Chapter 610: Encounter with a Robber
Tong Weiyong tried hard to restrain his emotions, and it was obvious that he had failed. His failure lies not only in being played by Li Sheng's thousands of soldiers and horses, but also in the fact that he has no way to control his own destiny now. After gathering all the troops, Tong Weiyong sadly found that in just eight or nine days, Tong Weiyong's own army had been worn off by Li Sheng, and he had lost more than 20,000 troops. Of course, this is not important, the most important thing now is the information sent by the scouts, the information sent by Tong Weiyong that makes Tong Weiyong want to kill.
"Are you talking about all the grain and grass burned? The entire logistics camp is gone, and Tong Zhonghu and Zhu Yao have been arrested? Are you sure?" This is the third time Tong Weiyong has asked the same question, Tong Weiyong very much hopes that his scout will say that the news is fake, it is the second young master who specially asked the younger brother to tease the handsome, the handsome don't have to take it seriously, the grain and grass you need is on the way, you can send it to the big camp tonight, this big handsome doesn't need to be careful, and the rear has already loaded all kinds of materials and sent them over one after another, the young marshal asked the little one to tease the big handsome before saying the good news, test the big handsome's mental endurance, I didn't expect the big marshal's mental endurance to be so strong。
"The marshal, the news is true, the grain and grass camp in the rear has all been burned, and the young marshal and the young lady have also been captured by the other party, and the other party is still shouting that he wants to offer conditions for the marshal to ransom them. The scout was on his knees, a bandage hanging from his arm between his neck, and there was a lot of blood all over his body, apparently having just been through a battle. Scouts have since often disappeared for no apparent reason. The scout teams dispatched were all dispatched in the form of hundreds. And all at a time, a team of 1,000 people was dispatched. The distance between the ten centurians was not very far, and they echoed each other from a distance to prevent being suddenly attacked by each other. This thousand-person team was sent to the rear to urge the grain and grass, but I didn't expect the grain and grass to come, but a person came to urge the life.
Boom, Tong Weiyong, who was sitting in the handsome position with a blushing face and was worried about the haunting Li Sheng, couldn't stand it anymore, pulled out the treasure knife on his waist with a bang, and rushed towards the scout who was kneeling on the ground with a bright blade. Zhang Bao, who was also with a sad face on the side, saw that the situation was not good. Grabbed his eldest brother. However, Tong Weiyong was already angry, and he couldn't suppress it, he broke free from Zhang Bao's hand and slashed straight down, and the bright blade suddenly made the scout kneeling on the ground shake his eyes, and his body was weak, and he knew that he couldn't escape no matter what, so he could only wait for his handsome knife with his neck stalked.
"Ahh The scout retrieved a life from the Ghost Gate Pass, and escaped from the camp without his life. Tong Weiyong raised the knife in his hand indiscriminately and continued to slash at the air. Let the generals around him retreat, for fear that the treasure knife in Tong Weiyong's hand will have a crooked eye and slash at his body.
Tong Weiyong also wants to cry now, is Nima fighting a war? When he and Yuwen Chengdu fought, they were all one-on-one, soldier against soldier, general against general, and the one who came was also happy. But now, there is a group of demons on the other side, and they are praised for saying that they are demons, because the demons are not as smart as them. Or to put it bluntly, just say that they are not human. Tong Weiyong wanted to cry now, he originally thought that the troops left behind in Yongzhou's Yuwen Chengdu had been disabled, and he took advantage of the Liangzhou army to rest and quickly occupy Yongzhou City, so that they could come out of the front line of Qinshan and echo the eight imperial merchants and Zhang Rang in the imperial capital, right, but what was the result? First, the scout was killed, and then a Li Sheng appeared inexplicably, beating his second brother to lose his temper, and he was also swept off the horse with a knife.
The rest is even more shameless, relying on his own bravery in the process, with his three thousand cavalry, it is really a god to block and kill God, and a Buddha to block and kill Buddha. Kicking the camp is as easy as playing at home, and he has set up ambushes several times, but he has been beaten by the other party. Although Tong Weiyong knew that there must be spies of the other party in his army, otherwise Li Sheng would not have been able to grasp the intelligence of his army so easily, but Tong Weiyong was also worried, he couldn't find out, he didn't know who it was, and he didn't even have a suspect, what kind of thing was this? Li Sheng was shameless, and Yue Fei, who had not yet shown his face, was even more shameless, and even let people raid his rear and kill his own grain and grass camp, kidnapping his son and daughter-in-law who had not passed through the door. I admit to the kidnapping, the war is supposed to be done by both sides, but can you not let my army know. Are you robbers or bandits, the first thing you did to kidnap my son was not to force me to withdraw from the army, but to force me to hand over grain, grass, horses, weapons and armor to ransom people. Who are you, the bandits haven't done anything like you, Tong Weiyong now wants to find Yue Fei, and after a few drinks with him, let him ask for advice on this tactic, of course, that haunting Li Sheng also has to be good to ask for advice, it's too torturous, three thousand cavalry, three thousand cavalry almost collapsed.
"Big brother, we can't do anything now that we're in a hurry, we must find a way to rescue Zhonghu now, or then Fang Fang will be uneasy!" Zhang Bao looked at his eldest brother who was about to run away, and had to remind. There is really no way to do this, Tong Zhonghu's position is too important, if Tong Zhonghu is not rescued, none of them want to fight on the front line safely. Now the first task of the Tong Family Army is not to capture Yongzhou City, but to redeem Tong Zhonghu from the hands of the Shenwu Army.
Zhang Bao's words finally calmed Tong Weiyong, as the commander of the three armed forces, he must always stay sober. Tong Weiyong thought that he was very skilled in the art of war, but when he met Li Sheng and Yue Fei, he realized that his attainments in the art of war were too low, and he was far from being the opponent of Yue Fei and Li Sheng in terms of the deployment of troops, the arrangement of battles, and harassment. Tong Weiyong is also very angry now, Tong Zhonghu was arrested, and the other party is in a dilemma now that he is blackmailing his son. Although the other party did not ask for his own withdrawal. But everyone knows it. At this time, when he was marching, he was shoving his son under the butcher's knife of the other party. Tong Weiyong glanced at his eldest son who was in the army, Tong Zhonglong, and saw the other party standing there with a straight face, obviously angry about this matter, but how much emotion there was in it, only Tong Zhonglong himself knew, after all, his identity was a little embarrassing in the Tong family.
"Zhonglong, what do you say should be done in this matter?" Tong Weiyong didn't have the heart to think about the emotional problems between the two brothers. Generally speaking, his eldest son is still quite satisfied, except for the fact that he was not born well, he is very similar to what he looked like when he was young in all aspects, and he can be sure that his son's achievements in the future will definitely surpass his own. But it's always a matter of birth, this eldest son still can't be the head of the family, suddenly some thoughts flashed in Tong Weiyong's head, just let Tong Zhonghu die, so that Tong Zhonglong can take his place, of course, this idea can only be a matter of a moment, Tong Weiyong knows very well, if Tong Zhonghu is killed because of his own will. His fate is not much better, and the tigress at home is ready to go. The fangs have been bared.
"Yes. Tong Zhonglong, who was standing there, was stunned by Tong Weiyong's question, and hurriedly stood up and said to his father: "Father, the other party is now holding our life, and now our first task is not to conquer Yongzhou City, but to rescue the second brother, otherwise the rear is unstable, even if we conquer Yongzhou City, we may not be able to take advantage of the confrontation with the Liangzhou army." Father, if you go outside, you must first settle inside!"
If you go outside, you must first settle inside, this sentence made Tong Weiyong's heart chuckle. Tong Zhonglong's words surprised Tong Weiyong, at least from Tong Zhonglong's face, Tong Weiyong saw true feelings, an impulse to desperately want to be his second brother. If you are fighting desperately in front, there are people in the rear who are constantly dragging you back, taking advantage of the fact that you can't control me in front, grabbing turf, grabbing people, and when you finish the battle, you look back and find that you have made a wedding dress for others, and you have nothing left, this kind of battle is still a fart! Although Tong Weiyong now belongs to the Eight Great Emperor Merchants, everyone has their own ambitions, Tong Weiyong is not the other, the empire is already in chaos, Ru Tongqing started a new round of shili shuffle thousands of years ago, and how many chips he can get depends on his performance in this war.
Tong Weiyong really wants to have his own shili and territory, and Tong Weiyong also knows that he is far from being able to compete with the Eight Great Emperors, but someone can. Liu Fan, a member of the royal family who occupied Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Xuzhou, most of Yizhou, Yuzhou and Yongzhou City, can. Sitting on a million male soldiers, thousands of generals, strategists like clouds, personal strength is also unusually strong, and now Yizhou and the sea clan are fighting inseparably, but people are not afraid, although the state corps has not yet expressed its position, but the Jiaozhou corps has now become a thing in people's pockets. Although these two legions have experienced a major defeat, and their strength is far inferior to before, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, as long as the military soul is still there, they are still a strong army, although the military soul is very nothing.
"Father, what the other party wants is nothing more than money, food, war horses, armor and other things, and we don't lack these things. If we can exchange the life of the second brother, it will be worth it to give us as much as possible. The opponent only has 30,000 soldiers to fight, even if he uses these things to raise an army of 200,000, how can he be the opponent of our 200,000 tiger and wolf army? Give them, as long as we occupy Yongzhou City, these things will return to our hands, if we don't give them, our mother's side..." Tong Zhonglong spoke very measuredly, although he wanted to say too much, it was best to make his father angry and let the other party wipe his neck regardless of his second brother, but Tong Zhonglong couldn't say it. Unlike others, he knew his father's ambitions, so he proposed Mrs. Ma, the Changfang of the Tong family, in Zuihou, which meant to tell Tong Weiyong that our situation is not optimistic now, and we have to send people under the fence, and the father must not be impulsive, in order to change his son Mrs. Ma, he is willing to do anything.
"Well, tell me to go down and postpone the march. Tong Weiyong couldn't hear what his son meant, Tong Weiyong's eyes flashed with a light that was imperceptible to ordinary people, and this essence was keenly caught by Tong Zhonglong, and Tong Zhonglong sneered in his heart. Tong Weiyong found his marching military advisor Wu Xuexue, and after a serious explanation, he sent him to the rear to negotiate with his wife, in short. He guarded the army in front and did not give the other side a chance. You are in the back, hurry up and find a way to rescue your son first. As for what the other party wants and what he needs to do, he will fully cooperate without saying anything.
After the Tong Jiajun army assembled, they marched towards Yongzhou City in less than two days, and then they retreated with their banners, and they looked a little sad when they left this time. The army set off violently, and without achieving anything, they went back like this. Tong Weiyong is also angry now, so he can only practice martial arts in the process of the army, and vent all his frustration. Of course, anyway. Tong Weiyong still knows what his priority is, the retreat of the army only represents an attitude, there is no way to hold his handle in the hands of others, and there is no way to retreat.
Compared with Tong Weiyong's army, Li Sheng's life is not very easy now, although Li Sheng relies on his strong strength, every time he tears the opponent's defense and easily brings his subordinates back. But the opponent's army was not paper, and the battle also caused Li Sheng's army to quickly attrition. If it weren't for Yue Fei in the rear who urgently transferred 2,000 reinforcements to Li Sheng, Li Sheng would have reached the point where there were no soldiers available. The other party is weak and not soft persimmon.
Li Sheng stood not far away, observing Tong Weiyong's army slowly withdrawing, and finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, Li Sheng already knew what was happening in the rear. Li Sheng also did not expect that the two armies he released would achieve such great results. The military reports in front have also been passed over one after another, Yue Fei has already led the army to fight with the Liangzhou army, although the Liangzhou army was also beaten by Yue Fei, and it is almost impossible to find the southeast and northwest, but after all, the strength of the people is still there, and it is not possible to defeat them in a short time, and Yue Fei has not many soldiers to fight in his hands, and the strongest combat power is still in Li Sheng's hands, and how much time can be bought now is very beneficial to the battle ahead.
"General, the Tong family army has retreated, aren't we?" A captain came to Li Sheng's side, and in less than half a month, Li Sheng's elusive combat Jihua really made these soldiers admire Li Sheng from the bottom of their hearts. Just said that Tong Jiajun's several ambushes not only did not achieve the expected results, but were beaten by Li Sheng's troops. Li Sheng's leading troops has indeed won the respect of these soldiers from the bottom of their hearts, and Li Sheng's leading troops has indeed made these soldiers feel very secure.
"We continue to follow them from a distance, General Ma and General Nian in the rear are still fighting with the enemy, if we retreat at this time, the two generals will not be supported by our troops, and they are likely to fall into the enemy's encirclement, and then our efforts will all be in vain. ”
"General, then what should we do next? Now the brothers are basically all injured, and the physical exertion is very great, should we throw off their army and go to the rear to join the two generals?" The lieutenant frowned and looked at Li Sheng and asked, this kind of big battle Li Sheng's soldiers under Li Sheng's physical strength consumption is very strong, they have to be ready to flee anytime and anywhere, ready to kick the enemy's battalion, it can be said that their nerves are tense every day, and they are very tight, and they may be tensed at any time.
"No, we just need to open a breakthrough before their army is encircled, as long as we catch them, I don't think Tong Weiyong dares to joke with us with Tong Zhonghu's life. The two of them will be fine for a while with Tong Zhonghu, but before that we have to go to a place. Li Sheng smiled and said to the officers around him, Tong Zhonghu is now the life-saving talisman of the entire Yongzhou City, as long as Tong Zhonghu is still in Tong Weiyong, he will not dare to act rashly.
The generals looked at a point on the map with Li Sheng's finger, and a hint of surprise appeared on their faces. They didn't expect Li Sheng's jihua to be like this at all, and the leapfrog thinking of this tactic was too big. I have to say that after the grain and grass camp in the rear was burned down by Ma Chao and Nian Qianyao, the grain and grass camp in Muma Town has now become the only logistics supply point for the Tong Army, and more importantly, it is under the protection of Tong Weiyong's army, and now Li Sheng also wants to burn this place, is this possible?
"You don't have to worry, of course I'm not really going to burn their grain and grass, I have another purpose for this battle. Li Sheng explained to the generals with a smile, this battle Jihua Li Sheng also thought about it for a long, long time before deciding, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Muma Town can be said to be a hornet's nest now, Li Sheng wants to know what kind of impact this hornet's nest will have on the situation in the entire Yongzhou, so Li Sheng decided to give it a try.
"We swear to follow the general!" A trace of resoluteness flashed on the faces of the generals, Li Sheng's battle has never failed, they have absolute confidence in Li Sheng, they are not afraid of any difficulties, and the swords in their hands can make any enemy surrender in front of their war horses......!