Chapter 1040: Suspend the Crisis
Yang Luochen was a little surprised, and asked: "Oh? Could it be that your distant cousin is an official in Dongcang, or is your distant cousin very rich?
Dian Xiaoer talked about his distant cousin, with a proud face, looked at no one around, and said in a low voice: "Uncle, I think you are a good person, or don't go to find any dragon salvation club, those Jianghu people are not reliable at all, go to Dongcang, find the wind, you can save the fourth highness"
Yang Luochen was stunned for a moment, what kind of character is this wind that can reverse the deadlock, and asked: "Who is this wind and has such a great ability?"
The shopkeeper talked about the wind, hurriedly came to the door, closed the door, and then whispered to Yang Luochen: "This uncle, not many people know about the wind, if it weren't for my distant cousin inside, the little one wouldn't know, if others knew, the little one would be killed."
Yang Luochen became more and more curious, about this wind, took out a silver ingot of ten taels in his arms, put it in the hand of the shopkeeper, and said: "Tell me about this wind, these ten taels are yours."
The shopkeeper looked at the money in his hand, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and quickly returned the money to Yang Luochen, saying: "Uncle, the little one has said enough, although the small one is just the common people, but he will not betray His Royal Highness, you can take the money back."
"If the uncle really wants to save His Royal Highness, go to Dongcang to find the wind by himself, or go to the north to find Marshal Chentian, I heard that Marshal Chentian won the battle in the north, and killed the prince's army of 400,000 with a fire, as long as Marshal Chentian's army comes, it is guaranteed that the army on the second prince's side is scared, and some people from the rivers and lakes have gone to the northern battlefield to find Marshal Chentian."
After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he quickly took the washing water and left, Yang Luochen looked at the silver in his hand, smiled bitterly, and whispered: "When did I kill 400,000, what's the use of looking for me, I'm not helpless when I come now."
Yang Luochen sat at the table in distress, Miao Ting knocked on the door at this time and came in, Yang Luochen hurriedly pulled Miao Ting and asked, "Miao Ting, do you know the wind in Dongcang?"
Miao Ting was stunned for a moment, looked at Yang Luochen strangely, and asked rhetorically: "Young master, you are more familiar with that place in Dongcang than me, and you still ask me? His Royal Highness Fourth issued an edict, and the 150,000 recruited is in Dongcang, and you sent General Xiao Hong to train the troops."
Yang Luochen thought about it for a while, Xiao Hong was also a veteran general, so he was assigned by Yang Luochen to train recruits, as for the location and name of the recruits, they were arranged by Miao Xing and Young Master Haoyang, Yang Luochen didn't ask, and he forgot about it after that.
Yang Luochen hurriedly asked, "How far is Dongcang from Maocheng?"
"Young master, day and night, it will be there in five days, but now I am going to Dongcang, and I am afraid it will take seven days to go back to Maocheng, and when the time comes, the soldiers who came are tired, I am afraid it will be difficult to rescue"
Yang Luochen thought about it, and decided to go to Dongcang to find rescuers, what about the recruits, how about running thousands of miles, as long as there are people, Yang Luochen can solve this dead end.
"Miao Ting, you go back to Maocheng and try your best to get the news in, just say what I mean, let them hold on for seven days, I will definitely arrive, and you must not surrender"
Miao Ting nodded and agreed to leave, Yang Luochen hurriedly stopped and ordered: "Be careful yourself, if you meet a master of Xiongtian, you will run, don't be rash."
Miao Ting and Yang Luochen hugged their fists and saluted and left, Yang Luochen also retreated from the room, gave ten taels of silver to the shopkeeper, and rode fast *** warehouse by himself.
For two days and two nights, Yang Luochen traveled day and night, and a few fast horses were killed, and finally arrived at Dongcang City, but the recruits were not in the city, Yang Luochen found the city lord, and took out the handsome seal, which found Xiao Hong in the mountains thirty miles outside Dongcang City.
After telling Xiao Hong about the situation, Xiao Hong hurriedly rectified 150,000 recruits to listen to Yang Luochen's dispatch, Yang Luochen selected 5,000 elite soldiers and personally led them to Maocheng.
The rest is led by Xiao Hong to Maocheng for reinforcements, how to deploy, how to rescue Yang Luochen has been explained, as long as Xiao Hong arrives on time and acts according to the plan, this dead end will be solved.
With 5,000 elite soldiers, Yang Luochen kept marching towards Maocheng, these 5,000 people were all light horses, with simple equipment, bows and arrows on their backs, a spear in their hands, nothing else, not even food.
Along the way, either eat and sleep in the open air, or eat a big meal in the City Lord's Mansion, almost one meal for a day, and the rest time is also very short, only two hours a day, this is Yang Luochen's calculated time, and it can no longer be compressed.
Galloping all the way, every time he arrived at a city, Yang Luochen had to loot the horses in the city, change the horses and then hurry, this way was a pain for those city lords, and almost turned those cities upside down, fortunately, the young master Haoyangshen was a deep heart, otherwise it would have caused public anger.
Some people knew what Yang Luochen was going to do with these five thousand elite soldiers, so they prepared horses and dry food along the way, and the road behind them became smoother and smoother. Yang Luochen also ordered that no burning, killing, robbing, bullying men and women should be done, and once discovered, they would be dealt with by military law.
These 5,000 recruits did not dare to disobey, and the military discipline was strict along the way, and they did not dare to relax in the slightest, at this point, Yang Luochen was still very grateful to Xiao Hong for his training during this time, otherwise these 5,000 people would become another scourge.
Five days later, Yang Luochen finally came to Maocheng with 5,000 people, but it was hidden in the distance, Maocheng was surrounded by Shao Shiyu's army at this time, and the soldiers on the city wall were pale, their lips were dry, and their eyes were foggy.
Yang Luochen wasn't sure if Miao Ting had been able to pass the news in, but looking at it now, Young Master Haoyang hadn't abandoned the city and surrendered, which was a good thing for Yang Luochen.
"Tell them to go down, have a full meal, and then divide the troops into four ways and sneak attack their rear, if they counterattack, don't stay, and retreat to the east gate quickly"
Five thousand people received Yang Luochen's order, began to take out dry food to eat, and after eating, Yang Luochen reorganized the team, looking at the five thousand immature faces, Yang Luochen said solemnly: "Soldiers, this battle is related to the fate of the gale, the fate of your relatives behind you, victory or defeat is all on you."
"I didn't expect that the first time you went to the battlefield was to follow Ben Shuai, no matter what happened on the battlefield, keep in mind Ben Shuai's military orders, protect yourself and your comrades-in-arms, when the war is over, when Ben Shuai takes a roll call, I don't want to find that anyone is absent, otherwise the military law will deal with it, hear it clearly."
After listening to Yang Luochen's words, the five thousand immature faces showed fortitude, and they shouted in unison: "Hear clearly"
Yang Luochen took the spear and said, "Let's go."
A thousand people followed Yang Luochen and rushed out first, and approached the west gate of Maocheng, and the others divided into three ways and hurriedly divided their heads to avoid harassing the north, south and east gates of Maocheng.
Shao Shiyu's army is besieging the city, and there is no intention of attacking the city, suddenly a pair of men and horses were killed behind the West Gate, and when the sound was heard, the arrow rain had already arrived in front of him, and in an instant, hundreds of people were hit by arrows, and the people and horses who surrounded the West Gate were in chaos.
After the rain of arrows, a team of thousands of men and horses, with spears in hand, rushed directly into the team of the young master Yu, and tore a hole, and the soldiers above the city saw the situation below, and hurriedly reported, and the city wall also launched an attack, stones, and pots and pans were thrown down.
Yang Luochen took the lead in rushing into the crowd to fight, remembering the feeling of fighting on the battlefield before, there were constantly people dying in his hands, and the thousand people behind him saw Yang Luochen so brave, and their original fears were much less, and the fighting became more and more heroic.
After rushing and killing for a while, Yang Luochen took the lead in retreating and galloped towards the north gate, followed by Shao Shiyu's large army. When they arrived at the north gate, they saw Yang Luochen coming, and another team also rushed out and joined Yang Luochen, and the two teams went to the east gate together.
The soldiers who were originally going to besiege the city were all following behind Yang Luochen, and their boss's face was dark, but he couldn't stop it.
When they arrived at the east gate, they joined the team at the east gate, and at this time the team at the south gate also arrived, and the four teams gathered together and fled towards the north, with about 30,000 people following behind them, and about 20,000 at a loss.
At this time, all the four gates of the city were opened, and the large group of men and horses rushed out, and the soldiers who were originally surrounded by the young master Yu panicked, and were scattered and defeated by the soldiers defending the city, and the danger of the city was solved.
Yang Luochen continued to gallop north with 5,000 people, and the large army behind him was too heavy to keep up.
Five thousand people followed Yang Luochen around the hill in front of him, and killed back, Shao Shiyu's army was about to retreat, Yang Luochen led people to kill from the side, and for a time directly rushed the large army away, divided into two sections.
Yang Luochen didn't stay, he took people around in front, shook off the pursuit behind and returned to Maocheng, called open the city gate, it was already a mess inside, what should have been eaten had been eaten, and the people and soldiers were yellow and thin.
When they arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, they saw Young Master Haoyang, Miao Xing, Miao Yue, Yuan Tang and the other seven new Blood Shadow Guards, and Yang Luochen gave them the dry food and water he brought.
Young Master Haoyang asked while eating: "Fortunately, we hold on, otherwise the city will be lost, and the rear will be dangerous."
Yang Luochen asked in surprise: "Didn't Miao Ting send any news?"
Miao Xing, who was eating dry food, was stunned and shook his head, Yang Luochen had a bad premonition in his heart, Miao Ting should have waited outside the city if there was no news, could something have happened? Thinking of this, Yang Luochen asked Miao Yue to go out of the city to look for it.
After that, Yang Luochen let 5,000 people go out of the west gate to the rear to transport grain, and he went to the city tower of the east gate alone, and looked at the situation, and the army of Shao Shiyu did retreat.
Calculate the time, Xiao Hong still has more than ten days to arrive, Yang Luochen is ready to stick to it again, no matter who the coach is, he will not let go of such a good opportunity, if he doesn't succeed once, he will come again, and the team in the city has no time to scruple about this.
After five days, the enemy army attacked again, but fortunately, the 5,000 soldiers who had gone to carry the grain arrived on the night of the fourth day, and the large amount of grain brought in was enough for the people of the city to eat for several days.
Yang Luochen would not sit still, and while the formation they had formed had not yet risen, the 20,000 soldiers in the city began to counterattack to prevent them from surrounding.
In addition, the 5,000 people who were transferred, divided into 10 teams, harassed everywhere outside the city, and changed places, so that the 50,000 people of the young master were frightened and always on guard.
Yang Luochen also had no choice, if he had enough troops, he would not do such a bluff, and in addition, this kind of harassment was to prepare for Xiao Hong's army.
In the next few days, the 50,000 young master's army ignored the harassment of the 5,000 people and completely ignored them, which was what Yang Luochen wanted to see.
Yang Luochen just gave an order to keep it, and there was no follow-up, seeing that the food brought was decreasing day by day, the young master Haoyang was very anxious in his heart, but Miao Xing was very calm, I don't know why since the moment he saw Yang Luochen arrive in Maocheng, Miao Xing no longer had the slightest worry in his heart.
Yang Luochen is either watching from the tower of Xicheng every day or appeasing the people with the young master Haoyang in the city, all he eats in the past few days is gruel, and the food he brings back is indeed too little, so he can only barely make ends meet.
On this day, Yang Luochen came to the top of the Xicheng Tower early in the morning, and the young masters Haoyang, Miao Xing and Yuan Tang were all there, following Yang Luochen to keep staring at the west.
The army of the young master Yu under the city was camped three miles outside the city, and there were many soldiers patrolling at the gate of the camp, and the whole city was besieged to death. Young Master Haoyang sighed and said, "Alas, Brother Yang, then we should retreat, and we don't have to continue to suffer here now."
Miao Xing said slowly: "Your Highness, we are only five thousand people, and he will not let us continue to guard."