Chapter 259: Siege and Counter-Siege

Since ancient times, the battlefield has been an extremely cruel place, and in ancient times, the soldier saint once said: Where the battlefield of the soldiers, the place where the corpse stands, if you die, you will live, and if you are lucky, you will die.

And the most important thing for a qualified army is to have the courage to fight to the death. Only by not being afraid of life and death can we escape from death.

In this respect, although the Huainan Army was much worse than the Yellow-faced Army, it was much better than the rebel army that had been put together temporarily.

Therefore, when Zhang Shuliang led the Huainan Army to rush towards the rebels first, the water bandits, who were one of the main forces of the rebels, immediately panicked.

However, the people who went to hunt down those ordinary people just now were all water bandits, otherwise their positions would be in chaos at this moment.

And Zheng Gangliang, who was sitting in the Chinese army, led the army and began to charge towards the south of his encirclement, and he knew that his encirclement might not be able to withstand it.

However, Zheng Gang was not too worried about this, in fact, his target had never been the five thousand Huainan Army, his real target was only Mu Qingyun.

As long as he can kill Mu Qingyun, even if half of the three thousand people on his side are lost, he feels that he has earned it.

Therefore, when Zhang Shuliang led the Huainan army to charge, Zheng Gang also immediately organized the rebels of his henchmen's city guard battalion to prepare for a surprise attack.

And Lin Chao had the same idea as him, because of his fiasco last night, he and Luo Zijun couldn't raise their heads in this group of rebels at all.

The extreme depression made him hold back the desire to kill, and he must lead the Junzi Army to take down Mu Qingyun's head today.

When the time comes, he wants to see if Pan He dares to look at him with contempt. At the same time, he also wants to let Zheng Gang, the villain, and his own water bandits know that their Gentleman Army is not in vain.

So when those water bandits were still panicking and at a loss, the soldiers and gentlemen of the city guard camp were already stabbing towards the elongated Huainan army like two sharp swords.

And the target of their attack was also the middle part of the Huainan Army, which was also where Mu Qingyun was.

When Zheng Gang and Lin Chao both killed Mu Qingyun, Pan He, who was standing on the tall building opposite, couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth.

"It seems that the level of Zheng Gang and Lin Chao is half a catty and eight taels, and they can't understand this little trick played by Zhang Shuliang."

"Alas, this Zheng Gang is just a small deputy commander of the city guard battalion after all, but this Lin Chao is the deputy governor of my Yue Gentlemen's Army, such a level is really worrying!" Although Mei Buyu said something that sounded like he was concerned about the gentlemen of the Yue Kingdom, but when she thought about it carefully, she seemed a little yin and yang.

"If it weren't for his family power, he would have been able to ascend to the position of deputy governor? He's just a gentleman who doesn't know the thickness of heaven and earth! Fei Du snorted coldly and said.

The three of them also nodded in agreement with Fei Du's evaluation, and at the same time, they could understand why Fei Du looked down on people like Lin Chao and Zheng Gang so much.

This is entirely because Fei Du himself was just a poor child when he was young, and later he was able to be appreciated by King Yue and enter the school hall by virtue of his courage to fight.

"But Master Pan, the direction of Mu Qingyun and Zhang Shuliang's breakthrough is south! Is it wrong for you to arrange all the remaining forces on the route to the Xuanwu Gate in advance? Yao Junheng did not make any comments on Zheng Gang and Lin Chao, he only questioned Pan He's ambush on the road to Xuanwumen.

Although he has always known Pan He very well, he knows that he has always been a person who plans and then acts. But after all, it is very risky to set up an ambush in advance when the current battle situation is unclear.

"How can Yao Jun think the same as Fei Jun? Don't worry, when those water bandits chased the fake people just now, it was destined that Mu Qingyun and Zhang Shuliang would break through to the north. Before Pan He could explain, Mei Buyu took the lead in saying.

"What's the explanation, you guys are optimistic about the breakthrough direction of Mu Qingyun and Zhang Shuliang below, but it's south!" Before, when Pan He arranged for some water bandits to pretend to be ordinary people to attack the encirclement, Fei Du expressed doubts.

Now, when he saw the movement of the Huainan army below, his worries were even greater.

"Sometimes what you see isn't always true, and it's probably just a trick!" Pan He saw that the Huainan army that rushed to the front had arrived in front of the encirclement, but he still did not panic.

He seems to have a good idea of the situation in front of him. From the upper floor, the Huainan army below slapped heavily on the encirclement like a surging tide.

The encirclement, which was basically composed of water bandits, immediately began to retreat under the attack of the Huainan Army's ordinary stormy waves.

However, there is no shortage of people who know how to fight among the bandits, after all, Nan Yike's intensive training in the past few days has still played a certain role.

They knew very well that if their side was broken up now, their final outcome would be completely wiped out by the Huainan army.

Now, only by maintaining the formation, fighting and retreating, and then waiting for reinforcements from their comrades on both flanks, will they have a chance to survive.

So, as the rebels on the south side of the encirclement fought and retreated, they suddenly found that their comrades on both sides had not come to help them defend.

Because the rebels on both sides were following Zheng Gang and Lin Chao at this time, attacking the central army of the Huainan Army.

Faced with such a situation, the rebels in the encirclement over there can now be a little desperate. Although as long as the rebels led by Zheng Gang and Lin Chao attack the Chinese army of the Huainan army, the Huainan army on their side should return to the Chinese army.

However, they were not sure if their side would be able to hold out until the Huainan Army returned to help. And when Mu Qingyun, who was in the middle of the Chinese army, saw the rebels on the left and right attacking him together, he couldn't help but admire Zhang Shuliang a little more.

Because Zhang Shuliang had expected this situation when they launched the charge, and at the same time he also made corresponding arrangements.

So when Zheng Gang and Lin Chao rushed towards the middle of the Huainan Army, the Huainan Army, which was originally attacking southward, suddenly split in two.

Among them, a small part of the Huainan army led by Zhang Shuliang continued to charge towards the encirclement, and the other part of the Huainan army suddenly nodded and killed Zheng Gang's charging team on the left.

Their goal was to go straight to the middle of Zheng Gang's impulsive team. At the same time, the Huainan Army, which had been on the north side, suddenly attacked the rebels led by Lin Chao.

Their goal is also the middle of their charge. And because Zheng Gang and Lin Chao are now eager to take down Mu Qingyun's head to end this battle, and the Huainan army charged relatively suddenly just now, so they organized the charge in a hurry, so their formation was relatively scattered.

Therefore, in the face of the charge of the Huainan army, their ranks immediately began to become chaotic. The part of the rebels that rushed to the front continued to charge towards the Huainan Army.

But the rebels behind had to slow down the pace of the charge, and they had to be prepared to be attacked by the Huainan army.

In this way, the two pairs of Zheng Gang and Lin Chao were directly cut off by the Huainan Army.

"There are people in this world who die of old age, some people who die of illness, and some people who die by accident, but there are also people who die stupidly!" Pan He said faintly.

"I usually think that Zhang Shuliang's qualifications are mediocre, but I didn't expect him to be really good at fighting and have some skills." Yao Junheng didn't expect the situation downstairs to develop like this.

"Compared with Lin Chao's gentleman, this Shuliang has been on the battlefield many times after all, and don't forget that his master is Mu Zhantu's old thing." Mei Buyu reminded him.

At this time, Yao Junheng remembered what kind of characters these former Huainan kings of Huainan were.

Thinking of the old Huainan King Yao Junheng, he couldn't help but shudder, and Fei Du couldn't help but sit up straight, and even Pan He, who had always been holding Zhizhu, couldn't help but squeeze his fists slightly.

For this old Huainan king, everyone in the world thinks that he is just a reckless man who only knows how to conquer. But only those who really know him know that the image of the reckless man is just what he does for outsiders.

The real Mu Zhantu is actually an extremely thoughtful person, and he is also a master of layout by doing things one step at a time.

When he was the king of Huainan, it was during the period of Emperor Shengcheng, when the power of the feudal town had reached the point where it could subvert the Dayu Dynasty after a long period of operation, and the best of them was Mu Zhantu.

Although Emperor Shengcheng was the imperial capital of the Dayu Dynasty, he was sparse and ambitious, and he was bent on limiting the power of the feudal towns, and finally with his support, he finally created a situation in which the eunuchs' power leaned towards the government and the opposition.

At that time, the other Jiedu envoys and vassal kings had greater ambitions, and wanted to use this to completely overthrow the rule of Emperor Shengcheng.

But Mu Zhantu, as the leader of the vassal king, smelled danger at a critical time. So he immediately wrote to Emperor Shengcheng to limit the rights of the eunuchs, and at the same time, in order to reassure the emperor, he was willing to take the lead in reducing the number of troops in his hands.

At that time, Emperor Shengcheng was overjoyed after reading Mu Zhantu's letter, because Mu Zhantu's letter was actually a statement that Huainan would not participate in the rebellion.

At the same time, Mu Zhantu's letter to the end is also a warning to the princes of the world, because he Huainan Wang's lineage was originally orthodox in Beiyu, according to reason, even if the world's vassals rebelled, they would definitely use the restoration of the Beiyu royal lineage as an excuse.

However, Mu Zhantu's letter really blocked the way for the feudal lords to rebel. For this reason, the feudal clans at that time also hated him to the core, but Mu Zhantu didn't care about this.

In fact, for him, everything in this world is not as important as their Huainan King lineage, and once they rebel, the result will only be a target set up by others.

And the results as targets are beyond doubt. Later, in order to thank Mu Zhantu for his loyalty, Emperor Shengcheng expanded the territory of Huainan by one-third, which is why Huainan is so big today.

Later, Emperor Shengcheng died because of taking pills, and Mu Zhantu did not show any intention of overstepping, and even during the reign of Emperor Shengwu, he also strongly supported Emperor Shengwu's Northern Expedition.

It can be said that the reason why Emperor Shengwu's Northern Expedition was able to achieve the most brilliant results in the past hundred years is that Mu Zhantu also has a great credit.

However, it is a pity that since he entered Zongzheng Temple, his influence in Huainan has declined sharply. Because Zongzheng Temple has a clear rule that any elder who enters Zongzheng Temple will have nothing to do with the original vassal state, and no elder may use his or her position to seek benefits for any vassal state, otherwise he will be punished for treason.

And this crime of treason is much more severe than the crime of treason, because the crime of treason is at most extermination.

However, not only will the sin of treason be extinguished, but even the ancestors who have entered the earth will be crushed and their bones scattered.

If it weren't for this, King Yue would not dare to plot against Huainan, and even get rid of all the Huainan lineages.

"I'm afraid that he will do something, this old man Hu has now entered the Zongzheng Temple, and he is already a toothless tiger." Mei Buyu said suddenly viciously.

Although this was to cheer up the other three, it was also to embolden himself.

"It's an old man who is about to go to the ground, and he is going to do something!" Fei Du also said. Just when the four people upstairs mentioned that the old Huainan King had palpitations, the situation on the battlefield below changed again.

In less than a moment, the Huainan Army had completely cut off the formation of Zheng Gang and Lin Chao.

And Zhang Shuliang and the others, who were originally rushing to the south, immediately turned around and quickly retreated in the direction of the Chinese army after forcing the rebels in their direction more than twenty or thirty meters away.

Soon he joined up with Mu Qingyun of the Chinese army, and the Huainan army on the two flanks just now also quickly retreated after cutting off Zheng Gang and Lin Chao's formation.

And in an instant, Zheng Gang and Lin Chao, who were still full of ambition, became turtles in the urn, and they became the objects of the encirclement.

The retreat of a large number of Huainan troops also quickly compressed the space where Zheng Gang and Lin Chao were located. Soon they were drowned in the Huainan army.

In the face of dozens of times the enemy, let alone them, even if the overlord is alive, it will not help. Soon, most of Zheng Gang and Lin Chao's subordinates were all killed, and they were quickly surrounded by people.

At this time, Zheng Gang and Lin Chao were still rushing left and right in the encirclement, and they wanted to make the last desperate resistance.

"From now on you have to stay behind us, and when the time comes, you have to destroy all my face." Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through on his side, Lin Chao couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed, and then said to the guards beside him.

"But the governor 、、、、、、" The soldier looked at Lin Chao covered in blood in puzzlement, he didn't understand why Lin Chao gave such an order.

You must know that on the battlefield, no matter who wants to leave a whole corpse for yourself, this is a kind of dignity for a warrior.

But Lin Chao wants to destroy his face after his death, which is tantamount to dying without a corpse!

"Don't fucking talk nonsense, this time the affairs of Huainan Kingdom are the actions of the imperial court, and we have nothing to do with Yueguo, do you understand!" Although Lin Chao knew that if he died, Pan He and the others would most likely clean up this mess for themselves.

But he can't guarantee that there will be no accidents. Once Mu Qingyun cut off his head and escaped to ascend to heaven, then he could let everyone in the world know that the affairs of Huainan Kingdom were done by Yue Guo with his head.

At that time, the plan of the king of Yue will inevitably be affected, and their country may become the target of public criticism.

"Yes! Governor! The soldier looked at Lin Chao with tears in his eyes. Soon there were only a dozen people left on Zheng Gang and Lin Chao's side, and they were still fighting with weapons in their hands.

The bright red blood had completely dyed them red, and in the cold wind, the twenty or so people had begun to rise from their bodies due to the incessant fighting.

And Lin Chao felt as if his lungs were being burned by flames, and at the same time, his hands were trembling, and he already felt that he was about to lose the long sword in his hand.

"Come on, brothers, we have no way to escape today, in that case, let's kill enough to kill us!" Although Lin Chao was about to run out of strength, he still roared angrily.

His encouragement ignited the fighting spirit of the rest of the people, and they all gasped and roared after him.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Although their numbers were small, their momentum completely suppressed the large Huainan army.

"There's no need to drag it out, it's too late to change and take down all these people!" Zhang Shuliang looked at Zheng Gang and Lin Chao on the left and right, and he immediately gave an order.

Immediately, the crowd surrounding them pressed closer again, and Zheng Gang and Lin Chao narrowed their range of activities again.

"Pan He! I shouldn't have listened to your nonsense in the first place! Zheng Gang on the other side finally lost the strength of his whole body and finally fell to the ground, and at the last moment when he fell, he yelled at the sky with all his strength.

Immediately, he saw that the henchmen around him were being cut down to the ground one by one. Their blood spilled in the air as a rain of blood, and two drops of blood landed right in his eyes.

For a moment, his gaze turned blood-red. And in this blood red, he saw the shadow, and the shadow seemed to smile at him.

That smile is as intoxicating as the most beautiful flower in the world. Slowly, the shadow became more and more blurry, more and more blurred, until finally the blood-red world in front of him was completely plunged into darkness.

Just when Zheng Gang fell, Lin Chao on the other side finally couldn't hold on. There were only three or four people left in the dozen or so people around him at this time, and among them were the personal soldiers he had just entrusted.

"Quick, do it now, or it'll be too late!" Seeing that the rest of them were all scarred, Lin Chao knew that he couldn't delay any longer, otherwise he would completely lose his last chance.

And the pro-soldier looked around at the Huainan army around him, and then he looked at the remaining two companions, and finally gritted his teeth and waved the long sword in his hand that was already full of gaps, and slashed at Lin Chao's face.

With the fall of the sword, a deep wound appeared on Lin Chao's originally handsome cheek.

At this time, Lin Chao had lost his pain, and he could only feel a little numb on his face.

He touched it with his hand, and when he saw a large amount of blood on his hand, he finally smiled.

And his smile touched the wound, and the white bones that had been hidden in the wound were exposed again.

"Don't listen and continue!" Lin Chao didn't care, he continued to shout. With tears in his eyes, the soldier raised his sword again and was about to continue slashing.

But in the next second, a feather arrow directly pierced the throat of the pro-soldier.

"It's wishful thinking to destroy corpses!" Mu Qingyun slowly put down the longbow in his hand and continued.

"Go and bring Zheng Gang and this guy to me, they are still useful, I will interrogate them slowly."