Chapter 519: Preparation
Qi Chu and the three of them were chatting in the tent, when Lord Chen suddenly broke in. Seeing Lord Chen's panicked appearance, Qi Chu asked, "What's going on?"
"The messenger has come to the front line, I'm afraid your identity can't be saved!" Lord Chen got straight to the point, and now time is life.
Qi Chu knew that he was in trouble, but this was nothing compared to the previous trouble.
"What's the panic, isn't it unrevealed?"
Seeing that he was not in a hurry, Lord Chen was a little annoyed: "Sooner or later, paper can't hold the fire." ”
Qi Chu said with a smile: "You are a dignified naval commander, and you can't panic when you encounter some trivial things." ”
Lord Chen did something wrong with good intentions, and said angrily: "You are a dog biting Lu Dongbin and you don't know the hearts of good people!"
Qi Chu smiled: "It should be said that the emperor is not in a hurry, and the eunuch is in a hurry." ”
Lan Ting next to him smiled: "Declare in advance, I'm not in a hurry." ”
"Okay, okay, you are all people who have gone through the wind and waves, and I am the only one who has never seen the world. ”
Qi Chu said: "Trouble is coming, you can't hide, you can tell me what is going on first?"
Chen Dadao: "At the beginning of the year, the Japanese invaded North Korea again, do you know this?"
"Of course I know, we sent reinforcements, and we lost a few battles at the beginning, didn't we hear about stabilizing the situation later?" Although Qi Chu is a native of the rivers and lakes, he is a Han and always pays attention to the battle situation.
Chen Dadao: "The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and this time something should have happened." ”
Qi Chu stood up, "Then why don't you hurry up and see the messenger, you still have time to come to me." He was very grateful to Master Chen for giving him a tip-off. But the frontline is certainly more important.
Master Chen glared at him and said, "I didn't want to care if you lived or died, but I can't watch you die." ”
Qi Chu smiled: "You, you just underestimate me too much." What can a mere messenger do to me?"
"I can't do anything to you, but once your identity is revealed, it will affect the whole army. Master Chen said worriedly.
"Don't worry, with me, I won't let anything happen to the soldiers. Now go and meet the messenger first, and then come back to report the battle ahead, and go quickly. "As Qi Chu said, pretending to be an emperor is a big deal for Lord Chen, but for him, it's not worth mentioning.
"I said that you really think of yourself as an emperor, and you still let me come back to report it?" Master Chen smiled bitterly
"I don't mind going with you to see if the messenger recognizes me as emperor. Qi Chu said with a smile
"Come on, I'd better go by myself, you stay here and don't wander around!"
Lord Chen hurriedly went back again, and not only did he not get Qi Chu's thanks, but he was also counted down. However, Qi Chu's words made him relax as well, it seems that Qi Chu should be prepared.
When he returned to his tent, he saw that the beard was looking around.
"Your Excellency, you are back! Where have you been?" said the beard in three steps and two steps.
"I went to the latrine. Master Chen replied, and said that his reason was not very good.
As a result, the beard thought to himself, could it be that the adults felt that the war on the front line was not good, and they were scared to pee?
"Take me to the messenger quickly. Master Chen urged.
The two did not talk along the way, until they came to the outside of the tent where the messenger was. Master Chen heard someone inside shouting: "Why don't you let me out! Is this to put me under house arrest?"
Lord Chen opened the curtain and went in, and when he saw the messenger, he hurriedly smiled and said, "I'm really sorry, I went out on patrol just now." My subordinates are ignorant and neglect the messenger, and I hope you will forgive me. ”
The messenger was already mad, but he couldn't get angry with his heavy responsibility, so he took out the letter and threw it to Lord Chen, "See for yourself!"
Master Chen opened the letter in his hand, and after a long time, he raised his head and said in surprise: "The front line is in an emergency?"
The messenger nodded and sighed, "Hey, no one could have imagined!"
"How is this possible? Didn't you take Gucheng first and then Qingshan in October? How could you lose the battle?" Master Chen wondered.
The messenger hung his head and said, "I also wanted to bring good news, but I did lose the battle." "At the moment, I told the situation on the front line.
The atmosphere became extremely heavy, and this sudden news cast a haze over Lord Chen's heart.
The messenger said: "I have come to ask for your help. ”
Lord Chen reacted, "Do you want us to reinforce North Korea?" and then thought that there were not many naval troops in the city, and if they were all brought to the front line, they would probably not be able to come back.
"Yes, the Japanese have an army of 200,000 men, and although our army has recaptured many cities before, once they counterattack, it will be unimaginably fast. ”
Lord Chen was embarrassed: "But when you came, you also saw that Penglai Water City has been destroyed, and there is only one ship that can go to sea now, how can we help?"
When the messenger arrived at Penglai Water City, he found that the city walls had collapsed and the city was empty, and he searched for a long time before he found the camp. "What happened? Even if the Japanese invaded, the entire city of water would not be destroyed. ”
"Tsunami, didn't you encounter it when you came from the sea?" asked Master Chen
"The war on the front line is urgent, and the sea is mostly full of Japanese ships, and I take the land route. The messenger said
In the end, Lord Chen asked the messenger to rest first, and he had to discuss it with his subordinates. In fact, he wanted to discuss with Qi Chu. From the letter, I learned that the battle on the front line was urgent, the enemy had 200,000 troops, and our army was less than half of the enemy's army, and the battle was lost.
returned to Qi Chu's tent and told the situation.
"How did you lose the battle?" Qi Chu asked at the key point.
Master Chen said: "In the past, our army was victorious one after another, but the letter said that a few days ago, a group of invulnerable soldiers appeared in the Japanese army, and they could defeat one enemy with one hundred. Our army and these invulnerable soldiers can only wait for death. ”
"Invulnerable warriors?" Qi Chu thought, and he had an eyebrow in his heart. "How many such invulnerable fighters are there?"
"The letter said that there were about 100 people, although there were few people. But you also know that the battle between the two armies is a momentum, these more than 100 people concentrated on one point to attack our army, they can't be stopped at all, they are like a copper wall in front of the iron wall, there are enemy troops behind them, once this momentum falls, it will be defeated. ”
Seeing that Qi Chu didn't speak, Lord Chen asked again, "What are you thinking?"
Qi Chu said: "I'm thinking that Yangzhou can't go back." ”
"What do you mean? Your fake identity hasn't been revealed, don't worry. ”
Qi Chu shook his head and said, "That's not what I'm talking about, since the soldiers mentioned in the letter are so powerful, even if you have tens of thousands of reinforcements, it won't work." ”
"You want to go to the front line with me?" Lord Chen's eyes widened, of course he knew Qi Chu's ability, if he could get his help, maybe there was a possibility of turning defeat into victory.