29. Change strategy
The Scholar King and the Beast King had to retreat in the Battle of the Valley in the new year, but now they have the opportunity to return to the Valley. Because Ye Changfei and the Beast King used the method of sneaking up on the capital of the Cuizhu Kingdom, the anxious Prime Minister Miao Wen and the Queen Mother worried about the safety of the young king, and rushed back to the capital in a hurry. But he never thought that before Prime Minister Miao arrived in the capital, the enemy troops besieging the capital retreated quietly. The Beast King, who had been prepared for a long time, returned to China ahead of schedule, organized an alliance with the Scholar King, went around in circles, and returned to the river valley to fight for it.
Returning to the river valley this time, the scholar king has different plans, since he has been entangled with Prime Minister Miao Wen in the river valley for so long, the alliance army organized by him and the Beast King has always been defeated, and they are almost completely defeated, which fully shows that they are not Prime Minister Miao Wen's opponent at all. Although this time Prime Minister Miao Wen was able to return to the river valley, as long as Prime Minister Miao arrived in the river valley, they might continue to suffer defeat. Therefore, the scholar king felt that he had to change his strategy and not confront Prime Minister Miao Cheng head-on, but in places that Prime Minister Miao Wen did not take into account, creating trouble for him and making it difficult for him to deal with.
In order to start the battle for the river valley, the scholar king and the beast king adopted different methods this time, they first sent Marshal Tian Long to lead an army, rushed down from Yunmeng Mountain, and besieged the gate of Gucheng, because General Guan Xiong, the defender of Gucheng, knew that as long as Prime Minister Miao Wen returned to Yecheng, once the crisis in Yecheng was resolved, Prime Minister Miao would be worried that the defense of the river valley would rush back immediately. So seeing the arrival of Marshal Tian Long's troops, General Guan was not afraid at all. The Scholar King and the Beast King did not show up rashly, it was General Guan who continued to paralyze the defense of Gu City, making him feel that the Beast King and the Scholar King must be besieging Ye Cheng.
The plan of the scholar king is to let Marshal Tian Long besiege Gucheng, and he and the Beast King will not go out first, and when Gucheng is besieged again, then send Ye Changfei and his junior sister Yifei to lead a team, according to the guidance of that precious map, avoid the river valley, take the mountain path, and unknowingly attack the border city of Gangshi Country, Qingfeng City, Qingfeng City is a city far away from the Cuizhu Kingdom in Gangshi Country, because this city is very remote, surrounded by mountains, there is no obvious passage to Qingfeng City from abroad, Normally, you would not find a route to enter the city from abroad, but now that King Scholar has this valuable map for reference, it will not be very difficult to enter the city.
The reason why King Scholar decided to leave the river valley and go to Qingfeng City in Gangshi Country to make trouble is because Gangshi Country and Cuizhu Country have always been good friends, and the princess of Gangshi Country is still the queen of King Cuizhu. The national strength of the Gangshi Kingdom is very weak, and it has been protected by the Cuizhu Kingdom since history. As long as there is a crisis in the Gangshi Kingdom, the Cuizhu Kingdom will rush to the rescue. Because of the reference of that map, the scholar king went to Qingfeng City, which was far away from the Cuizhu Kingdom, to make the Cuizhu Kingdom stretch the battle line and fight deeply, and then they would get unexpected results from it.
Ye Changfei and his junior sister Yifei almost didn't take much trouble to lead the troops to Qingfeng City. The general soldier appointed by the Gangshi State to defend the city is a veteran who is close to the age of sixtieth, and this veteran is named Huo Lei. This General Huo Lei has been stationed in the border city of Qingfeng City, because of the remote location of this city, this old general has never fought with others in this city, and he only maintains local law and order in peacetime. This time, so many invading soldiers suddenly came, and the unsuspecting General Horay was so frightened that he was in a hurry, and hurriedly told the soldiers to close the city gates.
In addition to the ravines around this Qingfeng City, there is almost no place to camp outside the city wall, and the soldiers led by Chang Fei at night will experience trekking through mountains and rivers, and they are very tired. When I got here, I couldn't find a place to rest for a while. Then I observed the embarrassment of the soldiers guarding Qingfeng City, and they often flew at night without stopping, taking advantage of the fact that the sky was still dark. led everyone to attack the city gate in one go, and General Horay, who was guarding the city wall, had only the order to fire arrows to retreat from the enemy. Horay's arrows didn't do much at all, and the besieging generals noticed that the enemy was about to release their arrows, so they immediately turned around and hid in the woods behind them. The sharp arrows that flew from the city walls only pierced the trunks of trees outside the city walls. At present, only the closed city gate is the last guarantee of General Horay, and Ye Changfei found that the gate of Qingfeng City, because there has never been a war, has been neglected to maintain, and it has almost become a rotten wood. Ye Changfei ordered his soldiers to cut down a thick tree trunk, and everyone lifted the thick trunk and slammed it into the city gate, which was destroyed after only three blows. It's not decent. Ye Changfei led the soldiers who came from afar and rushed into the city. Seeing this situation, the chief soldier of Horay, who was a little temperamental, was about to swing his sword at the city wall to kill himself, and was often taken by the fast-eyed night Chang Fei, flew up to the wall, and shot down the sword of the general soldier of Holei. Subsequently, a group of soldiers rushed up and tied up General Horley. The other defenders of the city raised their hands and knelt down in a large area, surrendered and begged for their lives to be spared.
Chang Fei at night occupied Qingfeng City, cut the banner of the Gangshi Kingdom floating on the city wall, and hung the flags of Niu Ling Country and Linshi Country high. Ye Changfei collected the defenders who surrendered without a fight and reorganized them into his own army. Only Horay, the old general, was loyal to the kingdom, incompetent and unwilling to surrender, and often flew at night without evil intentions to kill innocents, so he put General Horay in a cell and sent people to guard it. Ye Changfei knew that the army he led was alone in the depths, far away from his own borders, and he could not rashly advance to the depth of the Gangshi Country. He knew that the purpose of the king of the scholar country to send him such an army was to jump out of the battle for the general bureau in the river valley, open up a front on the periphery, involve Prime Minister Miao Wen, and then wait for an opportunity to make a breakthrough in the river valley.
Ye Changfei did not plan to send further troops, and stayed in Qingfeng City all day, waiting for the action of King Gangshi who got the news, and now the task is to let the generals get enough rest and recuperate, and to train the troops of the original Qingfeng City that have been integrated into the column, and prepare for the fierce battle that will come back at any time.
Feeling that there is no war at the border, the king of Gangshi country, who has lived a very nourishing life, is playing chess with a very favored concubine in the back garden of the palace this day, suddenly, Yuan Wei, the secretary of the kingdom's military department, broke the convention, and rushed into the palace in a hurry without the eunuch reporting in advance, and reported to the king of Gangshi the news that the border city of Qingfeng City was occupied by the enemy, and the king of Gangshi was stunned by the sudden news, and a chess piece in his hand slipped down, and the sound of falling to the ground made the king calm down. The king of Gangshi wondered how he had never had any grudges with the surrounding countries, and how it was possible that the whole kingdom had been invaded by them when the whole kingdom was peaceful. The king decided to immediately summon the ministers of the court and enter the palace to discuss the matter.
The ministers of the Gangshi Kingdom, who had always been pampered, were very anxious when they heard that there was a war in their territory, and the king asked everyone for advice, but no one squeaked. In the end, only the queen suggested to the king that we should organize an army to resist the enemy as soon as possible, and that the enemy was prepared to launch a surprise attack on us, and that at present, it may be difficult for us to win with our own strength, and at the same time immediately send troops to resist the enemy's attack, we should send people to quickly ask for help from the Cuizhu Kingdom. In order to obtain the rescue of the Cuizhu Kingdom, the king decided to let the queen personally go to the capital of the Cuizhu Kingdom to meet the king.
Yuan Wei, the secretary of the military department, led a loose team of the kingdom with great reluctance, and rushed listlessly towards Qingfeng City. Mashi City, the capital of this granite country, is relatively far away from Qingfeng City, and I feel that I am all going to send this team to death, basically stop-and-go. They wanted to deliberately delay the time, waiting for the army of the Cuizhu Kingdom to come and help them fight, so that they would not suffer from the war.
Yuan Wei, the secretary of the military department, does not have much talent, his biggest specialty is good at flattery, and he likes to pat on the back. This person also has a very bad shortcoming, he likes the color of women. He took five concubines in his mansion. Whenever he has free time, he will sneak into the folk and hang out with those talented women. This is not very wise to King Gangshi, just because Yuan Wei is good at patting on the back, and he is full of joy when he pats him, so he is happy for a while, and he becomes the official of the Ministry of War.
Yuan Wei led this group of soldiers, delaying all the way, but did not find that the reinforcements from the Cuizhu Kingdom were coming, and finally they arrived outside Qingfeng City. Ye Chang Fei saw that an army came to the outside of the city wall, and when he saw the morale of this team, Ye Chang Fei knew that this was not the reinforcement of the Cuizhu King, in order to defeat this unseemly army as soon as possible, Ye Chang Fei led hundreds of elite soldiers to open the city gate and rush out. This Yuan Wei hurriedly asked a deputy general in his army to come forward to resist, and before this deputy could use a weapon, he was killed by Ye Changfei with a sword. Yuan Wei was so frightened that he immediately turned around and fled, and when the other generals saw that the main generals were fleeing for their lives, they all ran away with their heads in their hands and ran for their lives. I don't want to catch up with Changfei at night, because I feel that it doesn't make much sense to kill such a team at night, because I feel that it doesn't make much sense for such a team to catch up.
Yuan Wei ran wildly all the way and fled into a ravine surrounded by mountain peaks, and some of the soldiers fled and followed. Yuan Wei felt that he could only temporarily hide in this gloomy ravine and survive, and finally pin his hope on the reinforcements of the Cuizhu Kingdom. At present, Yuan Wei has no face to return to the capital, only to find a cave to live in, when he is hungry, he will go to pick wild fruits in the mountains to eat, and when he is thirsty, he will go to the ravine to drink a sip of mountain spring water.
In fact, Gangshi Guo does not pay attention to the development of his own strength, and always pins his hopes on others, hoping that relying on others can solve his country's difficulties, so there will be a guy like Yuan Wei who is not useful at all and becomes the secretary of the military department. They waited left and right, but they didn't wait for the queen to go to the Cuizhu Kingdom to invite rescuers. It turned out that they didn't know that Prime Minister Miao Wen and the Queen Mother had returned to Yecheng to protect the young king and had encountered trouble. Therefore, the supporting army did not come for a long time.