Chapter 456: I once dreamed of going to the end of the world with a sword
Hebei Province, Yecheng, Chengde Festival Embassy Hall. Wang Chengzong, who was barefoot, dressed in single clothes, and had a cloak on his head, gradually recovered from the initial shock, panic, and hesitation, and there was a slight chill in his eyes when he looked at Mr. Liu.
He and Mr. Liu are allies, but in fact, they have their own ghosts, and all kinds of thoughts and conspiracies have never been broken, in essence, the contradictions between Lu Long and Chengde, Mr. Liu and his Wang Chengzong are impossible to reconcile.
He has never given up the idea of killing Mr. Liu, and Wang Chengzong knows that Mr. Liu has definitely never given up the idea of annexing himself.
The reason why the two sides are holding together is because of the huge pressure given by the imperial court. The reason why the two sides were able to discuss and defend themselves against the enemy in a relatively peaceful state, rather than stabbing the opponent with a knife, was also based on the fact that the strength of the two sides was roughly equal.
Mr. Liu's troops are more and his territory is larger, but his troops are more scattered, on the contrary, although Chengde is slightly weaker in terms of troops, he has the strongest Yecheng in the whole of Hebei.
And now that balance has been upset. As the imperial court saw the dagger, a wave annihilated the last strength he had accumulated, and Mr. Liu's strength increased instead of decreasing.
In this case, if he doesn't kill Mr. Liu first, then I'm afraid I won't have the opportunity to wait for the court thunder trial.
Wang Chengzong didn't know why Mr. Liu would return to Yecheng at this time, instead of sitting in Youzhou as planned.
But it doesn't matter. The important thing is that Mr. Liu is in Yecheng at this moment, on his own territory. Although his hundreds of thousands of troops were wiped out, if he really started, Lu Long could beat his own Chengde without knowing his mother.
Could it be that on his own territory, he can't take down Mr. Liu and a few guards? Some things have to be spoken of by strength after all!
Unconsciously, Wang Chengzong's fists were clenched, but his face did not change, but he began to patiently explain the changes in the west in detail for Mr. Liu, and at the same time began to give gestures to the relatives beside him.
“…… Henan, Zhenzhou, and Yanzhou are all suspicious ......, and the real goal of the imperial court is Zhaoyi! ”
"Zhaoyi?!"
"There are not only 30,000 cavalry prepared by the imperial court, in addition to the cavalry that entered Yanzhou from Ulzhou, there are at least 20,000 cavalry marching towards Zhaoyi from the jurisdiction of the Hedong and Hezhong envoys......
"You know that although Lu Congshi took Zhaoyi by scheming and purging it, the entire Zhaoyi is still devoted to the imperial court in less than six days, and the entire Zhaoyi ......" Hearing the word Zhaoyi, Mr. Liu was completely stunned on the spot, but Wang Chengzong's voice did not stop, and continued to talk endlessly, and at the same time, with the help of Mr. Liu's stunned opportunity, he observed Mr. Liu's changes without leaving a trace.
Wang Chengzong said endlessly, but Mr. Liu almost didn't listen to a word, because he had directly entered his own state.
Compared with Wang Chengzong, who is better at internal affairs, Liu Zong, who is better at military affairs and kills his brother and father, is better at military affairs and conspiracy.
Therefore, the moment he heard the words Zhaoyi, Mr. Liu understood the sinister intentions of Guo Rong's entire series of strategies.
Once, Zhaoyi was also the focus of Wang Chengzong and Mr. Liu, after all, Zhaoyi, who had 100,000 troops, was not a soft persimmon.
However, Lu Congshi is not an existence who is willing to give up his right to be an Le Gong, which makes them believe that Lu Congshi will not surrender to the court easily.
As a result, with the continuous changes of time and the war situation, Zhaoyi, who had been silent, was gradually ignored by them.
Now that Zhaoyi is gone, it means that Zhaozhou, the important town of Chengde, will face the soldiers of the imperial court. The problem is that in order to completely encircle and annihilate the Hedong Army advancing eastward, Wang Chengzong has put the main forces of Chengde, including Zhaozhou, between Zhenzhou and Dingzhou to the north of Zhaozhou, and Zhaozhou at this moment is almost an empty city as the rear.
With the intention of calculating without intention, and with the intention of calculating unintentionally, the fall of Zhaozhou has become a foregone conclusion. Zhaozhou itself has nothing to say, but in the Zhenzhou area north of Zhaozhou, the remaining 200,000 elites of the Chengde army are preparing to encircle and annihilate the Hedong army advancing eastward.
At first glance, it seems that the 200,000 Cheng German troops surrounded less than 100,000 Hedong Army, and the advantage was mine. However, if the scale of the battlefield is extended from Zhenzhou to the whole of Hebei, it will be different.
30,000 elite court cavalry unknowingly broke into Yanzhou, broke into Lulong, and wreaked havoc in their own place.
However, by the time his army returned to Lulong, the 30,000-strong court cavalry had disappeared without a trace, leaving behind the idiots who had been encouraged to fight the family.
At that time, Mr. Liu, who was proud of the spring breeze, didn't care, but now, Mr. Liu felt a shudder.
Mr. Liu just made a bet with anyone that if the 30,000 cavalry hadn't turned around and came to Zhenzhou, there would have been ghosts.
Now, with the fall of Zhaozhou, the imperial court soldiers and horses who went north from Zhaoyi could quickly go north and be thrown into the battlefield near Zhenzhou.
Again, at first glance, 200,000 Chengde elites surrounded the Hedong Army, but after zooming in, you will find that it is the south, middle, and north directions, and the last elite of the Chengde Army has fallen into a heavy encirclement.
The situation on the entire battlefield will be fundamentally reversed! 200,000 Chengde elites plus more than 100,000 forcibly conscripted strong men who were responsible for transporting grain and grass and waving flags and shouting, against 60,000 Hedong infantry soldiers plus 50,000 elite cavalry.
At first glance, the advantage is still mine, but there is no need for Wang Chengzong to tell himself the result, Mr. Liu already feels hopeless!
On a frontal battlefield, hoplites were not afraid of cavalry, but in the absence of both mental and defensive preparations, this was a disaster.
Mr. Liu calculated this in his heart, and Wang Chengzong also happened to tell about this.
"Last night, the soldiers and horses preparing to attack between Zhenzhou and Dingzhou were almost wiped out, and the defenders left behind in Zhenzhou City surrendered directly, and An Qingkun led more than 1,000 remnants of soldiers to hide in Dingzhou City...... Although he had already made a guess, when he got a positive answer from Wang Chengzong's mouth, Mr. Liu still felt that he was dizzy.
Vertigo ...... Mr. Liu felt that he saw that one military tent after another had been ignited and was burning...... Mr. Liu felt that he had seen one after another soldiers of the Hebei Army turned into living people, screaming and wailing in the raging fire...... Mr. Liu felt that he had seen teams of elite cavalrymen armed with spears, spears, and horse lances rampaging through the burning camp...... Mr. Liu felt that he had seen hundreds of thousands of troops completely wiped out overnight...... In the two decisive battles in the south of the river, Wei Bo's army was almost wiped out, Chengde and Lu Long lost half, and then he and Wang Chengzong put their remaining elites in Yecheng, hoping to look down on the soldiers of the Zhu court with the high and deep Yecheng.
If these 200,000 elites are stationed in Yecheng and the defense system throughout Jizhou, let alone 50,000 cavalry, even fifty will not be so easy to take.
Now, however, in the wild, it may be a night at the earliest...... Thinking that Wang Chengzong's people had been completely wiped out, the greedy nature suddenly came to mind, and a thought suddenly flashed in Mr. Liu's mind: Do you want to take advantage of the current opportunity to do Wang Chengzong, take Yecheng directly, and directly take over Chengde in the name of the alliance!
However, this idea existed for only a moment, and it was canceled by Mr. Liu himself. With mental calculations or unintentional, it is not difficult to kill Wang Chengzong, but Wang Chengzong has been wiped out, and his main forces have been transferred from Yecheng to Lulong, and he will not be able to return in a short time.
It is impossible to maintain the huge defense system of Yecheng-Jizhou and the stability of the huge Chengde just by protecting the thousands of protectors who have returned to Yecheng.
Not to mention anything else, even the greedy, selfish, and bloodthirsty tyrants and gatekeepers who rebelled and rebelled in Chengde were enough to devour themselves alive.
Hey, it's a pity it's not your own territory! Remorse to remorse, helplessness to helplessness, pondering for a long time, Mr. Liu found that not only could he not do anything to Wang Chengzong, but on the contrary, he also needed to give him a certain degree of support, just as he and Wang Chengzong had done to Tian Ji'an.
When he finished thinking and determined his train of thought, Mr. Liu raised his head and looked at Wang Chengzong beside him seriously.
At this time, Wang Chengzong had already put on a set of clothes, put on his shoes, and his hair was simply combed, not as embarrassed as when he first entered.
However, when Mr. Liu's gaze shifted from Wang Chengzong's body to his face, Mr. Liu's back instantly chilled.
Because he felt full of undisguised malice in Wang Chengzong's eyes when he looked at him.
This is under the discouragement of all thoughts, does Wang Chengzong want to pull himself as a backstop? Subconsciously glanced to the side with the corner of his eye, I don't know when, there were already a few more sergeants wearing heavy armor and holding long and short soldiers inside and outside the hall.
These men had no tendency to do anything to themselves, but they were enough to isolate themselves from the guards outside the hall.
Wang Chengzong is going to do it to himself, which is beyond doubt. Immediately, Mr. Liu's brain began to spin rapidly, trying to find a way out for himself.
However, after careful consideration, Mr. Liu found that the current situation seemed to have nothing to do except to be restrained.
How could a person like him be so honestly tied up and leave his fate in the hands of others!
Otherwise, with his identity as the second son, how could he become the envoy of the Lulong Festival who dominates Hebei! can't beat it, can't run it, and he is on Wang Chengzong's territory, Mr. Liu found himself in a state of being slaughtered by others all of a sudden.
It's just that what kind of person is Mr. Liu, that is a peerless ruthless man who killed his brother and killed his father! Even if it's a mortal situation, he has to play a game.
Inadvertently, Mr. Liu's eyes glanced at the sword at his waist, and his brows furrowed tightly...... When he was young and frivolous, Mr. Liu also had the idea of going to the end of the world with a sword and taking a look at the prosperity of the world.
However, with the passage of time, the increase of experience, and the change of ideas, Mr. Liu's dream has long been lost without a trace, and his once hot heart has become cold and cruel, only the sword is still hanging from his waist.
It's just that although the sword is still there, it hasn't been unsheathed for a long time, and I don't know if it will become a weapon for my desperate survival today.
There was no hesitation when killing siblings, beloved relatives and friends, and Wang Chengzong, who killed a potential threat, probably didn't even need to add money.
After confirming his decision, Mr. Liu's cold eyes flashed with a trace of excitement that was not easy to be noticed.
Immediately afterwards, Mr. Liu's frowning brows suddenly relaxed, and he suddenly became enlightened after thinking hard, and shouted in an excited manner.
"Brother Chengzong, we haven't lost yet!" While exclaiming, at the same time, Mr. Liu silently moved half a step towards Wang Chengzong's position.
From the moment he decided to make a move on Mr. Liu, Wang Chengzong has been staring at Mr. Liu, and Mr. Liu's expressions and movements have not escaped Wang Chengzong's observation.
It's just that Wang Chengzong's expression remains unchanged, except for a little sarcasm in his voice, but there is no substantive action.
"Oh? Jiro, please speak! "Erlang, Erlang again! Wang Chengzong didn't do anything, but the simple two words Erlang had already shown the ridicule vividly.
Liu was always furious when he heard these two words, and Mr. Liu, who heard these two words, couldn't wait to go up and tear Wang Chengzong to pieces.
However, now, the distance is not enough, not enough for Mr. Liu to complete the counter-killing! Mr. Liu could only suppress his anger, and while organizing his words as much as possible to make the words that came out of his mouth not appear to be too flawed, he moved towards Wang Chengzong without a trace.
"Now Tian Ji'an's wariness of us has weakened a lot, Brother Chengzong still has elites in Weizhou and Beizhou, but there is more than one elite, since ...... "six steps, five steps, four steps, three steps...... With Mr. Liu's endless trash talk, Mr. Liu had successfully brought the two closer to three steps, and Mr. Liu felt that he had seen Wang Chengzong's blood splashed on the spot.
Unconsciously, Mr. Liu had silently moved his right hand to the saber at his waist, as long as he took one step further!
At this critical moment, a military academy of Cheng Dejun entered from outside the door, attracting the eyes of both of them.
After entering the door of the military academy, he was slightly stunned, and began to scan the entire room, seeing the movements of the military academy, for fear of being found out about his own cause, Mr. Liu also stopped moving forward.
After seeing the location of Mr. Liu and Wang Chengzong clearly, the military academy strode forward, and in a moment's effort, it had already walked to Wang Chengzong's side, and it happened to be between Mr. Liu and Wang Chengzong.
In the past, Mr. Liu's swordsmanship was good, but after so many years...... Coupled with the sudden change and the blocking of the only angle of attack, Mr. Liu had no choice but to take back the hand that had been stretched out.
And the Cheng German army didn't seem to notice Mr. Liu's supplies, went to Wang Chengzong's side, and whispered a few words beside Wang Chengzong.
Mr. Liu could clearly see that after hearing the words of the military academy, Wang Chengzong's face had a smile that could not be concealed.
After passing the message, the Chengde Military Academy, which had entered the city, immediately turned around and seemed to be ready to leave. Seeing the other party turn around and leave, Mr. Liu felt a burst of joy in his heart, and then reluctantly stretched out his hand to the saber.