocre army, I can still be victorious! But the reality is that I have never led a soldier, but I have led an army of Yin soldiers, and I don't need to command it specifically!
The two armies are facing each other and don't give in to each other, but I don't know how to fight next, and I don't have any experience at all!
The other party's thieves are very arrogant, the war drums have been beating for more than an hour, and they are still beating non-stop, which is really annoying to hear!
The drums of war suddenly stopped, and there was silence all around, except for the cold wind whistling.
The king of thieves is a middle-aged man, this guy obviously just claims to be the king of Hanoi, but he is wearing a dragon robe, which is really contradictory and inexplicable!
The king of thieves rode forward very arrogantly and said loudly to me from afar: "The child in front of the army is His Royal Highness the Prince of Dayong?"
Hearing him call my name, I immediately rode up a few steps and stopped ten meters away from him!
I looked him up and down, and then replied to him, "I am the great lieutenant Ying Jue, but your Excellency is Zuo Tianhua, the king of Hanoi?"
The King of Thieves smiled and said, "It is me, I heard that the Yong army is led by the little prince, and it is really just a child. You are also from the Great Qin people, why do you want to work for the Huns?"
I looked at him slightly, and said unhurriedly: "I am a citizen of Great Qin, and I will always be loyal to the Great Qin country, what do I have to do with the Huns?"
The King of Thieves laughed and said, "In that case, why doesn't His Royal Highness the Prince lead the crowd to conspire with us in great things?"
I nodded, pretended to think for a while, and then replied, "This is reasonable, now that the king of Hanoi has gone to Yingchuan and Dong County, and Hanoi is in danger, I don't know what the prince plans to do about this?"
The king of thieves smiled and said: "These three places are all small counties, and it is not a pity to miss them! Our elite soldiers and strong generals will be hoarded in Luoyang, and they will soon go straight to Guanzhong to point to Xianyang! When I take Xianyang and live Dadanyu, I can recover my Great Qinhe Mountain!"
...... , I was stunned for a long time, this person's mind is still quite big, and then I said: "But Da Shan Yu is not in Xianyang, at this moment he should go to Hanoi with Li Chengzu's army!"
The king of thieves laughed and said: "This is very good, then Xianyang will be just around the corner, and then all the beauties and property in the palace will belong to you and me, and our glory and wealth should be inexhaustible!"
After saying that, the king of thieves laughed very proudly, and he looked as if he had already obtained the whole world!
The first thing that comes to mind when you take down Xianyang is women and money, how can such a guy who is greedy for pleasure get the world! Just thinking about robbing Xianyang's women and money, you are really a veritable thief! At present, it is difficult to say whether you can save your own life or not, and you still want to enter Guanzhong, this is an arrogant guy!
I asked him again, "Although Yingchuan, Dong County, and Hanoi are all small counties, but there are also countless people of the Great Qin, what should I do if the three places fall to all the people?"
The king of thieves sneered: "This kind of pariahs is useless, it doesn't matter what he does, as long as you and I can be prosperous and rich!"
Trough, another guy who doesn't care about the lives of the people, I really think it's strange, how can so many people follow him to rebel against such a virtuous slut?
Has it been that the people have reached the point where they can no longer bear it and are panicked and do not choose their masters? As long as they can lead the rebellion, they don't care who is the leader?
At this time, the king of thieves interrupted my train of thought and said to me again: "What is your Royal Highness thinking about it, and would you like to join my Hanoi army?"
I smiled slightly, stretched out my hand and clenched my fists and said: "I am the royal family of the Ying clan, how can I be in the company of thieves who plundered the property of beautiful women and disregarded the lives of all people!
The king of thieves sneered: "If the strong man does not die, he will become famous when he dies, and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning, and when I seize Xianyang, I will also be a royal family!"
...... Isn't this sentence said by Chen Sheng during the Dazexiang uprising? Why has it become his Zuo Tianhua line in this world?
Ignoring this for now, I continued to say to him: "The army of Nanyang has invaded Hanoi, and it will soon take Hanoi and march westward! Luoyang is the land of projectiles, and it will be annihilated in a snap of a finger. Otherwise, when Luoyang City is broken, it will be difficult to fly, and no one will think that they will survive!"
The king of thieves was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and after a little hesitation, he rebuked me angrily with a thief's heart: "Becoming a king and defeating a thief in this move, how can we be greedy for life and afraid of death! The battle of words is meaningless, since His Royal Highness the prince is unwilling to conspire with great things, then we will fight in formation, and leave!"
After saying that, he turned around and left, without any intention of giving up.
A man who has turned from an ordinary peasant into an anti-king only thinks about his dream of being an emperor, how could he easily give up the throne that he had so hard to get! I can understand why he is so stubborn, and I admire him for being able to make such a big formation, but I will never forgive him for his stupidity and selfishness!
The sunlight finally came out of the cracks in the clouds, the earth became slightly warmer, and the two armies lined up neatly in the sun, and a big war was about to break out!
After Han Cheng finished reviewing the team, he rode his horse and galloped to my side, and asked me to say, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, please move to the rear army, and wait for the last general to lead the troops to attack, and never turn back if you don't capture the king of thieves!"
I remained silent, my eyes silently staring at the thief army on the other side, and my head began to think about other things!
Han Cheng saw that I hadn't spoken, so he hurriedly urged: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, without further ado, please move to the rear army quickly!"
I turned my head and asked him, "What? General Han means that I am a burden to the army and need to run to the rear army to hide?"
Han Cheng immediately bowed his head and saluted, arching his hand and saying, "The last general did not mean this, His Royal Highness the Prince is the commander of an army, and there must be no mistakes!"
I stretched out my hand and pulled the reins, turned my horse's head, and said, "Give me the order, the whole army will retreat, and camp at the foot of the mountain thirty miles to the south!"
"What?", Han Cheng was shocked and hurriedly asked, "Withdraw the troops?" His Royal Highness the Prince, this is ......?"
Zhang Tietang suddenly said, "General Han, why don't you hurry up and give an order?"
Han Cheng looked at Zhang Tiedan, then sighed, and went to give the order very disappointed!
At this most critical time, I need to be very careful every step I take, and without a certain certainty, I must not take risks with luck!
The idea of withdrawing was made on the spur of the day, because I didn't feel the need to fight the thieves here! Any loss of the army would be a waste to me, and I would feel completely unnecessary even if I sacrificed a single soldier!
Under the command of Han Cheng, the army withdrew from the battlefield in an orderly manner, and the thief army on the opposite side began to wave their flags and shout frantically when they saw it, very arrogant!
Very good, that's what I want, so be proud of yourself!
Han Cheng didn't understand it very much, he followed him silently along the way, looking very depressed!
I ignored him and continued to retreat south with the army! Finally, the army was stationed at the foot of the mountain, and Han Cheng immediately went to arrange the surrounding defenses!
At night, I ordered someone to call Han Cheng, who was patrolling outside, into the camp tent, and then called him to sit down and discuss with him.
There was a piece of parchment on the table, on which were painted dense patterns, this picture was drawn by me overnight, this is one of the Xuanmen Dunjia Arrays.
When Han Cheng saw the picture on the table, he was very surprised, he hurriedly knelt down at the table, staring at the picture on the table and looking at it carefully.
After a long time, Han Cheng shook his head violently and said, "I don't understand, Your Royal Highness the Prince, what is this picture and what is the use?"
I smiled and asked, "General Han is a general, can you know the formation?"
Han Cheng was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then lowered his head sharply and looked at the formation diagram on the table carefully, and after a long time, he still shook his head and said: "The last general knows all kinds of formations throughout the ages, but he has never seen the formation in the picture, I don't know what the mystery of this array is, and I hope that His Royal Highness the Prince can guide the maze!"
I smiled and said: "This formation is called the Wind Array, which is completely different from the usual formation, and it is not a formation of troops, this is the formation of Qimen Dunjia!"
"Qimen Dunjia Array?", Han Cheng muttered, reaching out and starting to grab his hair non-stop, obviously he had never heard of such a thing!
I smiled and said, "The general doesn't need to pay attention to the meaning of this formation! The general is optimistic, this is the terrain position in front of the foot of the mountain!"
After speaking, I stretched out my hand and pointed to the area in the picture, and continued to say to him: "Please bury heavy troops on both sides of this area and set up an ambush, and no soldiers can enter the formation!"
Then I took out another piece of parchment from the side, handed it to him, and said, "Please ask the general to arrange for men to prepare such utensils overnight, and the number has been written under the picture!"
Han Cheng took the parchment and looked at it carefully, then nodded and said, "My subordinates will send someone to do it immediately!"
Then I pointed to the formation diagram and taught Han Cheng how to place those limes, copper tripods, copper furnaces and flagpoles in the array.
After my patient instructions, Han Cheng quickly remembered what to do! This guy has a very fast brain, a very good memory, and a lot of ideas.
I have always had high expectations for Han Cheng, Han Cheng showed his skills in the previous competition in Da Dan Yu's official residence, and his courage in front of Da Dan Yu was commendable, which made me think that he was a very good general!
Asking him to help me set up this Swift Wind Array is to let him first familiarize himself with the concept of the Great Wizard's Qimen Dunjia, and he also intends to teach him this formation!
Han Cheng's action is fast, the execution ability is strong, at noon the next day the wind array was set, I led Han Cheng to the formation to check the acceptance, Han Cheng was very satisfied with the work!
Then I asked Han Cheng to send someone to send a letter to the king of thieves, in which I asked the king of thieves to fight and ask him to lead his troops to attack me at the foot of the mountain! If he can defeat me, I will regard him as a mighty and invincible son of heaven, and then I will lead the army to defect to him! This is the sugar-coated cannonball I threw at him, the purpose of which is to lure him into the bait, and then use the wind array against him.
The ancients' tactics were limited, and they didn't know a lot of things, and they didn't know anything about such things as Qimen Dunjia!
Everything went very smoothly, and the king of thieves personally led an army of 50,000 to challenge as promised, and this arrogant king of thieves was defenseless, and even lined up the whole army in a group in the wind array! He thought that he had occupied the flat land in front of the foot of the mountain, and our army was surrounded in front of the foot of the mountain and had no way to escape, and this battle seemed to give him all the advantages. The King of Thieves stood at the front of the line with his head held high, and he kept laughing at me, and he looked so triumphant!
I don't have much to say to the king of thieves, I immediately took the stage to worship the sky and cast a spell to start the battle!
The Wind Array is one of the Xuanmen Dunjia formations, although I have never used it before, but I have kept in mind the key points in the formation! This is the first time I have tried to cast the Wind Array, and I don't know if it will succeed, and I am also very bottomless in my heart! However, Han Cheng has already led an army of 30,000 to ambush on the outside of the ridge, even if I fail, Han Cheng can also take an ambush to surround the thief army from the outside, and our Yong army will not be defeated at that time!
With this double insurance, I naturally seem to be very relaxed!
When the king of thieves saw me dancing on the stage and dancing with a sword, he kept chattering at me from afar, and said loudly at me: "Before the battle, the enemy should boost morale and lead the troops to set up the formation, but here you are pretending to be a god and deceiving yourself! His Royal Highness the prince led the army to the army at the age of ten, and there must be something outstanding! I originally thought that His Royal Highness the prince was a genius in the world, but unexpectedly, he was just an ignorant child, and he could only play some small tricks of carving insects! Could it be that if you did it on the stage here, my Hanoi army would have surrendered on the spot as if you were a god? It is simply extremely stupid and ridiculous!"
At this time, the incantation had been recited, and all I had to do was wave my fingers! I stood on the altar and replied loudly to the king of thieves: "Whether it is a god or not, and see if I can succeed in doing it! I am a fairy child of Fangling, and the bandits in Nanshan in the past were as arrogant as you, but I don't know that there is a fixed number in the world, how can I allow Er and other bandits to cause chaos and harm the world!"
After saying that, I swung my sword and pointed angrily at the wind array, and roared and said, "The wind rises!"
Suddenly, the wind in the formation was everywhere, the flying sand and rocks did not see the light of day, and four huge tornadoes flashed from the four corners of the formation, sucking the thief soldiers standing in the formation directly into the air, and the thief formations collapsed instantly!
The wind was so fierce, I never thought that it could be a fierce tornado, the wind was strong, and thunder and lightning sparks flashed from time to time in the whirlpool, and even I was frightened by the scene in front of me!
Stationed beside me were the remaining 10,000 troops, and the rest were taken by Han Cheng to ambush outside!
Seeing the miraculous effect of the formation and the fierce wind, more than 10,000 soldiers were terrified, and they waved their flags and shouted one after another, and their blood was boiling with excitement! Of course they were excited, seeing that this formation was like a divine power descending from heaven, which was completely beyond the scope of their understanding, and when they were fighting under the leadership of the gods, how could they not be excited!
Then there were countless shouts in the distance on the north side, this should be Han Cheng had surrounded the outside with ambush soldiers, and everything was going very smoothly!
It is my consistent style to accept when I see good, my goal has been achieved, and it is enough to shock all the thieves, so I wave my sword and point to collect the wind!
It all went so smoothly that I was naturally filled with the joy of victory.
Just when I was complacent about this, I suddenly realized that I might have made the same mistake as the last thunderstorm! Because there were many thieves, I was worried that the power of the formation was not enough, so I used the four flagpoles to summon a blast, but I didn't think about summoning a four-times tornado.
This wind-harvesting spell is also too, and only one of the tornadoes has been collected, and the other three tornadoes are still frantically sweeping the thieves, and the wind is still starting to shift constantly, and it looks like they will soon escape from the formation!
I hurriedly and quickly chanted the spell and took away the two more tornadoes, but too much time passed, and the last tornado had already left the blast array, and the crazy ultra-north side swept away!
The wind is gone, and the distance is too far away, and it is useless for me to chant a spell to stop the wind!
I was shocked when I saw this, isn't that Han Cheng and Dayong on the north side, this, this......
I hurriedly picked up my sword and ran down the altar, turned over and rode quickly to the north side!
I rode my horse through the staggered bandit positions and chased after the fleeing tornado!
When I rushed to the vicinity of the tornado to collect it, thousands of soldiers had been blown away, and the rest of the soldiers were lying on the ground screaming in pain.
My head was buzzing with thought, I didn't expect that my mistake would cause such a heavy loss to the army, and I could not easily establish the prestige in the army, but I was afraid that it would be wiped out because of this!
But this is not important, the most important thing is that thousands of Yongjun soldiers were killed by my own hands, how mediocre it is for me!
The thought of this made my blood surge, and my eyes went black, and then I lost consciousness.