Wupyeong-gun.

At present, it is the westernmost border county of the Great Zhou, the city wall is tall and heavy, the afternoon sun shines on the wall, the golden light shines, and the whole city is rendered like a golden and iron giant beast crawling on the ground.

General's Palace.

The back hall is the resting place of Song Huchen, the general of Zhenxi, and it is also his private space for solitude.

Unlike other wealthy families, this resting place is very simple, with only two chairs on the left and right, and a bed against the wall.

The bed is quaint, with a desk on it, and a chessboard on it.

The black and white pieces on the chessboard are in a state of anxiety, and the situation is "obscure".

On either side of the board sat two people.

One person was wearing a black robe, with a mediocre appearance and bright eyes, it was Song Huchen.

The other was dressed in a green robe, dressed as a scribe, with a calm complexion, a strand of white hair sandwiched between his black hair, and a pair of eyes that shone with wisdom.

He held a white seed in his hand, muttered for a moment, and placed the white child in the lower left star position.

Song Huchen couldn't help but be stunned and said, "What kind of law is this?" Is it to give up this corner? ”

The blue-robed scribe smiled: "The battlefield is like a chess game, and the chess game is like a battlefield, many times, what you hear and see may not be true, maybe someone just deliberately let you see it." ”

Song Huchen smiled and said, "Then I'm really careful!" ”

That being said, his technique is still the same as before, opening and closing.

The green-robed scribe smiled and said nothing, and fell unhurriedly, and after a few steps, he forced Song Huchen to the point that beads of sweat the size of beans oozed from his head, and he couldn't fall for a long time.

"I lost!"

Song Huchen was like a deflated ball, and he threw down the sunspot in his hand.

"After so many years, General Zhenxi still has this temperament, no wonder there is no growth in the art of war." The blue-robed scribe shook his head.

Song Huchen was straightforward and fast-talking, and originally wanted to say "I can't change it", but the second half of the blue-robed scribe's sentence made him swallow the words that came to his mouth again.

He frowned and said, "Could this game of chess be related to this battle?" ”

"Three-way people raid the west, true and false, false and real, there is always a way to make contributions!" The blue-robed scribe said meaningfully.

Song Huchen stroked the short beard of his chin, his eyes flashing.

This time, in order to avenge the Black Eagle Army's raid on Yinshan County, it was planned to use three roads of men and horses to enter the border of Xia Kingdom.

One way is the first battalion of Jianwei Zhonglang General Zhu Bangguo, all the way is the department of Chen Yang, the captain under his command, and all the way is the first battalion of Liu Xingze, the general of Yangwei Zhonglang.

Among them, Jianwei Zhonglang will Zhu Bangguo from the north, Captain Chen Yang will be from the west, and Yangwei Zhonglang will be Liu Xing from the south.

The three men and horses each led 3,000 cavalry, in fact, it was just to loot and kill the prestige of the Xia Kingdom, and they didn't expect to really build any great achievements.

Because, the time is not yet ripe, Da Zhou is not ready to start a war with the Xia Kingdom.

However, after being reminded by the green-robed scribe, Song Huchen suddenly changed his opinion.

He was a little surprised: "Could it be that my three people will have any surprises?" ”

The blue-robed scribe said, "I'm just guessing. ”

"Oh? Why do you think so? Song Huchen was curious.

The blue-robed scribe looked at the void and said, "There has been no large-scale military conflict on the Zhou-Xia border for more than ten years, and although the Xia people are brave, so many years of comfortable life have almost worn out their warlike heart. They must not have expected that the Black Eagle Army's raid on Yinshan County would cause such a large-scale retaliation from us. ”

"Not bad!"

Song Huchen nodded and sneered: "The Xia people have always compared us Zhou people to rabbits, thinking that we are weak and bullied, and they never expected that our reaction would be so fierce. ”

Suddenly, he changed his words and said worriedly: "Although we have dispatched three ways of men and horses, we are only nine thousand cavalry, and the real combat strength is not as good as the one thousand Black Eagle Army of Xia Kingdom, can these three people really do miraculous feats?" ”

He looked at the blue-robed scribe, still skeptical of what he had just said.

At this moment, a hurried voice came from outside the hall: "General, Master Chen is back!" ”

Hearing this, Song Huchen looked overjoyed, glanced at the blue-robed scribe, and then walked out of the hall.

A soldier in battle armor was standing outside waiting, and when he saw Song Huchen appear, he hurriedly said, "General, look at Lord Chen, he's dying!" ”

The smile on Song Huchen's face suddenly froze, and he hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"I heard that Lord Chen's men and horses ran into the Black Eagle Army along the way, and there were heavy casualties, and even Lord Chen himself almost couldn't come back!" Sergeant 1510.

Song Huchen said: "He didn't go to Wuzhou along the way, how could he meet the Black Eagle Army?" ”

Wuzhou is the original Lingwu County, which is next to Wuping County. Because the Western Army battalion was stationed in Wuping County, the Xia State also stationed tens of thousands of horses in Wuzhou.

With so many men and horses stationed in Wuzhou, once a large army was dispatched from Wuping County, the Xia people would immediately know about it, so Song Huchen just asked Chen Yang to lead three thousand cavalry to secretly leave Wuping County.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the three thousand cavalry led by Chen Yang would not have encountered the elite of the Xia Kingdom, but the fact was the opposite, not only did they meet, but also encountered the elite of the elite - the Black Eagle Army.

"Let's go! Take me to see it! Song Huchen couldn't wait to know the specific situation.

However, before he could take a few steps, another soldier rushed into the courtyard.

Seeing this person panicking, Song Huchen's heart sank, and his first reaction was that there was bad news coming again.

But then I heard the soldier excitedly shout: "General, good news! Good news! ”

As he spoke, he handed the document in his hand to Song Huchen.

Song Huchen took the paperwork, quickly opened it and looked at it, and soon, a smile appeared on his face, "haha" laughed: "Okay!" All right! That's great! ”

He said three "good" words in a row, and took the paperwork and spun around in place several times.

Then, he walked briskly back to the hall, handed the book in his hand to the blue-robed scribe, and said happily, "Look at it! What a miracle! ”

The blue-robed scribe first smiled, took the document unhurriedly, and after reading it carefully, he closed the document, he looked up at Song Huchen and said, "How much do you think his document is true?" ”

When Song Huchen heard this, his face sank, and he said, "What do you mean?" Could it be that the recovery of Kei County is fake? Does he, Zhu Bangguo, dare to deceive in this matter? ”

The blue-robed scribe shook his head and said, "The terrain of Ji County is special, and it is too difficult for our army to capture it. In a few words of understatement, he conquered Ji County, how could it be so simple. ”

When Song Huchen heard this, he quickly understood, but then he thought of something and said, "He Zhu Bangguo really doesn't have this ability, but that kid is not necessarily!" ”

"You mean...... Wang Cheng? Does he really have what it takes? The blue-robed scribe was skeptical.

Although it was written in the document that Wang Cheng led a team of men and horses to capture Ji County, he felt that there must be a master behind him who was planning this matter, and this master was definitely not Zhu Bangguo.

Song Huchen said: "Although that kid has just joined the army, he is a natural general. At the beginning, he single-handedly killed more than 200 Black Hawk troops, and later beheaded the captain of the Black Hawk Army, and most of the Black Hawk Army was killed by him. ”

He squinted his eyes and smiled: "This kid doesn't rely on pure force, if he doesn't have a keen sense of battle, he can't accomplish such miraculous feats." Entering Ji County from Liuyun County in Yinshan County, it seemed that there was no way out, but that kid couldn't say it. ”

"It seems that you are very optimistic about this Wang Cheng?" The blue-robed scribe said.

Song Huchen did not deny it, and said, "Don't doubt it, it must have been done by that kid." But what I can't figure out now is, how did they hold Kei County? That Li Yuanqing led 30,000 horses and stationed in Pingzhou. ”

"Not bad! Li Yuanqing's 30,000 horses are not far from Ji County, and the cavalry will arrive in half a day if they run, how could he give Ji County to others? The blue-robed scribe said.

"We can't figure this out for a while, we have to ask Zhu Bangguo in person to find out. However, if Kei County falls into our hands, this game of chess will really come alive! Song Huchen said.

Ji County is a gateway to the northwest of the Xia Kingdom, and if you take Ji County, the Zhou army can break through from Ji County and enter the hinterland of the Xia Kingdom.

The blue-robed scribe looked at the chessboard and said, "This game of chess is indeed alive!" ”

He then said: "Since Ji County has fallen into our hands, it is imperative to send heavy troops to guard it." ”

"Not bad! Xia Guo will definitely not watch Ji County fall into our hands, and that Xiao Cavalry General will definitely lead a heavy army to rob it! Song Huchen said.

The two didn't know that Li Yuanqing had already sent troops to Ji County, because Li Yuanqing and the others had not yet arrived when this letter was written, and Zhu Bangguo wrote this letter more to rescue them.

Song Huchen immediately summoned the two soldiers standing in the courtyard and asked them to call all the lieutenants under his command to the courtyard.

Except for Chen Yang, who was seriously injured, all the remaining nine lieutenants came.

Song Huchen immediately arranged five captains to command 15,000 men and horses, and immediately rushed to Ji County with the heavy weapon in the army, the Iron Arm Divine Crossbow.

"These fifteen thousand men and horses must not be able to hide the tens of thousands of eyes on the other side, and the rest of the people and horses should also move." The blue-robed scribe said.

"Striking the West?" Song Huchen understood.

He then issued a series of military orders to the remaining four lieutenants.

That's how he put his heart in his belly.

However, once such a big disturbance came out, the whole west would be in chaos.

The border between Zhou and Xia, which had been quiet for more than ten years, was immediately shrouded in a cloud of war.

Song Huchen's face was worried, he originally just wanted to take revenge on Xia Guo, but who would have expected to stab the sky.

He said worriedly: "The Xia Kingdom will definitely put pressure on our side of the court, and the king will ...... there."

At this point, he shook his head.

As a general guarding the border, he is well aware of the difficulty of recapturing Ji County, and he is also very aware of the importance of Ji County, and he is even more aware of the rarity of this opportunity, but the ministers in the court may not be aware of this, and may even be labeled as "provoking a war between the two countries".

"Don't worry! If others don't understand, the king will definitely understand! ”

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