Chapter 19: No One in Sight
"Battle report! battle report! battle report from the front!" the scout, dressed in cloth armor stained with blood, rode towards the city of Luye, and shouted loudly when he reached the gate of the city, and before the gate could be opened, the man fell off his horse as if he was weak.
Standing on the city wall was Huang Zhensha, the hussar general who guarded Luye City, and when he saw this, he hurriedly asked someone to open the door and bring the scout in, and he immediately ran down. As soon as Huang Zhensha ran down the city wall, he saw the scout spy who was only able to stand up half-up by two soldiers, and at this time the man had a penetrating arrow stuck in his right thigh.
The scout struggled to open his blood-stained and scabbed eyes, and when he heard the two people supporting him shout General Huang, he actually laughed and said weakly: "I just said that I can do it, then the melon baby will lose to me again." As he spoke, he trembled and pointed to a bamboo tube hanging from his waist.
Hearing this, the deputy general beside Huang Zhensha leaned forward and took down the scout's bamboo tube, opened it and handed a letter inside to Huang Zhensha. Huang Zhensha opened it to look at the contents of the letter, crumpled the letter into a ball and squeezed it in his hand, and said: "You are the soldier who knows the awakening of the building? The scholar surnamed Lou, I have always disliked him, but today you let me see that he is a little good, how old are you? What is your name?" ”
The scout may have heard the character and tone of the general in front of him, so he didn't say much, but said: "Our group of people call me Wotou, I'm seventeen this year, cough cough!" As soon as he finished speaking, the scout called Wotou coughed up two mouthfuls of blood. Seeing this, Huang Zhensha didn't ask anything more, and motioned to Liu Ming, the deputy general next to him, to take the head of the nest down for treatment, and he turned around and walked towards the battle chamber.
"General Liu, this is too busy in his own military camp, why do you still send someone else's family here? And the injury is so serious, even if it can be saved, I am afraid it will be useless. A man who looked like a military doctor complained to Liu Ming, while looking at the nest head who had just been carried in and was still unconscious. Liu Ming didn't care, put his arm on the doctor's shoulder, leaned into his ear and said: "It's troublesome, you don't have to treat it, and when he can't do it himself, he will leave it aside, and you still have to ask me about such a simple matter?"
In the meeting hall of Luye City, Huang Zhensha saw that everyone had arrived, and said indifferently: "The person surnamed Lou in front of him is about to be unable to bear it, what he said in his letter is that the grain, grass and soldiers he wants have not been allocated by the imperial court, and he has been doing it for more than half a month in the place where the bird can smash a piece of ash on the city wall." Soon, Huangyang's soldiers and horses are about to arrive in our Luye, and this is also a signal for him to prepare us for it. Huang Zhensha said, slapped the letter that had just been crumpled by him on the table, and continued: "I don't have anything to say, just go down, tidy up my subordinates, distribute weapons and armor, repair the city defenses, make all the preparations, and do a big job." ”
"The last general commands!" After Huang Zhensha finished speaking, all the soldiers in the hall were ordered to retreat, but a young man with a longbow remained inside. Looking at Huang Zhensha, who was thinking with his head in his hands, the young man with the longbow on his back asked in a low voice, "Since my father already knows that the Huangyang army is coming, he can prepare in advance, why does he still look sullen." ”
Huang Zhensha was interrupted by his question, looked up at his youngest son Huang Wumu in front of him, and said softly: "My son is also seventeen this year, right?" Huang Wumu was stunned for a moment, and nodded yes. Huang Zhensha changed his tone again, and said: "Do you know, Lou Zhixing is a literati general, although I have always said that I don't like it, I always feel that he has no ability, and he can only dance and ink." But this is such a person, and I am sincerely convinced, he can defend Pengcheng without retreating, and scold the sky with one person and one article, what kind of courage is this? Haha, this literati is a man with many eyes, and he also wants to ridicule us for sticking to the last line of defense in this Xiangliang Kyoto. But he still underestimated me Huang Zhensha, even if he didn't have his radical method, even if he knew that it would only be a useless move in the end, but I, Huang Zhensha, also wanted to scold this dog's Xiangliang court, scold this blind God, and scold that Huangyang's 600,000 iron horsemen! So, can my son dare to fight side by side with his father!?"
After hearing this, Huang Wumu immediately knelt on the ground to receive the order, and responded: "Dare!"
Luye was finally under the city of 600,000 iron cavalry of Huangyang, and Luye City, which had less than 50,000 soldiers and horses, was panicked for a while. Although the previous battles and siege methods were prepared in advance to defend the city, this huge disparity in strength still made the people in the city and some soldiers have the idea of fleeing or surrendering.
Somehow, the Huangyang army did not attack desperately, but just camped on the spot, as if it was consuming the last bit of strength of its checkmate. Finally, after 20 days of stalemate, the people's grievances and the emotions of some soldiers were boiling, and Huang Zhensha knew that if there was no hope and movement to bring them in this situation, the people and soldiers who were depressed would not be able to bear it. At this time, the Huangyang army also said that if the city was not opened and surrendered, the day the city would be broken three days later would be the time to slaughter the city.
"Father, I have no eyes to sneak into the three armies, take the head of the Huangyang general, there is no moon today, and in the middle of the night, I will secretly go down from the north gate with a sword and a bow and arrows. If we succeed, we can naturally postpone the siege plan of the Huangyang army, so that we can have more time and can also appease the emotions of the people and soldiers in the city a little. Huang Wumu and Huang Zhensha pleaded, although the generals on one side were communicating with each other, no one stopped Huang Wumu's proposal, after all, in the current situation, this is no longer a way.
At this time, Liu Ming, who was next to him, saw this, thought for a while, took two steps forward and said: "Although it is really not appropriate to let Gongzi put himself in danger, but we all know that General Xiao Huang's bow and arrow are superb, and I think there is no second person in this Luye City who is more powerful than General Xiao Huang." It's better to send a quick adjutant to accompany the little general to do this, in case there is any situation and there can be a response, I don't know what the general wants. ”
Huang Zhensha, who was still thinking about it, heard Liu Ming say this, and then saw everyone's nodding in agreement, so he responded. After everyone finished discussing other matters and left, Huang Zhensha left Huang Wumu and said, "Do you know that I am not worried about the risk consequences of your actions, but I am afraid that if the Lord of Huang Yang is really killed by you, they will accelerate the possibility of attacking the city in anger." Although the tiger poison does not eat children, but the battlefield is ruthless, and if someone else's son can die, my son, he must also be able to! Since this decision is your own decision, and it seems to be the most likely and effective method at the moment, then you can go tonight. Huang Wumu listened to Huang Zhensha's words, but he didn't answer with his hands, and bowed down.
At night, Huang Wumu took a knife soldier arranged for him by Liu Ming and quietly descended from the north gate of Naluye and infiltrated the Huangyang army. Huang Yang's generals, who had been camping all the time, did not make any moves, and the garrison at night was sparse and ordinary, and from time to time Huang Wumu and the others sneaked to the side of the tent concentration camp of the generals in the army. At this time, he saw that there were three figures talking in one of the largest yellow cloth tents, and Huang Wumu heard the content of their conversation, as if they were reporting military affairs or something. So Huang Wumu turned his head and said to the person who was following him: "Among the three figures inside, the one sitting in the front should be the main general of Huang Yang, and after I shoot him with an arrow, you will set the haystack over there on fire, and we will take advantage of the chaos to withdraw." ”
The man answered and took out the fire breaker. Huang Wumu didn't say much, turned around and set up an arrow, the longbow was full, and with a soft groan that seemed to break the wind, an arrow flew through the yellow cloth tent, but in an instant, the torches around him lit up, and the Huangyang sword and axe soldiers immediately surrounded the two of them. Huang Wumu just blurted out: "There is an ambush, a plan." I saw that the sword soldier who followed him waved his hand, and scattered a handful of black ash towards Huang Wumu's eyes.
How could Huang Wumu have thought that the person around him was the biggest ambush, and it was too late to block it casually, but he just got up and kicked the person away, and his eyes also stinged, he couldn't open it and couldn't see, leaving two lines of blood and tears.
At this time, from among the surrounding soldiers, a man in a general uniform slowly walked out, and he said as he walked: "What a Huang Wumu who has no one in his eyes, he wants to take my life in the three armies of Huangyang, if he didn't receive the news in advance, how to deal with you, it would be really troublesome for you." ”
Huang Wumu understood everything in the current situation, and said indifferently: "Liu Ming is your person? So you can know that I have good eyes and ears, so that these soldiers in ambush do not move at all, and even hold their breath." As for the person who was planted next to me, it would be more certain to destroy my eyes with medicinal powder than to attack my life. Hmph, that's a good idea. ”
The general didn't argue, and continued to laugh softly: "It's light, these strong generals can make it easy for me to find them." Yo, the torch has been lit at the head of Luye City, it seems that Liu Ming has also succeeded over there, okay, let's send your father and son to reunite. ”
When Huang Wumu heard this, his body trembled, and he shouted: "What do you mean? What torch, what did Liu Ming's villain do to my father?" The general did not answer him when he heard this, waved his hand, and a group of soldiers surrounded and killed.
After several years, the family of Liu Ming, the governor of Luzhou, who was already in the new dynasty of Huangyang, was brutally wiped out overnight, and even the child who had just completed the moon was not spared, and even Liu Ming was set at the head of the Luye city with an arrow.
"Little sister, is this blind third brother so ruthless?" Chen Azheng looked at Liu Ming's corpse nailed on the city wall, and asked Liu Zhuqing beside him softly. "I repeat! The third brother is not blind, he just can't see the bright light, so he will cover his eyes with black ribbons. Besides, people listen to the arguments, and the ability to smell and suck is much better than yours, don't think that you are old, the eldest brother will let you rank second, be careful that I poison you!" Liu Zhuqing jumped to his feet and said, Chen Azheng smiled disappreciably, pressed her head with the book in his hand, looked at the man in front of them who was walking towards them, and said.
"Back to Shuzhong. ”