Chapter 40 The sword is out of the sheath and the arrow is at the waist

When Lu Wen was sent back that day, he was already seriously injured and unconscious, although he was treated by Liu Qing's third disciple Li Jie, but because of excessive blood loss, he was still lying on the 'bed' to recuperate.

When Wang Ze went, Lu Wen had just woken up, and was about to get up when he saw Wang Ze enter the house, but was hurriedly stopped by Wang Ze, who had just entered the house.

Lu Wen sat down again with tears in his eyes, and he said: "Xiao Langjun, this time the official army came to attack very strangely, I am afraid that someone in the cottage has reported to the government, and I hope that Xiao Langjun will avenge the villagers!" ”

Wang Ze comforted: "Mr. Lu, rest assured, I have now led nearly 10,000 'elites' to come, and Sun Xing has received my urgent report later, and he will definitely come!" ”

After comforting Lu Wen again, seeing that Lu Wen was already 'fine' and exhausted, Wang Ze went out with Cheng Hu, and asked Cheng Hu as he walked: "Second brother, Brother Bo Fu has not fled to the island?" ”

Cheng Hu replied with a low face: "That day, when the eldest father and Daddy led the army to block the official army, Brother Bo Fu, Xu Zheng and Yan Xiaowu also went with the White Wolf Battalion, and there has been no news so far. ”

In the following days, Wang Ze sent scouts to Changguang County and Donglai County on the shore to inquire about the news, and at the same time took advantage of the time to wait for follow-up reinforcements to reorganize the island's young and strong.

As soon as Gongxi entered the house, he saw Wang Zezheng and Jiang Chuan, Zhou Tong and other battalion commanders, discussing the battle plan on a large map on the wall.

Since the beginning of the academy a few years ago, Wang Ze has been teaching the surveying and mapping standards of modern maps. After several years of hard work, the survey team organized by Wang Ze has now completed the survey and mapping of the coastal inland areas around the cottage and the Miaodao Islands, and is currently surveying and mapping the map around Jeju Island.

There is also latitude and longitude on the map, and the latitude is unchanged, but the longitude is based on the location of the earliest cottage as the 0 degree longitude.

According to Wang Ze's plan, in the future, the northeast will also survey and map the Baekje and Wa kingdoms, and the fleet that followed Sun Xing to the south will also have a survey team to survey the coastline and islands going south.

As soon as they saw Gongxi coming in, Zhou Tong, Jiang Chuan, and others hurriedly stood up and saluted, but Gongxi didn't care about returning the salute, and hurriedly asked Wang Ze when he was going to rescue Wang Yong.

Wang Ze comforted: "Mother rest assured, there is a scout report today, after the failure of Daddy and Second Uncle Cheng to block the Northern Qi army, Daddy led dozens of people to flee the battlefield, although there is no news so far, but I haven't heard the news that the Northern Qi army has captured Daddy, and it is safe to come." ”

Speaking of this, Wang Ze looked at his mother with some heaviness and said, "Although my father escaped, Second Uncle Cheng, who covered my father's escape, is said to have been captured by the Northern Qi army because of his serious injuries."

As soon as the Gongxi clan heard Wang Ze say that Wang Yong should have escaped, his life was fine, and he was very happy; But then he heard the news that Cheng Chong was captured by the Northern Qi people because he was covering Wang Yong, and he immediately became worried about Cheng Hu again.

She said angrily: "Since your father is fine, why don't you quickly rescue your second uncle Cheng?" Have you forgotten Second Uncle Cheng's great kindness? ”

Hearing his mother's reproach, Wang Ze said helplessly: "My mother doesn't know, Second Uncle Cheng is now in the barracks of the Northern Qi army, because the Northern Qi Lord is going to sacrifice him to the Great Qi Emperor, and he will have no worries about his life in a short time, so the child is planning well now, and ambushing them when the Northern Qi people return in order to rescue the second uncle and the thousands of villagers." ”

Only then did Gongxi know Wang Ze's plan, and understood that he had misunderstood Wang Ze, so he didn't dare to delay their deliberations, and hurried back to appease the family members.

When discussing how to use troops, Wang Ze finally realized the benefits of having a 'precise' map, and was proud of his previous wisdom.

Comparing the map on the wall at a scale of 1/50,000, after some discussion, Wang Ze and the others selected seven or eight suitable places for ambush.

During this period, from the slightly inland prefectures and counties to Muping, Weihai and other places, it was extremely inconvenient to 'communicate' by land, and the army could only march through the hilly plains near the sea in the north.

In this way, the road is also extremely remote and difficult to walk, and when Wang Yong and others operated the Muping land, because the main 'traffic' was by sea, they did not build roads at all, and as for other places, they were all mountains and forests, so they could not go at all.

You must know that when Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty went on an expedition to Goguryeo, all the timber used by the ships that crossed the sea and went east was cut from the nearby mountains, so think about it to know how well the forests in the Daze Mountains grow now.

After another two days, Zheng Kui and Qu Liulang finally led the fleet behind to catch up, and there was good news that although Sun Xing did not arrive, they met He Liang who was returning halfway. Now with the addition of He Liang's fleet, there are nearly 1,000 more people.

During this period of time, He Liang has been taking the route from Shanzhai to Goguryeo and Baekje, and it will take a month and a half to go back and forth, just in time to come back.

As soon as He Liang saw Wang Ze, he immediately said: "Xiao Langjun, I don't know when I will set off, I will listen to your arrangements." ”

Wang Ze was also satisfied with He Liang's statement, and said to him: "When I came, I led more than 6,000 people here, and in the next few days, more than 3,000 young and strong militiamen were formed, and now there are more than 10,000 people with you brought!" ”

Speaking of this, Wang Ze looked around, and said: "Today, there are scouts to report, the official army has captured thousands of my fellow villagers, more than 100,000 cattle and sheep, and they are slowly coming westward, and we will go on the expedition tomorrow!" If you don't want to go, I won't force you! ”

Many of the leaders in the hall have received Wang Yong's great kindness, and they all want to fly to Wang Yong's side immediately, of course, none of them can't say it.

"The generals will obey!" Wang Ze shouted.

All the generals in the hall stood up and clasped their fists and responded loudly: "Here!" ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, Wang Ze hereby divides all departments, and must act according to the order," Wang Ze shouted sharply, "If there is any disobedience, behead!" ”

"Du Sheng, you lead all the merchant ships to load the people and students on the island, and all the belongings will be withdrawn to Jeju Island tomorrow!" Wang Ze's first decision was to arrange for all non-combatants to be evacuated to a safe place first.

Du Sheng, who was still thinking of going ashore to participate in the battle, was stunned for a moment after hearing Wang Ze's order, and then did not dare to disobey and responded: "Obey the order!" ”

"Wait!" Wang Ze shouted to Du Sheng, who was about to go out, and said, "You have a great responsibility to go this time, in addition to sending all these old and weak 'women' and children to Jeju Island safely, you must also lead ships to Baekje countries to buy a large amount of grain as soon as possible. ”

Du Sheng's face was no longer his usual grin, and he said solemnly: "Sheng, I don't dare to forget Xiaolangjun's order!" Then he took the order and left.

Subsequently, Qu Liulang led Wang Ze to order ten sea ships to leave, and the remaining sea ships were led by He Liang to follow Wang Ze's action.

The rest of the ministries began to act under the command of Wang Ze.

On 18 June, an army of several thousand men slowly approached the west with a large number of cattle and sheep and belongings, and thousands of civilians were escorted by thousands of sergeants.

From time to time, the escorting soldiers would beat and drive the people away with their weapons, and the screams of 'women', 'women' and children could be heard from time to time in the crowd, and some corpses could be vaguely seen on both sides of the road behind them.

This is the triumphant army of the Northern Qi Dynasty, a general dressed in full body armor, surrounded by several leading generals, walking at the front of the team under the protection of hundreds of cavalry.

"Lord Duan, dozens of miles ahead is Changguang County, I'm afraid that this time those thieves are already fleeing from the wind, where do they dare to come to the rescue!" A general next to him laughed and said.

It turned out that the Northern Qi army had deliberately moved slowly for several days, but it was to attract the remnants of the cottage to rescue Cheng Chong and others.

Starting from the Muping camp, these thousands of men and horses were always ready to guard against a sneak attack, but even a few days ago when they passed through the most difficult seaside road near Long Island, no one came to sneak attack.

There are many hills and mountains on that section of the road, which is the most suitable for the ambush of the army, but thousands of soldiers and horses are nervous, and they don't see half a shadow coming along the way.

Even the captured thieves, after passing through that part of the road, began to hang their heads one by one, and no longer expected someone to save them.

"Lord Duan, after this great victory, I'm afraid that the adults will be promoted again, and I hope that the adults will bring me and other brothers more when the time comes!" Another general said with a smile on his face.

It turned out that this young Duan surnamed was Duan Yining, the favorite minister of Emperor Gao Yang of Northern Qi, and his great-grandfather Duan Chang once had a good eye for Gao Yang's father Gao Huan, and promoted him to Wei Mo, and Gao Huan also used Duan Chang's descendants a lot after his career.

In the Gao Yang period, Duan Yining's skills were not as good as those of his father's ancestors, but he was still reused by Emperor Wenxuan Gao Yang and commanded a guard army of Gao Yang.

Duan Yining thought secretly in his heart, "Fortunately, when the Qi County Taishou's recital was delivered, he was on duty in the palace and did not miss such a good opportunity to make meritorious contributions. Although his ancestors were once trusted by Gao Huan and others, he did not have the skills of his father and ancestors to lead troops to fight. ’

Listening to the compliments of the generals from the cold 'gate' around him, Duan Yining was even more proud: "What if you can fight? This time, the credit is not attributed to the master, the scholar clan and the cold 'gate' are different after all. This time, when I returned to Yecheng, I saw that Yang Su and a group of Han officials in the court dared to ridicule themselves as favored ministers. ’

The status of the Han people in the Northern Qi period has always been low, and the contradictions between the Han people and the Xianbei people have always been acute, and Gao Huan, the founder of the Northern Qi Dynasty, started by relying on the Xianbei Hu soldiers who rebelled in the six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the army and the generals under his command are basically the Xianbei people and other Hu people.

After Gao Huan defeated the Northern Wei Dynasty minister Zhu Rong and entered Luoyang, a large number of Sinicized Xianbei nobles and a large number of Han people who were officials in the Northern Wei Dynasty were wiped out by Gao Huan's troops.

When Gao Yang established the Northern Qi Dynasty, although a large number of Han high-ranking officials such as Yang Su were enabled, the army was still in the hands of the Xianbei military generals.