Chapter 742: The Gypsy Merchant
The north of Wancheng, Xiaowangzhuang, the main mansion, and the main heads of the Benlei Zhichong Mansion are all gathered in the relatively spacious hall, and sitting on the seat on the left side of the head is a middle-aged man wearing a purple cloth armor.
This person's face is like jade, his temples are bearded, his head is combed with a bun from the Tang Dynasty, and there is a warm and angry "color" hidden on his face, and in the hall, he performed a series of leaps in the first battle of Wancheng, and Xu Shou, the captain who attacked Wancheng, knelt on the ground on one knee, and his head did not dare to raise his head and wait for his hair to fall.
Sitting in that position, it was naturally Ben Lei and Chong Fuzhong Lang General, Zheng Jiugong.
"My lord, eighty percent of the situation in Wancheng has changed, listening to Xu Shou say this, the number of this wolf cavalry is not less than one or two thousand, but our spying in the city has not been mentioned, obviously not the soldiers and horses in the city, although Xu Shou is a little reckless this time, but more is less lucky!"
The one who spoke was Ben Lei Zhichong Mansion, Captain Guo Yi, and Xia Rong, who was also the deputy of General Zhichong Mansion.
Although Zheng Jiugong is a bookish and angry, but his "temperament" is a little irritable, he heard that Xu Shou almost lost the vanguard, and suddenly his flesh hurt, and he rushed to the mansion, before on the battlefield in Qingzhou, there were many losses, and the elite beast cavalry was lost by more than one-third, although some people came in, but they were all underage beast cavalry, and Xu Shou's battalion could be regarded as an elite veteran under his command.
Five hundred electric beast riders, lost nearly four hundred horses, only one-fifth of them fled back, plus the cavalry that only had more than three hundred left, the entire vanguard suffered heavy losses, and even called his Zhichong Mansion a little injured, such a battle damage, that is, during the Qingzhou battlefield, only happened, and in Chuzhou, this way swept south, and the total number of people who lost the Thunder Zhichong Mansion did not exceed a hundred.
"Report, I caught a person outside the village, this person claims to be an spy arranged by Her Royal Highness the Princess!
"Oh!" Zheng Jiugong was thinking about how to deal with Xu Shou in his heart, and when he heard the news, he immediately waved his hand and said: "Bring people up, you also step aside first, merit is merit, and it is over, as for how to deal with it, we will discuss it later!"
Xu Shou sighed secretly, it seems that there is still room for maneuver in things, this time he has planted a big heel, but it seems that he still has a chance to make meritorious contributions, Xu Shou thought about standing up and retreating to the side.
Not long after, from outside the hall, a three-point obese, but dressed in a burlap coat that only servants can wear, a very uncoordinated person walked in, after the fat man walked in, his eyes swept into the hall, and finally fixed on Zheng Jiugong's body.
hugged his fists and bent down slightly, but he didn't make a big salute, but arched his hand and said: "You are the general Zheng Zhonglang of Benlei, you really look up for a long time, well, hurry up this way, but your throat is about to smoke, is there any tea to moisten your throat!"
Zheng Jiugong frowned slightly, this person behaved like this, but he seemed to be completely unafraid of his status, and when the guards came to report before, this person said that it was arranged by Her Royal Highness the Princess?
Zheng Jiugong asked people to serve a cup of tea, watched the other party drink it all, and then said: "You said that you are the spy of Her Royal Highness the Princess, do you have a certificate?"
The fat man smiled, took out a jade plaque from his arms and threw it over, and then said: "My name is Seta, a gypsy hu, and a chief under the command of Her Royal Highness the Holy Princess!"
Seta, the shopkeeper of the gypsy shop in the Yuntian Fortress, is also one of the culprits in the fall of the Yuntian Fortress, after completing the task, with the saint Li Wei'er returning to the empire, when Li Wei'er went south to Chuzhou to pick up Li Xun'er, stayed in Wancheng and began to collect information on Chuzhou.
The holy princess Li Weier has a status second only to the emperor Li Shimin in the re-established Tang Empire, and she has picked up contacts, still above Li Shimin, and is also the holy daughter of the five golden clans of the Hu family, and was named the holy princess by Li Shimin, and at the same time, because of her talent for great prophecy, it is even more mythical.
In the entire Li Tang, the respect for the Holy Princess is second only to Li Shimin, the emperor, and the entire Seta is the person of Her Royal Highness the Holy Princess, and Zheng Jiugong treats Seta as equals.
"Chief Seta, please take away the token!" Zheng Jiugong handed back the token of the Holy Princess, and then said straight to the point: "Chief Seta, this time under Dawan City, we have suffered heavy losses, we have lost a battalion of elite beast horses, and nearly two thousand elite iron horses, these are all sharp and strong in the army, and it is distressing to die one!"
Seta is a businessman, he is scheming, sleek and sophisticated, where can he not hear the complaints in Zheng Jiugong's words, but he laughed and said: "This incident is really an accident, a coincidence!"
"Oh!"
"This midnight effort, I have already inquired clearly, the wolf cavalry is the soldiers and horses under the tent of the Marquis of Ping'an, this wolf cavalry all the way from Baiyuan County to the north day and night, arrived in Wancheng last night, and then divided the troops into two ways, all the way into Wancheng, because Wancheng after night, the curfew was implemented, so I didn't get the news in time!"
"And this army first broke the camp of the Kangping army outside Wancheng, and then bypassed the outside of Wancheng, ambushed in the northwest of the city, and then launched an attack on the flank of our army that attacked the city, all of which I only knew afterwards, and now the city has been taken over by the soldiers and horses of the Marquis of Ping'an, and some of the clans in the city are also on the side of the Marquis of Ping'an!"
"Oh, Governor Seta, if our army attacks the city tomorrow, how feasible is it possible, before Governor Seta seems to have said that there is also a placement in the city, I don't know ......?"
Seta shook his head and said: "I don't understand the war, the soldiers and horses in the city have been almost damaged in the past few days, if there was no such change last night, Wancheng would have been able to go down, but now the situation is very different, the soldiers in the city are now very morale, plus the wolf cavalry of the Ping'an Marquis, it is impossible to steal the city gate!"
"And Zheng Zhonglang hurried south, and the baggage was also left behind, and there was not even a siege equipment, if you want to take Wancheng, it is difficult, and the advance guard of Ping'an Hou has entered Wancheng, and it is estimated that the main force will come in three or five days, with this belief, the defenders in the city are afraid that they will defend to the death!"
"Isn't there any way, if we can't take Wancheng, strategically, we will be in a very disadvantageous position, and once that Ping'an Hou takes Wancheng, he can send troops to the Suzaku Mansion at any time!" Zheng Jiugong said.
Although Ping'an Hou is not very old, in his early twenties, but no one in Li Tang dares to underestimate him, and they all know the inside story of the battle of Yuntian Fortress, and the three Zhichong Mansions that "Green" went south were not directly defeated by this person, but if it wasn't for this person to capture Xiangyang City, the Xiangyang Turmoil would not have been quelled so quickly, maybe after surviving that while, there would be a new opportunity.
And after that, in the battle of Yunxian, it is also a victory with less, in Chuzhou, the most capable of fighting is afraid of this Ping'an Hou, and now such a tiger is staring at you next to you, I don't know when it will come out, can you still fight with other beasts with peace of mind.
Seta thought for a while, and said: "It seems that I can only do not hesitate to 'expose' the foundation I have worked hard to build in the past two years, now the morale in the city has recovered, but the number of soldiers and horses is not large, tomorrow night, I will arrange people to burn the granaries in the city, and set fire to the city, disturb the city, and disperse the troops in the city, after that, I will organize people to steal the south gate, can it be done, just this time!"
Zheng Jiugong heard this, but nodded again and again, and said: "When the time comes, I will cooperate in the north city, and I will dispatch an elite team to bypass Wancheng, haha, the people in the city will definitely not think that we will kill from the south gate, as long as the gate of Wancheng is opened, it will be easy to capture Wancheng!"
On the night he came back from Zhangyuan City, Leng Zhuo made several arrangements, first dispatched some soldiers and horses to the north, leaving half of the soldiers and horses to continue to wait under Zhangyuan City, while he flew directly to Wancheng on a blue falcon.
At the speed of the blue falcon, the distance is less than two thousand miles, but it is only three or two hours, and after reaching Wancheng, the sky is only bright.
After listening to Yelu Xiuge's report last night, Leng Zhuo was very happy, but he didn't expect that Yelu Xiuge not only entered Wancheng first, but also fought two beautiful battles one after another, throwing the captured electric light beast into the hundred generals map, and first warming up for a while, more than three hundred, although it is not a lot, but it is enough to reproduce the race, and after that, as long as you find some psychic apprentices to cultivate, it is an elite beast riding force.
Under Leng Zhuo's command, the number of beast cavalry now must not be small, a large part of them are when summoning a hundred generals, the number of beast cavalry directly summoned is uncertain, as few as a dozen, as many as hundreds, like the previous hundred generals called, probably because the last ten generals, almost every general, there are no less than two or three hundred beast horses.
And the largest number is Yelu Huge's 1,800 wolf cavalry, and in addition to the hundred generals' own command, there are only some more scattered "chaotic" beast cavalry, the composition of the structure, mainly the hundred generals' own personal guards after the psychic, using the mount contract to sign the magical beast.
Another is the domesticated monsters, such as the Rock Beast of the Rock Legion, which has been domesticated by people itself, and there are relatively large numbers, so they are organized into new beast cavalry, but the latter two kinds of beast cavalry have their own shortcomings.
The former, the Warcraft mount is messy, and the strength of the psychic apprentice is still poor, plus the initial army, the combat power has not yet been formed, the latter, although there is a certain scale, but the domestication of the Warcraft, but it requires a certain strength, and at worst, it must also be a spirit, otherwise it is difficult to tame, and after taming, it also takes time to "practice" in cooperative operations, and it also takes time to form combat effectiveness.
Therefore, most of the beast cavalry available in Leng Zhuo's hands are the beast cavalry guards brought by the generals recruited later, but these beast cavalry guards are still low in strength because they are channeling, and they are far from reaching the strongest combat power of the beast cavalry.
However, with the fortified city of Wancheng to defend, even in the face of a Li Tang elite Zhichong Mansion, Leng Zhuo is still very confident, as long as he holds on for three days, the main force will be able to reach Wancheng, and when the time comes, this Li Tang Zhichong Mansion will still stick here, Leng Zhuo will not be passively beaten.
The few newly recruited generals are also fierce generals, Li Tangjun is very strong, but in the face of several famous generals, as well as the elite under his command, Leng Zhuo has some expectations.