Chapter 408: Deciding to Expedition

After the sky was bright, Ugong Terulie finally walked out of his dormitory with exhaustion, and when he saw Unomiya Ren standing anxiously outside the dormitory, Unomiya Teruyeol's heart sank, and he walked quickly to Unomiya Ren and asked, "Zixiao, what happened?"

Unomiya Ren sighed and told Unomiya Terulie the truth about what happened last night. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Unomiya Terulie was furious after hearing this, and seventeen people were killed, including Guo Jia and Xi Zhicai, whom he relied on the most! Xi Zhicai was pierced through the throat at close range, he must have died and could not die again, and although Guo Jia did not find the body, his whereabouts are still unknown, perhaps he was brutally killed by the assassin by some unknown means, and Xun You and Cheng Yu were also assassinated.

With a full of anger, Ugong Terulie yelled at Unomiya Ren, "Why didn't you come early to report?!"

Yu Gongren lowered his head a little aggrieved, and replied in a muttered voice: "I came early, and the two generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou said that the king was in ...... While resting, a certain did not disturb the king. Hearing Ugong Ren's answer, Ugong Zhaolie patted his head in annoyance, "Ugong Ren! You lead five thousand troops, block the city gate, and search and suppress the city, you must catch this group of hateful assassins, and after verifying their identities, kill them on the spot, and don't have to leave a living mouth!" Ugong Terulie ordered Ugong Ren with a gloomy face.

Ugong Ren was stunned, and then understood the meaning of Ugong Terulie, and killed him on the spot without leaving a living mouth, which means that if you can't find a real assassin, then kill some irrelevant people to act as assassins, in order to calm people's hearts, in short, the "assassin" must be caught, and the Great Wei State can't afford to lose this face.

Throughout the day, Ugong Terulie did nothing else, and successively went to visit the families of the seventeen ministers who were assassinated and died, while saying kind words to soothe them, while rewarding them with heavy money, and the eldest sons of these seventeen ministers, all of them were named non-hereditary liehous, in recognition of their fathers' sacrifice for the country, and at the same time, Ugong Terulie did this, but also to show others, so that everyone knew that in the Great Wei, the martyrs will not die in vain, and Ugong Terulie will take care of the martyrs' heirs and families.

In the evening, Ugong Ren returned, he came back with nearly a hundred heads, among them, there were real members of the hidden dragon who stayed to delay time for Li Ru, but more of them, they were innocent people, and they didn't understand until they died, why Ugong Ren raised a butcher knife against them.

Umiya Terulie placed these nearly 100 heads in front of the mourning hall of the seventeen ministers, and uniformly paid tribute to them, finally eliminating the negative impact of this assassination incident invisibly. But this is only a superficial elimination, these seventeen people are all important ministers of Ugong Wei, each of them has a part of Ugong Wei's administrative power in their hands, and now that they are dead, it directly leads to Ugong Zhaolie's orders being unconveyed, and Ugong Wei's administration is in chaos, and if you want to make up for these losses, it will take a while to make up for these losses, just like when Yuan Qi, Zhang Wu, Just as Zhao Hu and the three of them worked together to kill more than 70 generals in the Ugong Battalion, the collective loss of the middle force will take time to recover, and this time, without a year's work, will definitely not be able to do.

With annoyance and anger, Unomiya Terumu dragged his body back to the dormitory after a busy day. The next morning, Unomiya Terulie announced the cancellation of the court meeting and changed it to a noon meeting. Unomiya Terulie's agreement made a group of henchmen and martial artists show a bit of worry on their faces. When the dynasty was dispersed, more than a dozen generals such as Ugong Ren and seven or eight civil servants such as Xun Yu and Cheng Yu stayed, secretly discussing how to free Ugong Terulie from his vacillation.

Unomiya Terulie is a hero, but it can also be said that he is a hero, no matter what his true thoughts are in his heart, but he at least dares to admit his mistakes and make his mistakes public, in exchange for everyone's understanding, Unomiya Terulie did this, so that the resentment among the 300,000 soldiers who are about to go out of the war instantly disappeared invisibly, but reunited, and morale was unprecedentedly high.

After the pre-war mobilization, Ugong Terulie did not delay for a moment, at noon that day, he issued an order to go out, except for Xun You was left in Xuchang to rebuild the civilian system, the rest of the henchmen and important ministers all went out with the army, and there was a great momentum to defeat Jizhou in one fell swoop. It is worth mentioning that by the side of Ugong Zhaolie, a new face appeared, saying that it was a new face, in fact, many people under Ugong Zhaolie knew him and admired his talent very much, he was Sima Yi, the chief disciple of Hu Zhao under Yuan Qi.

Prior to this, Ugong Zhaolie was wary of him because of Sima Yi's eagle posture of wolf anticipation, and refused to reuse him, for fear that he would one day usurp the country he had worked so hard to fight, but now, after the assassination of the members of the hidden dragon, there was an embarrassing situation that no one was available around Ugong Zhaolie, and as a last resort, Ugong Zhaolie enabled Sima Yi, and let him and Cheng Yu join the army as the combat of this expedition, and follow his side to give advice, and it was this decision of Ugong Zhaolie that made Sima Yi officially enter the stage of history from then on, began to emerge, and later in a series of battles with Yuan Qi, which caused a lot of trouble for Yuanqi.

Li Ru did not return to Yanjing with Tian Feng, but stayed in Yecheng, Tian Feng has his duties, he must return to Yanjing to be responsible for daily affairs, but Li Ru has Li Ru's duties, he has to monitor every move of the Ugong army, and provide accurate information for the soldiers of the army guarding Jizhou, because Li Ru knows very well that under the blow to the civilian system, it may be possible to delay Ugong Terulie for a while, but it is absolutely impossible to let Ugong Terulie collapse from now on, and Umiya Terulie will definitely regain his strength in the short term, otherwise, he is not worthy of Ugong Terulie, and he is not worthy of being a fierce rival of Yuan Qi's life。

Li Ru's prediction was not wrong, a few days after he arrived in Yecheng, the members of the Qianlong sent the news, Ugong Zhaolie killed Himiko, personally led an army of 300,000, and embarked on a journey to Jizhou, at the same time, Yuan Ye, who was guarding Wei County, was also ready, and the whole county was fully loaded, waiting for the convergence with the army of Yugong Zhaolie, and then needless to say, it must be and attack the two counties of Julu or Qinghe near Wei County, and strive to open up a battlefield in Jizhou Take advantage of the opportunity of Yuan Qi to fight in Yizhou, and seize the entire Jizhou.

After receiving this news, Li Ru did not dare to slack off, and immediately told Xu Block, Zhang Zong and Xu Shu, who were guarding in Jizhou, and the three of them had already found out the news, but they did not have the detailed information that Li Ru had gotten, and immediately began to arrange defenses, and finally decided that Zhang Zong would guard Yecheng, Xu Block and Xu Shu and Li Ru led the main force of Jizhou 150,000 troops, and rushed to Julu, In the area of Qinghe, he camped on the road to block the advance of the Yugong army, and at the same time sent a messenger to quickly inform Yanjing and the closest state to Jizhou, asking a group of colleagues who stayed in Yanjing to quickly send reinforcements, and hoped that Guo Huai, the governor of the state, would lead his troops to help.

A few days later, Xu Ban arrived at the junction of Julu and Qinghe one step ahead of Ugong Zhaolie, and set up three large camps on the three main roads leading to the hinterland of Jizhou, Xu Ban personally led an army of 50,000 troops to be stationed in the middle of the large camp, and Li Ru also stayed here to plan a perfect plan. Xu Shu and Shi Jia led 50,000 troops to be stationed in the large camps on the left and right sides respectively, and the three large camps were within a range of twenty miles, echoing each other from afar, like three roadblocks, blocking all the main passages to the interior of Jizhou.

Only two days after Xu Block and others set up camp, Ugong Zhaolie's vanguard general Xiahoudun led 70,000 vanguard troops to arrive, originally Ugong Zhaolie wanted Xiahoudun to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and reach Julu, but he didn't expect the members of the hidden dragon to once again play in addition to the intelligence advantage, so that the Yan army made preparations early. It was hard to come here two days earlier than Xiahoudun's vanguard army and set up the defensive line.

Seeing the enemy's deployment, Xiahoudun is also a battle-hardened general, and understands that the enemy army is afraid that he has been prepared for a long time, if he rashly launches an attack, maybe the enemy army will occupy the advantage of waiting for work, but he will fight himself in a hurry, therefore, Xiahoudun did not give the order to attack at the first time. Instead, he let his 70,000 vanguard troops and Xu Fang's battalion be ten miles apart, set up camp, and sent light cavalry to patrol the four sentinels, looking for the flaws of the enemy.

I came with Xiahoudun. There are also two generals who have recently joined Unomiya Teruje, Li Jin and Yue Xi, who have not been able to make any meritorious contributions since they joined the service, because there is no war. On the contrary, they were treated favorably by Unomiya Terulie, and both of them had some meritorious service in their hearts, and they were eager to fight a big battle. to prove that the two of them are worthy of the reward of Unomiya Terulie. After seeing the tight defense of the Yan army, the two came to Xiahoudun's Chinese army tent to ask for battle, and asked Xiahoudun for permission to lead their troops to launch a strong attack.

For the martial arts of these two people, Xiahoudun is very admired, but as the commander, Xiahoudun naturally will not easily agree to their request, a few words of persuasion, temporarily dispelled their idea of leading the army to launch a strong attack, everything, still need to find out the reality of the enemy.

In the evening of the same day, the scouts sent by Xiahoudun returned to the camp and gave a general description of the enemy's disposition, because the enemy's defense was too tight, and they could not obtain more detailed information, so the information they heard was only an approximation. But for Xiahoudun, this was enough. In Xiahoudun's view, Xu Fang, Zhang Zong and Xu Shu, this is a solid iron triangle, it is undoubtedly difficult to break the defense of this iron triangle, but, for the sake of safety, Zhang Zong actually stayed in Yecheng and did not come, instead of Zhang Zong to guard on the left side, it is the deputy general Shi Jia, Shi Jiaqi people, who were originally Yuan Ying's old subordinates, and the ability to lead troops to fight is not bad, but compared to Zhang Zong, it is a world away, which forms the weakest link in the iron triangle, compared with the other two people, whether it is in tactical literacy or on-the-spot command, there is a huge gap, so Xiahoudun decided to take the left side of Shi Jia's town as a breakthrough, in one fell swoop, crushed the iron triangle that stood in front of the army.

At nightfall, Xiahoudun led the main army to quietly touch the vicinity of Xu Bao's camp, and asked Li Jin and Yue Xi to lead an army of 20,000 people to the direction of Shi Jia's camp, preparing to attack the camp at the same time. In Xiahoudun's view, Xu Feng must not have imagined that he would launch a night attack regardless of fatigue after a day's journey, even if Xu Feng was prepared, it didn't matter, the main force on Xiahoudun's side was just a feint, his real intention was to use the courage and fighting spirit of Li Jin and Yue Xi to defeat Shi Jia on the left and open up a way for the army to advance.

Tens of thousands of Yugong soldiers wrapped their hooves and quietly came to the predetermined strategic position, Xiahoudun raised his head and glanced at the camp of Xu Xuan, and saw four teams of patrols shuttling back and forth in the camp, vigilantly scanning the surroundings, a group of orderly appearance. Lying down, Xiahoudun thought secretly for a while, and whispered to the soldiers around him: "Order the troops, rest in place, don't make any noise, and when the guards of the Yan army are tired, we will launch an attack, send people to inform Li Jin and Yue Xi, the two generals, wait for the general's orders, and must not act rashly." ”

In the early hours of the morning, when people were most sleepy, Xiahoudun waited quietly outside the Xu Block camp for more than an hour, and finally ushered in the best time to launch a night attack. In the Yan military camp, the four teams of patrol posts that were originally in high spirits have also yawned for days, and the shuttle patrols back and forth are not as diligent as just now, so they have found a sheltered place and sat on the ground to rest.

With a sneer on the corner of his mouth, Xiahoudun raised his right hand and slashed towards the camp of the Yan army! The tens of thousands of Yugong troops who followed behind Xiahoudun immediately rushed to the enemy's camp like a dark tide, and instantly broke through the fence of the enemy's camp, shouting and slaughtering into the enemy's camp. The four patrol teams that frightened the enemy immediately jumped up from the ground, shouted the enemy attack, and fled into the depths of the camp.

Xiahoudun was not interested in chasing those shrimp soldiers and crab generals, he took his personal guards and went straight to the Chinese army tent in Xu Fang, preparing to take advantage of his unpreparedness and capture them in one fell swoop. When he came to the big tent of the Chinese army, Xiahoudun slashed at Xu Fang's bed, but he immediately felt that something was wrong, because he felt that where his blade reached, there was no sense of cutting off his body into the flesh. Xiahoudun hurriedly lifted the quilt to take a look, and found that the bed was not Xu Feng at all, but a straw man, and was shocked, Xiahoudun knew that he had been tricked, and hurriedly retreated outside the big tent, and shouted at the same time: "The whole army assembles and assaults outside the camp, the enemy army has an ambush!"

The Unomiya army, which had already scattered and rushed separately. Hearing Xiahou Xuan's shouting, he couldn't help but be stunned, and before they could react, a burst of passionate war drums suddenly came from the camp of the Yan army, and countless Yan soldiers appeared from their hiding places, holding fire arrows that had been ignited in their hands, and shot at the Yugong army in the camp. The Unomiya army came from the camp, so naturally there would not be too much heavy protective gear, only some of them carried a round shield with them. Under the accumulation of arrows, there were casualties immediately, many Unomiya soldiers were shot by fire arrows, wailing and fell to the ground, some Unomiya soldiers who were not shot to the point, but the armor on their bodies was ignited by the flames, and they struggled under the burning of the flames in pain, but the sound of struggle was getting weaker and weaker, but they had to die immediately, it was very miserable, and it was unbearable to look at directly.

In the firelight, Xu blocked the armor of Mingguang, holding the Tiangang axe, and rushed out of the horse, and the thirty-six Tiangang axe was used with all his might, like chopping melons and vegetables, swept towards Xiahoudun's subordinate soldiers, after Xu blocked, the 20,000 Yan army formed a battle formation, waved the war knife, and ruthlessly slashed at the Yugong army in front of him, and the impact of the Yugong army was cut into dozens of squares, and it was no longer possible to form a unified front.

At the same time, in the left camp guarded by Shi Jia, the same scene was also staged, Shi Jia held a big knife, rode on a war horse, shuttled between the battlefields, and commanded his subordinates to form an encirclement and suppression of the Yugong army.

Maybe it was fate, Li Jin was born to fight the same as Qi Tian, so his weapon is also a halberd, but it is not Qi Tian's usual Qi Tian halberd, but a double-edged halberd, this halberd is called Tanyun, there are two crescent blades on the halberd blade, and his halberd method is also quite a bit of the spirit of breaking the clouds and exploring the moon, which is very wonderful.

Therefore, under Li Jin's Cloud Exploration Halberd, Shi Jia barely supported three moves, and he could no longer block the attack of Li Jin's halberd blade, after all, Shi Jia's martial arts could barely be regarded as a second-rate level, and he was definitely not Li Jin's opponent. Li Jin shook his might, roared angrily, and slashed the Tanyun Halberd to the top of Shi Jia's head, Shi Jia's arms had already been shocked to the point that he couldn't use the slightest strength, and in the face of Li Jin's slash, he had no power to cover up, and watched the Tanyun Halberd cut himself into two pieces.

After killing Shi Jia, Li Jin raised his halberd and shouted: "The enemy's main general is dead, soldiers, kill!" Yue Xi waved a three-pointed two-edged knife, commanded the troops to join Li Jin, and carried out a Jedi counterattack against the Yan army that had lost its unified command, in this battle, Li Jin and Yue Xi relied on their own martial arts and bravery, and defeated the 50,000 Yan troops stationed in the camp with 20,000 people, opened the road to the left flank, and laid a solid foundation for the army led by Ugong Zhaolie to advance into the hinterland of Jizhou.

At dawn, the battle in Xu Xuan's camp had also ended, and after paying the price of nearly the lives of the Wanyu Palace army, Xiahoudun successfully broke out of the encirclement, came to the left flank and Li Jin and Yue Xi to converge, and then immediately arranged the defense line, guarding the road to the hinterland of Jizhou, and Xu blocked after learning that Shi Jia was killed by Li Jin. After the news that the left side had been lost, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed, people are not as good as the sky, although he killed nearly ten thousand Yugong troops, but he lost the barrier of the left flank, this battle, strictly speaking, is considered a loss for the Yan army.