The city of Chuzhou, which is in the northwest direction of Tianfu, has been "the key of Jinling and the guarantee of Jianghuai" since ancient times. On the same day, Anfeng fell, Liu Futong was killed in battle, and Wuxu and Zhao Tong rescued Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, and his son Han Kuang to Chuzhou.

Zhu Yuanzhang sent the general Liao Yongzhong, with 15,000 soldiers, to be stationed here, and asked people to greatly repair and expand his original marshal's mansion in Chuzhou, and placed Han Lin'er here.

And Wang Baobao learned that Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang fought at Poyang Lake, and took the opportunity to lead the Yuan army of 300,000, and the 200,000 army of Hua Lihu, one left and one right, drove straight into Yingtianfu and Pingjiangfu.

Chuzhou, a small lonely city, has never been put in Wang Baobao's eyes, but it is only divided into 30,000 troops, with a partial general, staying, and will not conquer it soon.

On the day when the army of the Yuan Dynasty passed, Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, and Liao Yongzhong went up to the city tower, looking at the torrent of iron armor, the mountains roared like a tsunami, passing by the sky, and their legs trembled. Fortunately, Liao Yongzhong was calm, stabilized his position, commanded strongly, and after eight or nine days, he still guarded the four city gates tightly. However, a tug-of-war between the attack and defense of the city's head has already lost two or three thousand troops.

On this night, the original Marshal's Mansion and the current Ming Palace's Mansion were brightly lit, Han Lin'er sat on the throne in the main hall, and Han Kuang stood silently on his left side. Below it, on the left, are the army/generals and important staff members led by Liao Yongzhong, and on the right, there are some people in the rivers and lakes, dressed differently, but they are the White Lotus Sect who has been following Liu Futong.

Since escaping to Chuzhou City and living in Zhu Yuanzhang's Marshal's Mansion, Han Lin'er has obviously lost a few more weight, her cheeks are fleshless, her cheekbones are slightly convex, and Zhu Yuanzhang's new python robe looks a little big and inappropriate when worn on her body.

I saw Han Lin'er, his eyes swept slightly below and left and right, and then his eyes wandered to the carved railing and painting on the top of the hall, without saying a word, two slender fingers, unconsciously lightly tapped on the imperial case, as if he was in deep thought.

The person sitting on the left is named Dong Pingshan, who is one of the few surviving elders of the White Lotus Sect in the Battle of An Feng. At this moment, seeing Liao Yongzhong, after waiting for a while, he finally became impatient, and was about to get up and speak again, so he stood up first, and said unhappily, "General Liao, your duty is to protect Chuzhou and protect King Ming." For the rest of the matter, King Ming has his own decision, why should the general repeatedly put his beak in place!"

Liao Yongzhong glanced at Dong Pingshan, and a burst of anger rose in his heart, this person relied on his cultivation of about seven layers of mortal dust, and there was no one in the eyes of the small Chuzhou City, not only criticized himself several times, but also pointed fingers at the White Lotus Sect members in the army, but the Quanzhen Sect leader who followed the army went to Lushan in a hurry.

Then he also stood up, shook the iron armor on his body, clenched his fists, and said to Han Lin'er, the king of Xiao Ming above, "King Ming, the Yuan army went south, cutting off the connection between supplies and the direction of Yingtianfu, and Chuzhou City is already a lonely city. Liao led the soldiers in the city to fight bloody battles day and night, although they barely held the city, but the casualties were not small, and the food in the city was only enough for five or six days. If it continues like this, it will be difficult to hold on, and the safety of King Ming will be in danger. Mo Ruo was reorganized by Liao's subordinates, with grain and grass, protecting the Ming King, the path was circuitous, crossing the river from the vicinity of Zimu Continent and returning to Yingtianfu, so the Ming King was worry-free. ”

"General Liao, don't you also say it, we are now in contact with Ying Tianfu, and the Yuan army is crossing the Yangtze River to fight again. Out of Chuzhou, our thousands of soldiers and horses are lost lambs, deep-sea boats, and they will encounter the Yuan army anytime and anywhere, fall into Baowei, and die without a place to be buried. There was a person on the opposite side, dressed as a scholar, shaking a black fan, and asked.

This is also true.

Liao Yongzhong frowned slightly, and the generals and staff below him were also silent.

Dong Pingshan then snorted slightly, "General Liao, don't look down on Dong and the others." To tell the truth, Dong Mou's former official to the right wing general of the Northern Expedition Middle Road Army, led tens of thousands of soldiers, and fought with the Yuan army no less than 30 times, knowing that when the Yuan army attacked on a large scale, its army was hundreds of miles away, there were elite iron cavalry sentinels, a team of ten people, each with two chasing horses, two pots of black iron arrows, steel knives and soft armor, strong martial arts, and even cultivated magic. There is also an alarm bell blessed by the secret method of Lamaism, which can be transmitted thousands of miles in case of an enemy situation. ”

"No wonder my Great Song Righteous Army, brave and good at fighting, but repeatedly defeated by the Yuan army, it turned out that the Yuan army had such a powerful iron cavalry sentry. In the row on the left, a general spoke up.

"What are you talking about?!" Dong Pingshan and the others stood up one after another, glaring angrily! Liu Futong's three-way northern expedition was immense, and then with the rapid turn of the situation, they were defeated one by one, and finally retreated to Anfeng, and in the midst of the siege, they blew themselves up and triggered the "Quartet Hell Array." This Dong Pingshan and the others have been holding back a breath in their hearts, but now they are being ridiculed by a yellow-mouthed child opposite.

Liao Yongzhong's cadres also stood up,

"If you start a war, you're afraid, you're afraid, then you'll just wait for death in Chuzhou City!"

"That's it, that's it, so afraid of the Yuan Army sentry!"

"We don't want to sit still, if you don't defend Chuzhou City, we will kill Tianfu!"

"Everyone-" Han Lin'er retracted his gaze, raised his wide-sleeved robe, waved it downward, and waited for the left and right sides below to sit down quietly, before facing Liao Yongzhong, Ning Se asked, "General Liao, it's really inappropriate to be alone." From Chuzhou to Yingtianfu, there is now a Yuan army in the middle, and we will find out that Wang Baobao's big tent is in the north of the Yangtze River, between Chuzhou and Yingtianfu. If we wait for a few thousand soldiers and horses, once we are discovered during the march, then General Liao will have a good strategy to break the enemy?"

Liao Yongzhong smiled bitterly. Of course, he knew the danger of abandoning the city, but most of the more than 10,000 soldiers he brought with him were from Jiangnan. Now that the Yuan army is attacking Jiangnan, the sergeants are unstable. Second, this is a secret order sent by Zhu Yuanzhang to a monk, saying that the isolated city of Chuzhou is difficult to defend for a long time, and the current situation in Yingtianfu is urgent, and the troops are insufficient.

But it can't be said, especially in front of everyone, because in the secret order, Zhu Yuanzhang did not mention how to place King Xiaoming. I can't say that this is the military order of the marshal, and the general wants to lead the troops back to Yingtianfu no matter what, you Xiaoming King of the Southern Song Dynasty and others, the marshal did not mention it, and Liao Mou listened to it?

And King Xiao Ming, although the marshal did not mention it, but after all, he is the nominal co-master, and if he wants to lead the army back, he cannot be left behind for the crime of abandoning the master and running away. After Liao Yongzhong thought about it, he said to King Xiao Ming and asked King Xiao Ming to transfer with the army. Unexpectedly, King Xiao Ming returned to Yingtianfu with the army, and his safety became the top priority.

"It seems that the reason why Dashuai didn't mention King Xiao Ming was also considered. But you have to think of your own way. It's best to have the best of both worlds, otherwise, you'll end up with an army of people who want to go. Liao Yongzhong thought in his heart, and replied slowly, "King Yuming, after our army was reorganized into elites, about 10,000 people came out of the west gate at night, and at the same time, the remaining four or five thousand remnants rushed out of the southeast, north and south gates respectively to confuse the Yuan army. Subsequently, we avoided the area of the old mountain, went around the west, passed through Quanjiao, and then turned back, and traveled all night, if there is no accident, we can arrive at Zimu Island at dawn. At present, the Yuan army is attacking with all its strength in the areas of Xiaguan, Yanziji, Huangtiandang, and Qixia Mountain. If we had planned well and acted quickly, we would have been able to make a turn five or six times certain. ”

"Five or six layers, General Liao, King Ming's golden body, how can we let King Ming be in such a dangerous situation?!" The person on the right suddenly shouted in an atmosphere.

Han Lin'er sat there and waved her hand again, and there was silence in the hall again. Han Kuang, who was on his left-hand side, suddenly said in a loud voice, "General Liao, it is also a clever plan to go out of the four gates together, confuse the enemy army, and turn back in a roundabout way." But Chuzhou City and Laoshan, Laoshan and Yingtianfu are already close at hand. If I am the king Baobao, when I hear that General Liao has abandoned the city, I will send a team of soldiers and horses from the Laoshan camp from east to west, capture Quanjiao, and cut off the north-south passage, how can General Liao deal with it?"

As soon as Han Kuang's words came out, someone clapped his hands and shouted, "That's right! When the time comes, will General Liao attack the south, or will he retreat to Chuzhou City?"

"Hmph, I'm afraid that at that time, Chuzhou City would have been lost a long time ago!"

Liao Yongzhong, shocked in his heart, looked up at Han Kuang, who was only five years old above, but he didn't expect that this son was young and young, so he had such an opinion, and blurted out at the moment, "Chuzhou to the Yangtze River region, there are many mountains and roads, and it is a mobile battle, so if Wang Baobao is arranged like this, I am afraid that he will not send fifty or sixty thousand troops to surround our army." But his strategic intention is to respond to Tianfu, will he divide these fifty or sixty thousand elite soldiers?"

The implication is that he does not believe that Wang Baobao is for the sake of a small Chuzhou, a small Ming king who is not worthy of the name, and divides the army to weaken the offensive corresponding to Tianfu.

You must know that on that day, Wang Baobao led the army south, and when he passed through Chuzhou, he did not pay attention to it, but divided 30,000 troops, placed them in the east of Chuzhou, and left. Liao Yongzhong has been defending the city for a few days, and he can see that the number of those besieging the city has never exceeded 20,000, and it is obvious that even the main intention of the 30,000 yuan army is not in Chuzhou City, and it is estimated that the main thing is to ensure the supply of food and grass for the army in front.

I saw Han Kuang, standing next to the dragon chair, unhurried, with a childish voice, and said, "General Liao, I must have seen that the 30,000 yuan army has not attacked our Chuzhou City with all its strength in the past few days, and it must be seen that its main responsibility is to ensure that the army's grain route is unblocked. ”

Liao Yongzhong nodded slightly, but listened to Han Kuangfu ask again, "But when Wang Baobao's army passed through Chuzhou that day, why didn't he take Chuzhou in one fell swoop, so as to completely get rid of the troubles? In this way, only 10,000 soldiers will be needed to guard the grain road on the first line of Chuzhou, and the surplus 20,000 can go south with the army." ”

Liao Yongzhong, looking up at the moment, pondered for a moment, and replied cautiously, "Wang Baobao wants to take advantage of the battle between the marshal and Chen Youliang in Poyang Lake, drive thousands of miles forward, and go straight to Yingtianfu. The so-called soldiers are fast, although Chuzhou City is a land of projectiles, and there are only 20,000 soldiers, but if you want to take it, I am afraid that it will be delayed for a day, because his 300,000 army is a multi-way side by side, and there are not 300,000 people who pass through Chuzhou City, at most 70,000 or 80,000. ”

"General Liao, worthy of being a veteran of the battlefield, is exactly what I expected. Han Kuang, staring at Liao Yongzhong's sparkling eyes, teased Guan Zi, "But-"

Han Kuang and Liao Yongzhong answered one-on-one here, and everyone in the hall looked at each other. Although Han Kuang, a young son, usually looks smart and clever, after all, he is only five years old, how can he understand military affairs? Everyone in the palace couldn't help but look at Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, thinking that Han Lin'er had instructed him to say it, but they didn't know that Han Lin'er also looked at Han Kuang with a surprised face.

Seeing Dong Pingshan again, with a suspicious look on his face, he glanced at the top of the main hall a few times, released his divine sense, and swept around the main hall, but he found nothing. So I had to press the guess in my heart, look at Han Kuang, and wait for Han Kuang to be gone, what else could I say?

Han Kuang smiled shyly, shook his head, and continued, "However, Wang Baobao's frog jumping tactic has another purpose. ”

Oh, frog jumping tactics, is this Han Kuang's childlike innocence?

There was a lot of talking.

But when he saw Han Kuang, he suddenly turned to one side, took a few steps back, and bowed to Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, before he got up again to face the people below, "My father is the king of the Southern Song Dynasty, and he has been handed down by Liu Laocheng for a long time, and he is actually the co-lord of the world." That Wang Baobao arranged it like this, but in the end, he intended to capture his father alive and seize the White Lotus Order, a holy relic of the White Lotus Sect. ”

Liu Futong entrusted the White Lotus Order to Wuxu for temporary safekeeping on the same day, this matter was extremely secretive, in addition to Pan Ruoxue of Dongji Island, it was Zhao Tong and Han Lin'er, Han Kuang and his son. Someone asked before, but Han Lin'er and Han Kuang said they didn't know.

Now, Han Kuang mentioned it himself. Come to think of it, I was afraid that I would leak the wind and be remembered. You must know that the White Lotus Order is refined from the relics of the true monks of the White Lotus Sect, and its own power is infinite. At the same time, it is also the holy relic of the White Lotus Sect, on the day Han Shantong and Liu Futong relied on this, gathered the people of the Ten Directions, opened the altar to say the Dharma, and plotted to start an incident; Every time there is a ceremony, Liu Futong will hold the White Lotus Order, lead hundreds of civil and military officials, and thousands of people of the White Lotus Sect to chant sutras and hold mantras. Some people say that the White Lotus Order has been channeled, and some people say that holding the White Lotus Order can command the White Lotus Sect members in the world.

Hearing only a plop, Dong Pingshan suddenly led a group of White Lotus Sect members and knelt on the ground, "I am willing to go to the soup to fight the fire, protect King Ming and the White Lotus Holy Order, and never give up." Immediately, inside and outside the main hall, all the members of the White Lotus Sect, whether they were slaves or sergeants, all knelt on the ground one after another, chanting Amitabha Buddha and various White Lotus Sect slogans.

Suddenly, I saw that in the main hall, there was suddenly a white lotus phantom, rising out of thin air, a piece of petals, constantly blooming from the middle, as if endless, with the blooming of the petals, everyone felt a great might, falling from the sky, getting stronger and stronger.

Dong Pingshan and the others had already knelt on the ground, but they didn't feel anything. That Liao Yongzhong and the others stood there, their expressions kept changing, and finally they were also smiling, kneeling on the ground towards the white lotus in the middle of the hall, their hands folded, and they were extremely religious.

When the white lotus disperses, everyone will come together. That Liao Yongzhong was the first to come out of the ranks, bowing to Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, extremely respectful, "I don't know King Ming, what is the send?"

Han Lin'er, the king of Xiao Ming, was stunned, it seemed that happiness came too quickly. But when he saw Han Kuang, he took a step forward and said, "Quickly reorganize your subordinates, and tonight, go out of the city from the north gate and ambush the enemy's grain road." ”

"Yes!" Liao Yongzhong suddenly received the order, and led his subordinates to retreat.

"Elder Dong," Han Kuang saw Liao Yongzhong retreating, and called Dong Pingshan again, although his voice was crisp and small, it exuded a majesty and mystery.

Dong Pingshan, who was guessing in his heart, hurriedly bowed down, and his face was also solemn.

"You lead the members of your sect to ten meters inside the gate of the four directions, open the altar, and drop it on this thing with your blood, and wait for it to turn red and bury it in the soil. Then within an hour, turn back to the main hall and listen to the order. I saw four small black flags appear in front of Han Qian and fly into Dong Pingshan's hands.

The four small black flags are very ordinary, they look like they are hastily made of ordinary black cloth, there is no edge around them, and the flagpole is not wood or gold, and it is fluttering lightly in the hand. Suddenly, Dong Pingshan felt a pain in his heart, and a side whisker on a banner suddenly became extremely sharp, stabbing a small hole in his palm, and a drop of blood gushed out, dyed on the black flag, and turned into a small purple and black dot. A spirit, hurriedly distributed the four black flags to everyone. Then, he also hurried away.

In the empty and deep hall, except for a few palace maids, only Han Lin'er and his son remained, and a graceful figure slowly walked in from outside the main hall door.

Han Kuang, when he saw it, ran forward excitedly and shouted, "Aunt Zhao, it's really you!?"

Han Lin'er looked at the woman who was getting closer and closer, staring blankly, and it took a long time to wake up, and she hurriedly got up, "Miss Zhao!"

The bewitching woman in white gauze smiled slightly at Han Lin'er, and then leaned over at Han Kuang, who ran over, while rubbing Han Kuang's black hair on the top of his head, and laughed in a low voice, "You have already guessed it, haven't you?"

Han Kuang replied with a smile, "Aunt Zhao, your voice is still so good, Kuang'er has always kept it in mind since she heard it in the Anfeng Black Dragon Palace. Then he grabbed Zhao Tong's arm and shook it, "Aunt Zhao, what is the frog jumping tactic? As soon as I said it just now, they were all staring at each other, and they didn't understand it at all." ”

Zhao Tong laughed, and after a while, patted Han Kuang's head lovingly, Fang took Han Kuang's hand again, walked to Han Lin'er, who had already descended to the palace, and looked at it a few times, "Although the joy of fish and water is good, it must be controlled a little." The hatred of the country and the family, the great cause of this religion, can the king of Ming forget it?"

Han Lin'er smiled and replied, "Han Lin'er doesn't dare." Miss Zhao just asked Kuang'er's mouth, and made some arrangements, I don't know if I can be sure?

Zhao Tong, with a wave of his hand, fascinated all the palace maids in the hall, and then lightly opened his lips and said categorically, "I have inquired clearly, the Yuan army tonight, there will be a large army of grain and grass passing through the Chuzhou border. After the robbery, the army will go north and enter Hongze Lake!"

At night, the north gate of Chuzhou City slowly opened, and more than 10,000 sergeants quietly went out of the city and went straight to the military tent of the Yuan army in the north of the city. Zhao Tong opened the way in front, and all the dark sentinels arranged were killed one by one and disappeared in the deep night. More than 10,000 elites led by Liao Yongzhong descended the mountain like a tiger. Many Yuan troops, in their blatant sleep, rushed to the Netherworld Yellow Spring.

That night, Wang Baobao was in the big tent of the Phoenix Mountain in Laoshan Mountain, and he was reading the military documents of the past few days in detail. Suddenly, there was an urgent report, and a sergeant, panting, reported that the army's grain and grass had been robbed near Chuzhou. Wang Baobao flew out of the big tent, looked dozens of miles ahead, only to see the sky, the demonic qi was vertical and horizontal, and a woman's figure flew to the north, frowning slightly, "Zhao Tong, she actually went down to Lushan Prison Demon Peak?"

When he flew to the vicinity of Chuzhou, Wang Baobao suddenly saw that the gates of Chuzhou City were wide open on all sides, the wind was gusting, the black clouds were rolling, and the Yuan army that broke into it had just stepped through the city gate, and they fell to the ground one after another. Wang Baobao, snorted lightly, sacrificed the vajra that had fought with Wuxu before, and recited the mantra, and the prayer wheel was flooded with golden light, accompanied by bursts of chanting, turned into the size of a hundred zhang, like a spear, pierced in the boundary of the Ming Wangfu in Chuzhou City. The Ming Palace's mansion collapsed, and then four palm-sized black flags flew into the air from near the four gates of Chuzhou City and disappeared.

Wang Baobao, and then sealed his hands, his forehead flashed red, and a golden light shot north. But I saw that the four black flags were fluttering in the distance of the sky, hanging down thousands of black lights, enveloping Han Lin'er, Liao Yongzhong and others and their subordinates. Suddenly, Zhao Tong, who was at the forefront, turned around and waved his sleeves, the black veil covered the sky, and the vision disappeared.

Wang Baobao's heart shook, and the only thing he thought about was to give the order. Subsequently, the Yuan army along the Yangtze River slowly retreated.

That's right

Little Han Kuang talked about the avenue, and the faint white lotus was soulless.

Even if the enemy army learns frog jumping, how can they know that their aunt's skills are wonderful.