Chapter 124: The Ice City Conspiracy (4)
An Zhiluo was overjoyed to say goodbye to Tie Lang, Tie Lang really did not break his promise, and when passing through Huangzhou, he asked Cai Zhonghui to help when he was in crisis, and Cai Zhonghui also readily agreed.
But he didn't know that as soon as he said it, he left Cai Zhonghui, a Qilu man, in Qingtang forever. Two months later, Li Yuanhao really led his troops in person, and he couldn't capture Maoniucheng for a long time, so he opened the gate of Maoniucheng with fraud and earnings.
Although he was well prepared, he was also frightened in the face of Li Yuanhao's army, and at that time, An Zhiluo saw that Qing Tang was in a hurry, so he really recommended Cai Zhonghui to him.
Cai Zhonghui entered the Buddhist scriptures against the heavy snow, and he was contemplating his eyebrows, An Zhiluo screamed softly, and then he hurriedly stood up.
Cai Zhong went back and saluted: "Cai Zhong has seen the big leader back. ”
He stepped forward and took Cai Zhonghui's hand and said with a smile: "I have heard Mr. An Zhiluo in advance for a long time, I have long admired him, and I only saw it today, and I have deceived Nanling Wen." ”
Cai Zhonghui smiled slightly and said, "Why does the big leader call Cai a gentleman instead of a general?"
He also smiled slightly and said, "Why is Mr. called the big leader and not praised Pu?" After speaking, the two laughed and sat down to discuss in detail.
It was obvious that he had asked Cai Zhong to come back to talk about the Communist Party, but he never mentioned it, but just asked about Cai Zhonghui's old affairs, and Cai Zhonghui also knew it and talked eloquently.
After listening to Cai Zhonghui's old story, he said slowly: "When Mr. first arrived in Huangzhou, he used military rations to relieve the people of Tibet, and I have long been grateful for Mr. Benevolent. ”
Cai Zhong replied to see that he wanted to cut to the point, so he also said with a straight face: "I came to Huangzhou on the order of the Great Song Emperor to assist the big leader to help the people of Tubo, and no matter how Han was born to his parents, how can I bear it, the big leader must not worry about it." ”
He nodded and said, "Is this the only ambition that Mr. has here?"
Cai Zhonghui knew that he wanted to show an attitude, so he pushed the case and said: "Although I am stupid and dull, I see the sages and think together, if I wish to be the Deng Xun of the Han, I will die without regrets." ”
Deng Xun is the captain of the Western Han Dynasty to protect the Qiang, the Qiang people are very careful, after Deng Xun died, the Qiang people will set up a temple to worship, worship from generation to generation, and the incense is continuous.
Seeing Cai Zhong's reply as to this, he also pushed the case forward, and said movingly: "If Mr. is invited to come today, I am asked to help me resist the party thieves, if Mr. is like Deng Xun, how can the people of Tubo be inferior to the Qiang people." ”
On the second day, Cai Zhonghui took the Great Song sergeant into Qingtang City, but when the Great Song sergeant entered the city, he was all bare-handed, and when he saw An Zhiluo, Cai Zhonghui asked him to go outside the city to transport the Great Song ordnance into the city.
After hearing this, he excitedly said: "Mr. Cai, he is clever, thoughtful, and knows the etiquette of advance and retreat, he is indeed a rare talent, and I will personally ask for advice in the future." ”
After Cai Zhong returned to the city, he waited for Li Yuanhao's army to come to the city, and asked if the people around An Zhiluo had withdrawn into the hinterland of Tubo, An Zhiluo nodded and said: "There are no more vagrants within a hundred miles of Qingtang City, please rest assured." ”
Li Yuanhao attacked under Qingtang City for more than 200 days, during which there were several times when the city defense was about to be broken, but Cai Zhonghui and An Zhiluo resisted desperately, which turned the crisis into safety.
Seeing that Li Yuanhao had been fighting outside the city for nearly ten months, he summoned Cai Zhonghui and An Zhiluo and asked: "I see that Li Yuanhao's party and thief army can't retreat for a while, why don't you recruit our 100,000 ambush soldiers, attack inside and outside, and defeat them in one fell swoop." ”
Cai Zhong replied: "The big leader doesn't know, I look at the party camp every day, and the cooking smoke is decreasing day by day, presumably the grain and grass are unsustainable, and I will break it within a few days." ”
After a long silence, An Zhiluo said again: "Zampu, General Cai has already planned for each other, and the party army will be defeated." ”
Still hesitating, Cai Zhong replied: "When the Dang Xiang Army first crossed the Zongge River, it was the winter and spring season, and the river was shallow, and it was already after the rainy season, and the river water rose sharply, and my spies had already discovered the crossing mark left by Li Yuanhao when he crossed the river, and had already moved it down several miles to the depth. ”
The nervousness eased slightly, but he still asked uneasily: "If there is no expulsion, only a few dozen people will be killed in Heshen, and it is better than nothing in tens of thousands of party and troops." ”
Cai Zhong replied that his anxiety had reached the limit, so he pondered for a moment and said: "General An, you ordered the army of Huangzhou to go straight to Qingtang City at noon tomorrow with all the clothes of the Song army. ”
When he heard this, he said with a happy face: "I didn't expect Mr. to be like this, and he was comfortable with Nanling's warmth, and the way of using soldiers was all up to Mr. Strategizing." ”
Cai Zhonghui smiled lightly and said, "Does the big leader have the courage to chase the enemy?"
He smiled and said, "Mr. is not afraid of death when he comes from thousands of miles away, how can he fall behind Mr. Lingwen if he bullies Nanlingwen." ”
Cai Zhong replied: "As soon as the Dangxiang army retreats tomorrow, I will ask the big leader to raise troops out of the city, and only need to drive the Dangxiang army to ten miles of the Zongge River, and then you can stop the troops and return by themselves." ”
But he said: "Sir, don't underestimate and bully Nanlingwen, I will unify my 100,000 warriors in Tubo and annihilate the party's thief army, so that the party will never dare to look southwest." ”
Cai Zhonghui thanked for his courageous decision, so he did not stop it, and on the second day, the city saw a group of military horses in Song army costumes coming in the dust, so the drums sounded loudly, and thousands of arrows were fired in the city.
Li Yuanhao has not been able to attack for a long time, he has already been a little slack, and the sergeant has become a tired soldier, and the siege of the city has long been not as brave as before, and he has long been accustomed to the lazy defense of the city.
The sergeant who insisted on Song Arrow happened to enter the account together with the spies who came to report that Song Jun had come from the east, and Li Yuanhao was shocked when he heard it: "I am not in a hurry or impatient, but it turns out that I have already communicated with Song Jun, and I will retreat as soon as possible." ”
Zhang Yuan was also panicked when he heard this, and hurriedly added: "King Xia, I will retreat in a hurry to prevent the Tubo army in the city from chasing and killing." ”
Li Yuanhao nodded and said: "The order will go down, and the besieging troops will shoot bows and arrows, and they will retreat after three rounds." ”
In the city, Cai Zhong returned to see that he was waiting under the city tower with his armor, so he explained: "Big leader, the Xia soldiers retreat, there will be archers to cover the back, and the big leader of Wanwang is careful." ”
Who knew that the words fell, and he listened to the sound of eating in the sky, and poor Cai Zhonghui was shot in the back of the head by an arrow and fell down the city wall.
Seeing Cai Zhonghui falling, he knew that there was no possibility of survival, sadness and anger surged into his heart together, and he raised the saber in his hand and shouted: "Warriors, kill the enemy with me." ”
In the minds of the Tibetan people, he is the son of the Buddha, and is admired by all the people.
Chasing and killing all the way, coupled with the 100,000 ambush soldiers by the Zongge River, chased and killed the party people along the river, causing the party to be left with two or three out of ten, and the people did not dare to look southwest forever, and the history of the Western Xia for more than 100 years never dared to have the heart of Jinyu to Tubo.
Tie Lang only learned about a year later that Cai Zhong had returned to the plateau, and he couldn't help but sigh. Later, whenever Tie Lang saw that Song Jiang was mediocre and cowardly, he would think of Cai Zhonghui: How could the Han family have been less resourceful and brave people in the world, but they were not in their position and could not be used.
In the history of China, there are not only heroes who use the body of the Han family to benefit the people of different races, but also there are no lack of traitors and scum who use the body of the Han family to help the foreign race to harm the Han family.
Cai Zhonghui did not live up to his ambition to be Deng Xun, and the people of the plateau did not live up to Cai Zhonghui's benevolent heart, although thousands of years later, Cai Zhonghui is still the god of good fortune on the plateau.