The plan to attack Damo County at night failed, and the East Vietnamese Army returned defeated, with nearly 700 dead and wounded, and nearly 500 captured.

Then, as soon as the sky was slightly bright, Wu Zhu was guarded by hundreds of guards, and he came to the south of Damo County, which was the main battlefield yesterday, and the banners of the East Vietnamese Army were scattered all over the place, but the weapons were picked up by the East Chu Army.

They observed on the battlefield for a while, and the soldiers under the command of Wu Zhu carried the corpse of the East Vietnamese army back for burial, and marched east along the road with Su Shao, and after a certain distance, they saw the place where the Eastern Chu reinforcements appeared yesterday, here is an empty uphill, nearly a thousand torches are inserted on the ground, these torches are those Eastern Chu reinforcements that Su Shao saw last night.

Judging from these torches, there were not many reinforcements from the Eastern Chu Army, but it was these reinforcements that made the donkey shake his position and return defeated.

He angrily drew his long sword and cut off one of the torches, and then he said hatefully: "Do you dare to bully me?" ”

He knelt down on one knee with a face of shame and arched his hand: "King, give me another chance, I am willing to lead the army to recapture the Great End City." ”

Seeing the donkey shook and knelt down, this forced the anger in his heart, he pretended to be tolerant, and sighed after helping the donkey to shake: "The reinforcements of the Eastern Chu army have arrived, which means that the loss of the black wound has reached Xiangzhuang, if this is the case, the main force of the Eastern Chu army should also be almost there, we can't fight with them at the moment, if we are held back here for a long time, we will be consumed by them, so I decided to go east and continue to advance to Jiangdong, here, you continue to besiege the city, you don't need to attack, just trap them." ”

"Don't you siege the city?" Su Shao was slightly surprised, he didn't know what medicine was sold in Wuzhu's gourd, but Wuzhu smiled slyly: "The end is already in the bag, as long as Lu Fei's reinforcements can't arrive, they are trapped beasts, trapped beasts are still fighting, but the courage is not good, as long as we defeat the main force of Xiangzhuang in Wuju, the end will fall, at that time, we join forces and march north, along the way like a broken bamboo, why worry about Jiangdong not breaking?" ”

After Wu Zhu finished speaking, he couldn't help but raise his head and laugh.

……

"Fluttering and fluttering" a white dove fluttered its wings, landed on the wall of the east of the city, a gentleman's personal entourage stepped forward, led the white pigeon into his hand with grain, he immediately took off the cloth strip on the white pigeon's legs, and then let the white pigeon go, and then hurried to the city.

Soon, this personal entourage came to the county office of Damo County, the gentleman and Ding Hong were sitting opposite each other, holding wine glasses to each other, blatantly dining, after drinking a glass of wine, Ding Hong sighed: "If it weren't for Brother Zixuan arriving in time, I'm afraid I would have become a prisoner of the East Vietnamese Army at this time!" ”

Ding Hong sighed, and at this time, the gentleman smiled and said: "The king has already received the information that the East Vietnamese Army is going north, so he will temporarily send me south, I was going to reinforce the black wounded, but I didn't want to, the black wound has been lost, and I had no choice but to rush overnight to march to the end of the army, but I happened to meet the East Vietnamese army attacking the city at night, it was really God to help me." ”

The gentleman poured another glass of wine and drank it in a big gulp, at this time, Ding Hong on the opposite side sighed blankly: "It seems that the retreat has been broken, and you can only fight to the death." ”

As soon as Ding Hong finished speaking, he shouted loudly outside the house: "General, there is information sent." ”

"Come in." At this time, the gentleman put down the teacup, stretched out his hand to take the strip of cloth sent by the family, glanced at it, and looked at Ding Hong with a little surprise. ”

"The king said, he won't give us a single soldier, let us find a way to hold on to the city for a month!" After the gentleman finished speaking, the wine glass in Ding Hong's hand suddenly slipped down, and after a crisp sound, the wine was scattered all over the ground, at this time, Ding Hong hurriedly took the strip of cloth, looked at it carefully, and said: "Why did the king ask us to send someone to send the final war report back?" ”

After a pause, Ding Hong said again: "Doesn't the king already know the situation here?" ”

Seeing that Ding Hong didn't understand Xiang Zhuang's purpose, the gentleman couldn't help but smile lightly: "The king has his own arrangements, let's not guess, since he wants us to send the war report back, then I will immediately leave a letter and send someone back." ”

Ding Hong also hurriedly got up and said, "Hold on for a month? Looks like I'm going to have to get ready! ”

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Dozens of fast horses broke the silence of the night, they turned from the mountain road to gallop, not long after, in front of them appeared a huge military camp, the military camp around the guard tower standing, there have already been Eastern Chu soldiers sounded the gong, at this time, the gate of the village slowly opened, a tun chief wearing leather armor led the troops out, stopped the galloping cavalry, Lang Ran shouted: "What person? ”

"I am a military marquis under the general of the gentleman, and I have come to send a letter to the king, I hope you will convey it quickly!" The cavalry at the head gasped for breath, and it could be seen that he had come from a night of attack.

The tun chief looked at everyone again, and then asked, "Where is the letter?" ”

"The military situation is urgent, and I must hand it over to the king with my own hands." The marquis of the leader looked at the tun chief vigilantly, and the tun chief thought for a while, and then shouted: "Then you wait here, I will go and tell General Ding Gu." ”

The commander turned around, gave a few words of command to the soldiers behind him, and hurried towards the camp.

After a cup of tea, Ding Gu hurriedly came to the handsome account of the king of Eastern Chu under the escort of his personal escort, outside the tent, Li Yan raised his hand to stop Ding Gu who wanted to enter the account, and said in a deep voice: "General Ding, the king is resting, I am afraid that you will ...... if you break in so rashly."

Ding Gu was in a hurry, almost lost the courtesy of the monarch and ministers, but his nephew Ding Hong is still guarding the end of the country, if the reinforcements can't arrive in time, I'm afraid that the end of the end will not be guaranteed, and his nephew will not escape the doom, therefore, Ding Gu is already anxious, he looked at Li Yan, and arched his hand: "Please tell the king, I have an urgent military situation to report to him, it's too late, I'm afraid I will make a mistake!" ”

"But ......" Li Yan hesitated slightly, he looked back at the handsome account, and said in a low voice: "But the king has already rested, and it is inconvenient for me to go in." ”

"It's all this time, you still pay attention to these!" Ding Gu yelled and wanted to rush in, Li Yan hurriedly raised his hand to stop it, and the guards guarding the Shuai account on the side also immediately pulled out their swords and held Ding Gu, at this time, Xiang Zhuang's tired voice came from the Shuai account: "What's going on outside?" ”

"King, General Ding asks to see!"

Ding Gu saw that Xiang Zhuang was awake, and hurriedly shouted: "King, urgent military situation, I have something important to ask to see!" ”

This time, Xiang Zhuang's slightly anxious voice sounded in the handsome account: "Is it about the military situation in East Vietnam?" ”

"Exactly." As soon as Ding Gu's words fell, Xiang Zhuang's footsteps sounded in the handsome account, and a woman's complaint sounded: "King, it's so late, where are you going?" ”

"The military situation is urgent, I have to go and see." Xiang Zhuang replied with a little comfort, and then, another sound of dressing sounded, at this time, Ding Gu looked at Li Yan with some embarrassment, and said softly: "The woman inside is ......"

"This isn't something you should care about!" Li Yan glanced at Ding Gu, but still sighed: "It's the side concubine who is inside." ”

Ding Gu suddenly realized, after the army met yesterday, today there was a carriage with Xiang Zhuang's waist card and drove into the barracks, it turned out that the side concubine Kong Xiuyun came, Ding Gu finally understood why Li Yan tried his best to stop himself, but no matter what reason Xiang Zhuang had, he should not abandon the military affairs ahead, the military situation is urgent, once the end of the battle is lost, Zhuji County is lost, then, is there a barrier in Jiangdong to rely on?

Just when Ding Gu was thinking nonsense, Xiang Zhuang walked out wearing a milky white robe, he glanced at Ding Gu, and said in a low voice: "Follow me to the front tent to talk." ”

The front tent is the place where Xiang Zhuang deals with military affairs, a hundred steps away from Xiang Zhuang's sleeping tent, at this time a personal soldier lit the oil lamp in the tent, and gave Xiang Zhuang and Ding Gu a cup of hot tea each, and then retreated, Xiang Zhuang looked at Ding Gu with an anxious face, and asked: "How is the war in the south?" ”

"The black wound has been lost, the end is still holding on, Zhuji County has not found the enemy army for the time being, but I am worried that the end will not be able to hold on for a long time, and I hope that the king will send troops south as soon as possible."

"Wounded?" Xiang Zhuang got up and wandered in the tent, he walked to the map, and after looking at the map for a while, he said: "The East Vietnamese army took the black wound but did not go north in time, but wanted to take the end of the day, then, the end must be very critical at this time!" ”

"Yes, King." Ding Gu arched his hand and said: "A few days ago, the East Vietnamese army led the army to attack the end of the night at night, and the city of the end was almost lost. ”

Ding Gu was so anxious to ask for his life, just to save his nephew Ding Hong as soon as possible, at this time Xiang Zhuang had fallen into contemplation, in fact, as early as yesterday, Xiang Zhuang had received information that the East Vietnamese Army went north to attack the black wounded, and the end had become a lonely city, but the reason why Xiang Zhuang was not in a hurry to enter the army was to wait for an opportunity, waiting for Wu Zhu to transfer all the troops to the front line of the black wounded, and when he fought with him, he fought the black wounded and fought for the total annihilation of the East Vietnamese army.

But how to break the deadlock at the moment, Xiang Zhuang does not have a good countermeasure, besides, he only has 30,000 soldiers and horses in the south this time, and it is impossible to fight to the death with tens of thousands of people of the East Vietnamese Army, and if he wants to outwit, there is no way to break the deadlock in a short time, Xiang Zhuang became more hesitant.

Ding Gu saw Xiang Zhuang hesitating, he was even more anxious, put down the teacup in his hand, and arched his hand: "Why doesn't the king transfer a few troops and horses to the south, and completely annihilate the East Vietnamese army on the front line of Wushu and Daji?"

"How can the vast land of Dongyue be conquered overnight?" Xiang Zhuang shook his head, at this time, Li Yan, Kong Ji and Li Hong walked into the big tent one after another, after everyone gave Xiang Zhuang a salute, they each took their seats, and several pro-soldiers entered the account to send tea, at this time, Kong Ji asked: "King, I heard that the war situation in East Vietnam is getting tighter?" ”

Xiang Zhuang nodded, at this time, he looked at the people in the tent, and said: "Damo County is already unbearable to fight again, if our army reinforcements do not rush to help, Damo may be lost, the situation is urgent, I need everyone to contribute to solve the current crisis for me." ”

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