Chapter 40 Troubled Times: A Letter from a Family Worth Ten Thousand Dollars
The blood-colored remnant sun is gradually disappearing, the two sides are facing each other to the death, neither side retreats, and no party rushes to kill, the floating corpses at the confluence of the two rivers outside Wugang City are enough to cut off the river, the stares of the two tigers face each other, no one is willing to leave the battlefield first, the yin wind of the end begins to howl, it is awakening the dead soul.
"General, it's not a way to go on like this, the soldiers of Wugang rushed to kill like crazy, and they didn't spare their lives at all, at least nearly a thousand corpses have been thrown in the water since the morning, and we have lost more than 300 people." As the deputy general of the Tianshu Battalion, Lu Ping has the obligation to remind Jin Qian.
Jin Qian didn't know that it was not cost-effective to fight so hard, but the defenders of Wugang bit themselves like mad dogs, and did not give themselves any respite, this was the first time that the Tianshu battalion fought independently, and there would be no assistance in the main camp, and he had fought with Meng Yan before he set off, and he must have taken Wugang within half a month, but now the situation of the soldiers of Wugang has exceeded his expectations.
Tianshu battalion is the existence of the entire Bai Ze army second only to the shaking light battalion, even the status of the Kaiyang battalion of the whole cavalry is also under the Tianshu battalion, when the two battalions of Tianshu and Kaiyang had friction during the battle of Linwu, Meng Yan also showed his preference for the Tianshu battalion, Jin Qian understood that Yu Geng was dissatisfied with himself, after the battle of Linwu, there were many conflicts between the two battalions, and finally Meng Yan had to come forward to control the situation, if Wugang couldn't take his own shame, the entire Tianshu battalion would be ridiculed, Zhuo Bailing, who was also a general, talked to him privately, It is hoped that he will take Wugang within ten days and then go to Baoqing City to make peace, looking at the situation, the soldiers of the Ling Dynasty in Wugang plan to defend it to the death.
"General Lu, what is the origin of the Wugang Guard Quartz?" Jin Qian thought to himself that since the strong attack was ineffective, it was better to think of other ways.
"Quartz, born in a poor family, he was still the commander of Ma Tong's pro-army during the first Battle of Lingling, and Cao Li asked him to garrison Wugang after taking over the Shaoling Assassin History, and he has no good impression of us." Lu Ping knew what Jin Qian wanted to do, although Quartz was from a poor family, but Ma Tong had the grace of knowing him, after Ma Tong was assassinated by the King of Zhanchuan County, Quartz once said that he would set foot in the south and capture Xiao Yu alive to avenge Ma Tong, so it was basically impossible to make a fuss about it.
"General Lu, how sure are you if you sneak attack?" If it's useless to surrender, then you can only fight in another way, and no one can stand it after a long time.
Lu Ping shook his head, "The general can't work, Wugang City is facing water on three sides, one side is backed by a mountain, a natural fortress, and the physical strength of the soldiers has been exhausted before we climb the mountain, where is there still a sneak attack?" ”
"Three sides of the water? There are a lot of sailors under Ye Shuai's command, General Lu, you go back to the camp and ask Ye Shuai to allocate 300 sailors. ”
Lu Ping rolled his eyes and said in his heart: "You swore that you could take Wugang, and now you go to the camp to ask for help but let me go, you are really good at being a man." "But in order to kill fewer people, go to it, who makes himself just a lieutenant general.
As soon as Lu Ping and the guards came out of the camp, a group of soldiers came from the northeast, and the guards suddenly became nervous, and only let down their guard after seeing clearly, this is the white armor and red robe of Bai Zejun, but which battalion is this How did the people from this battalion look so lazy.
Coming from the northeast, about 500 people, must have come from the direction of the big camp, although lazy and lazy, but the armor and weapons are not like a defeat, with Lu Ping urging the horse to prepare to find out the situation.
"This is the important place of the Tianshu camp, dare to ask which battalion the brothers belong to?" Lu Ping immediately blocked the front with a horizontal knife.
At this time, a woman wearing an armor and sword flashed out of the crowd and said with some dissatisfaction: "Su Qing, the captain of the Yuheng battalion, came to support on the orders of Shaochuan County. ”
Lu Ping was stunned, first, the woman is the first time to see this, although the southern woman is still martial, but it is impossible to go out of the boudoir to join the army, most of the women who practice martial arts are ultimately to the maid of the family, this woman has a good image and temperament, and she is not like a maid but like a young lady of which family, and she is ready to go back to the camp for help, but looking at the situation, the camp seems to have expected the predicament of Wugang, and who is this Su Qing? I've never heard of this person!
"Captain Su, it's not that you suspect anything, it's just that the battlefield is dangerous, and I ask Captain Su to prove it." Lu Ping looked embarrassed.
The woman named Su Qing was not angry because of Lu Ping's embarrassment, but saw her untie a token from her waist and throw it to Lu Ping.
After Lu Ping took the token, he only glanced at it, then immediately dismounted, knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "I have seen the general's envoy!" ”
Su Qing is crisp pear, under her instigation, Cangshu Haoyue finally agreed to escape to the Bai Ze army together, and wanted to move forward secretly, but the clinker was discovered before it came out of Shaonanguan, and the guard naturally didn't dare to do anything to the county duchess, so he could only respectfully send it all the way to the camp, and the angry Meng Yan jumped straight to his feet.
When Meng Yan reprimanded one sentence after another, Cang Shu Haoyue suddenly had a stomachache, which frightened Meng Yan, and apologized for his sins, after eating two catties of beef, his stomach didn't hurt anymore, everyone was praising the little grandfather for his good appetite, and even the doctors said that the little grandfather was strong, and the lady was tired all the way, and she needed to rest well, so the matter of escaping was naturally left behind, and Meng Yan's treatment of the pear's behavior was to throw her to Ye Bohuai.
Just when Zhuo Baiqing was ravaging the Yuheng camp, Zhuo Baiqing reported the battle situation in Wugang, Ye Bohuai remembered that the pear was born in the Zhong family, and the kung fu on the water was naturally there, so he simply gave her a pole to Jin Qian, this kind of crazy woman produced by the Zhong family is estimated to be only Jin Qian can deal with, Ye Bohuai immediately decided to give the pear the official position of a lieutenant to send her away, and personally sent her to the camp gate, when Ye Bohuai's guards found that Ye Shuai, who had always kept the wine gourd, had forgotten the gourd in the barracks, What kind of woman is this, it makes the poisonous Ye Shuai annoyed, and the guards secretly made up their minds in their hearts that if they can hide when they see this woman in the future, they will hide, and if they can't hide, they will pretend to be dead.
When Su Qing entered the Tianshu camp to meet Jin Qian, Jin Qian's face was unhappy as if he hadn't been to the thatched house for a long time, "Captain Su, what are the instructions of the county duke?" ”
"Tut-tut, the elite of the Tianshu Battalion is worthy of its reputation, this battle is well fought!" Crisp pear mocked unceremoniously.
"Was Captain Su ordered to laugh at him?!" Jin Qian was already dissatisfied with the female commander, and he was even more angry when he heard the sour words of the pear.
"Yo Yo Yo, angry? You still have an angry face, if it weren't for the fact that the Tianshu Camp couldn't unfold the situation for a long time, I wouldn't have come over. "The mouth of the crisp pear is also unforgiving, and it is better than Zhong Roulan.
Jin Qian was so angry that he was speechless, his eyes were full of anger, and Lu Ping, who was standing on the side, hurriedly accosted: "Dare to ask Captain Su what is the best plan?" General Jin also cherished the lives of the sergeants. ”
"What I said is still reasonable, Ye Shuai said two ways, one is to sneak attack along the water, and the other is this." After saying that, she asked someone to open the box she brought.
Lu Pingyuan thought that the box was full of women's supplies and didn't pay much attention to it, but who knew that the box was full of letters.
"What is this?" Lu Ping asked.
"It's a secret weapon, see for yourselves." Su Qing pretended to be mysterious and said.
"Dare to ask Captain Su, what Ye Shuai said about a sneak attack along the water may not be so easy, Captain Su is afraid that he doesn't know the situation here." Jin Qian said in a sullen voice.
"Who said you have to use knives and guns to sneak up on the water? What do you men know other than fighting, killing, and killing? Su Qing said with a disdainful expression.
This is angry, but Jin Qian is also the commander of a battalion, and he was pointed at his nose and ridiculed by a lieutenant or a woman, is it tolerable or unbearable, Jin Qian has gathered enough strength to drive Su Qing out, at this time, he has been looking through the letters Lu Ping exclaimed: "These are all letters from the soldiers in the city?!" ”
Jin Qian suddenly forgot Su Qing's disrespectfulness, snatched the letter in Lu Ping's hand and hurriedly read it, and said happily: "With these, Wugang City will definitely be self-defeating!" ”
Crisp pear rolled her eyes, and said with a look of contempt: "The day before yesterday, Cao Li rolled up the gold and silver treasures of Baoqing City and ran away, originally they also wanted to set fire to the grain and grass in the city, fortunately, the reputation of the county prince is good, the fire was extinguished by the people in the city before it started, most of the soldiers in Wugang City are locals, and the county prince asked the families of the soldiers in Wugang City to write these letters, Ye Bohuai said let me bring the letter to you, you will use it." ”
"Then, according to Captain Su's opinion, how should we send these letters to Wugang City?" Lu Ping asked, things are good things, how to send them into the city is the key, otherwise this is a pile of waste paper.
Jin Qian also discovered the crux of the problem, looked at Su Qing suspiciously, and said, "Wouldn't it be to let the sailors brought by Captain Su enter the city to distribute, right?" ”
"They just escorted me, and I only took three people into the city and delivered a letter." Shu Li said calmly, and handed a letter hidden in his arms to Jin Qian.
Jin Qian stretched out his hand to take it, but Shuli suddenly withdrew his hand and said in a low voice: "This letter is confidential, if you two want to read it, you two have to swear!" ”
Seeing that Su Qing's expression didn't look like a joke, Jin Qian said with a straight face: "I don't care about politics, I only care about Wugang City." ”
Crisp pear turned her head to look at Lu Ping, only to see Lu Ping smiling bitterly: "I was originally from the county guard, what else?" ”
Crisp pear then unfolded the letter, I don't know if I see that both of them want to take off their heads and wash them and forget about it, the content of this letter is related to the real cause of Ma Tong's death, Ma Tong's death was not killed in the assassination of the south, but was murdered by the deputy general Duan Wan, this letter was written by Xu Shaoting to Duan Wan, when the army received Baoqing City, it was found in an old Migli in the old military camp, the old military camp was the place where Duan Wan was stationed when he retreated to Shaoling, and Cao Li came and abandoned it directly, If it weren't for Zhuo Baiqing's curiosity about this letter, he would never see the light of day, and Jin Qian and Lu Ping's headache was not how Ma Tong died, but a headache A person involved in this did not appear on the letter, Xiao Yu, the king of Zhanchuan County, with such a letter, no matter how stupid a person is, he can know that Xiao Yu and Xu Shaoting must have reached some kind of agreement, and the batch of burned grain and grass is more suspicious, it's not that no one has ever wondered about the guarding power of grain and grass, but everyone doesn't dare to question what Xiao Yu said, after all, Ma Tong died, and the crisis of Yinqing Road was lifted.
"Want to forget? It's too late. "Crisp pear looks like a success.
"Then there is Captain Lao Su, and I will fully cooperate with the matter of entering the city." Jin Qian decided to forget about this matter, and it was a matter of who had the courage to say it when the king of the dynasty was the king.
"I have brought five hundred sergeants who are familiar with water and handed them over to General Jin's command, and I need a smooth waterway tonight, just one hour." The pear is not ambiguous, although she practices martial arts, Zhong Roulan has also taught her the "trick of avoiding water", but her talent is average, and she can't breathe underwater for a long time, and she needs to ventilate halfway, so she must ensure that the waterway she walks is smooth.
"Is Captain Su sure? There will be no shortage of ambushes in the Water Gate. Lu Ping was still a little worried.
"So I need your time to get a chance to sneak in, by the way, get me a few military uniforms on the other side." Crisp pear is colored.
Jin Qian changed the regular style of the past, the soldiers of the entire Tianshu battalion were concentrated at the north gate to prepare for the night battle, Quartz looked tired, his eyes were bloodshot, he was a little happy to look at the army gathered under the city, he thought that Jin Qian was in a hurry, and said with a little excitement: "Go and transfer the soldiers from the east and west water gates, and you may be able to decide the outcome tonight." ”
Jin Qian under the city doesn't seem to be in a hurry, slowly gathering soldiers, slowly burying the pot to make rice, and even the people on the city wall can smell the smell of meat, it's too excessive, Lao Tzu eats chaff vegetables on the city, you still eat meat, when Lao Tzu is grass to step on casually? ! One by one, they are ready to take down the shameless gang under the city in one fell swoop.
"Ready?" Jin Qian asked lightly.
"It's already gone." Lu Ping hurriedly replied.
Jin Qian stood up, walked outside the tent, looked at the city tower opposite and said silently: "Then attack, remember, save your life, let the archers and pikemen go first, and the next few days may be your own brothers." ”