37 The Stratagem of the Beast
Hearing that more than 200 Japanese robbers led by Niwa Kazuha had escaped from Gu Yun City, everyone was furious and hurriedly asked about the next battle. However, Fan Shentong was in a hurry to come to meet everyone, and Gu Yuncheng had already arrived as soon as he broke it, so he didn't know what happened after that. Everyone didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly followed Fan Shentong's team to continue to rush to the direction of Gu Yuncheng, braved the rain and traveled for more than 30 miles, and more than ten horsemen rushed in the dark night ahead.
I saw that Lin Yi's right arm was wounded in an instant, and it was hastily bandaged with rags, and the wound was soaked with gushing blood at this time. Fan Shentong stepped forward to ask about the injury, but he shook his head and pushed it away, and said hatefully: "Compared to the injury of the young general, a few small injuries are not enough to worry about......! Alas, at this moment, he has been recuperating in Gu Yuncheng, although he can barely keep one of his left arms, but he has a knife wound to the bone in his shoulder, and he will have to recuperate for half a year to recover. Moreover, the knife of the old thief Niwa was very ruthless, and the wound went down from the left forehead, not only cutting half of his face, but also completely ruining one of his left eyes!"
Xie Yixiang has always been extremely curious about the identity of this "young general", but when he heard Lin Yi's account of the escape from the Japanese invaders, it was inconvenient to ask questions and interrupt. It turned out that among the three Japanese forces in Gu Yun City, most of the people of the "Kendo Small Art of War" and "Koga Ninjutsu" were outside to pursue the remnants of the army led by everyone, plus the reinforcements sent from the city after receiving the flying pigeon for help last night, almost all of these two Japanese forces were burned in the woods by the "Vermilion Bird Fire" of De Yizi, except for a few leaders, Gu Yun City was full of people who were "Zhongtiao Yidaoliu". After a battle in the early hours of this morning, after the "White Tiger" and the "Green Dragon" two teams of men and horses, in the end, only more than 200 survivors fled north along the East China Sea under the leadership of the thief leader "Sword Saint" Niwa Kazuha.
In this regard, the "Green Dragon" team, composed of 1,000 Hengwang rebels, divided into two routes, half stayed in Guyun City to clear the remnants and pacify the people, and the other half went out of the city to pursue the fleeing Japanese invaders. Because the soldiers knew that the Japanese were fierce, with only more than 500 people, they really didn't dare to catch up and fight, so they could only follow the approach from a distance and wait for the opportunity to act.
Fortunately, the more than 200 Japanese robbers were the army of the defeated army, and their morale was greatly lost, and after escaping all the way for more than 30 miles, they all hid on a hill by the sea to rest, and sent the masters to guard the road up the mountain. The sergeants did not dare to fight with him, so they could only stand under the hill and shoot arrows upward, causing a stalemate between the two sides.
Hearing this, Yan Sidao couldn't help frowning slightly, and hurriedly asked about the topography of the hill. Lin Yidian said: "It's just an ordinary reef on the East China Sea, but the terrain is higher, with a protrusion of more than ten zhang and a radius of more than ten acres, forming a small hill in the reef; there are no fortifications or houses on it, and there is not even a single plant or tree on it. According to the locals, this place is called 'Wangfu Stone', which is a pair of brothers and sisters who knelt on the beach all day long to bow down, looking forward to the return of their father who went missing from the sea. ”
Yan Sidao listened straight to his eyebrows, and turned his head to De Yizi and asked, "Xiao Dao Chief, what do you think?" De Yizi did not answer, still in a posture that it was none of his business. Yan Sidao pondered for a moment, and said: "There is no supply on that hill, no shelter, and no way to escape, why did the defeated Japanese choose to flee here? After saying that, he turned his head to greet Xie Yixiang and shouted, "You go with me." ”
Xie Yixiang couldn't help but be stunned, and Yan Sidao asked the accompanying sergeant to ask for a military horse, and skillfully turned over. Seeing Xie Yixiang standing still, he smiled and said, "You are still stunned, do you want to share a horse with me again?" Xie Yixiang's cheeks suddenly turned red, and she said, "You are presumptuous!" Yan Sidao said with a smile: "In the past, in the battle of the Taiyuan Temple of the Purple Mountain, you and I also had a friendship of co-riding, why are you twisted now? Could it be that you have a small path leader, so you like the new and hate the old?"
Xie Yi's aroma was furious, but he also knew that it was urgent to pursue and suppress the remnants of the Japanese invaders. Unexpectedly, yesterday they were chased and killed by the Japanese in the forest, and the situation can be described as hanging by a thread. She also wanted to ask the meaning of the first son beside her, but she saw that the first son had already faced the autumn rain and was moving forward in the direction of Gu Yuncheng, and Fan Shentong and Lin Yitong under her command saw this in an instant, and also beckoned the accompanying sergeant to continue on the road. Yan Sidao couldn't help laughing and said: "The Dao Chief's vitality is greatly damaged, the most important thing at the moment is to find a place to rest, and he has already said that he will bother him again in the next matter, why should you bother? With that, he whipped his horse and headed northeast.
Xie Yixiang was bluffed by Yan Sidao, and had no choice but to ask the sergeant for a horse, and the horse caught up with Yan Sidao. At this time, the night was dark, and the two of them rode their horses in the rain, vaguely in the direction of the "Wangfu Stone" that Lin said for a moment. On the way, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but ask: "You keep saying that Xiaodao grows up and hurts his vitality, could it be that he really used some magic to make this plan?" I saw Yan Sidao smile and sighed: "Karma has its own fixed number in the underworld; In the past, Kong Ming crossed Lu, burned the rattan armor and exterminated his clan, and still lost ten years of yang life, this little Taoist priest burned a fire for more than 30 miles, not only burned to death the "kendo small art of war" and "Jiahe ninjutsu" hundreds of elites, but also sacrificed hundreds of innocent people, of course, there is retribution. As for what kind of retribution it is, it depends on how many evil causes he can resolve for himself with his ability in the Guigu lineage, and I have no way of knowing. ”
Xie Yixiang was silent for a long time, and she didn't know if what he said was true or not, and she wanted to ask again, so she thought about it and whipped her horse, and the military horse under her crotch ran faster and faster, and her riding skills were excellent. In this way, it was only half an hour, and the two of them had traveled more than 80 miles, but they listened to the roar of the waves in the night rain, repeatedly beating the firm reef, and it was obvious that they had arrived at the shore of the East China Sea.
At that moment, the two of them walked along the seaside reef, but after a while, they saw that there was a red halo in the night ahead, and there were dozens of burning bonfires, all of which were pulling the tarpaulins with long blades to keep out the rain above, and hundreds of soldiers were resting around the fire, seeing that the armor was all soldiers who had been stationed along the coast all the year round, which was the costume of the rebels under the command of King Heng. On the opposite side of these dozens of bonfires, the firelight outlines a mountain cliff more than ten zhang high on the dark black seaside, and its potential is steep, and it is thought that it is the "Wangfu Stone" where the remnants of the Japanese invaders live.
As the two of them rode closer, only a moment later, a night patrol sergeant stepped forward to interrogate. Xie Yixiang originally thought that this reinforcement army originally stationed in Sanmen County was transferred from Fujian by the Hengwang rebel army, and he knew the identity of the military advisor who "fled from the void and scattered", but after some interrogation, the partial general led by him was actually under the command of Yang Fengbo Yang of Ningyi City. If it weren't for his own face, he would have dragged Yan Sidao off the horse and tied him up on the spot.
Xie Yixiang suddenly realized that he had a son who asked General Sun to lead the remnants of the army and the people to "gnaw bones" to die, but he handed over this new force to his own people to lead, not all because the "young general" was better than General Sun's ability, but because he wanted to take over the more than 1,000 rebels and install court generals in them to command. In this way, it would be best if this rebel army could be completely used for its own use, otherwise it would also be consumed by the Japanese and the Japanese and end up in a situation where both sides were defeated. No matter what the outcome is, it is to harm the enemy and benefit oneself, and the far-reaching strategy can be seen.
However, Yan Sidao didn't care about this, and since he arrived, a pair of eyes have not left the "Wangfu Stone" on the seaside in the overnight rain. When the night patrol was about to be released, he immediately stepped forward, swallowed a pot of freshly loaded dry tobacco, squinted his eyes in the rain and sneered: "Sure enough!" Xie Yixiang on the side was puzzled and asked, and then he said slowly: "Dongying Wokou has always been cunning, and he has not sought victory and thought about defeat first, and this time he invaded the Central Plains, he must prepare a way to retreat early." At present, they abandoned the city and fled here, not in a panic, but by chance, they must have other plans. You can see that the reef is towering, there are no shoals, deep enough for ships to anchor, and the sea is relatively flat, there are no huge waves, but the bottom of the sea is gentle, there are almost no underwater reefs, and it is an excellent natural harbor. If I had predicted that the would-be here, the Japanese had deliberately fled here to wait for an answer from the sea, and it was very likely that it would have been the ship that had taken them back to Dongying. ”