Chapter 45: Victory and Decline (I)

In the darkness that covered the sky, eight thousand soldiers poured in from all sides.

The green flag waved in the wind, and Wen Short rode on horseback, looking out towards the battlefield.

The sound of drums and trumpets sounded from all directions.

Dozens of clusters of fire suddenly lit up under the dark curtain, and behind the infantry, dozens of flaming chariots were pushed upside down by the soldiers and rushed towards the crowd.

The wheels slid across the ground with a piercing screech.

More than 8,000 soldiers arrived suddenly, and the combat power of the soldiers was far better than that of the slaves.

After a moment of engagement, the slaves were first in chaos, then in a rout, and finally in a rout.

The slaves screamed and fled like headless flies.

But in the end, most of the slaves were forced by the burning chariot to flee to the wooden village.

A large number of slaves rushed into the wooden village, and Liyue took more than 200 cavalry and the remaining foot guards to guard the drawbridge.

The rushing infantry lit the ladder to the wall.

Ligu took more than 400 foot soldiers and guarded the waterway.

It didn't take long for the darkness to dominate the sky, and the people who were surrounded by the wooden village changed from the county guards of Dingbian County to panicked slaves.

The brown horse, with its slender hooves, walked slowly forward with Wen Short.

The cloth of the purple cloak covers most of the horse's torso, showing off the borough muscles of the horse's muscular body.

The patterns of golden sunflowers are mottled on the cloak, and the vivid colors shine brightly in the firelight.

At both ends of the gilded armor, the abrupt water chestnut horns are as sharp as a blade.

On his face covered with fog and frost, Wen Short's expression was calm and indifferent.

Squinting his eyes, his gaze swept over Liyue and Ligu, who were kneeling on the road, Wen Short bowed slightly, pulled the reins hard, and rode past the two of them.

The horse stopped in front of the drawbridge, and Wen Short turned over and dismounted.

On the narrow drawbridge, two hundred and thirty cavalrymen stood in formation, and after the cavalry, the archers tightened their bowstrings, and rows of arrows aimed at the hollow gate.

With a worried face, Ligu followed Liyue, who was covered in blood, walked to Wen Short's side, bowed slightly, and said, "General." ”

"Ligu, you bring a sword and a shield to replace the cavalry, and Liyue, you take the brothers down to rest first. ”

Hearing this, Ligu took the lead in holding his fists and said: "Obey!"

Turning his head to look at his brother, Li Yue smiled with emotion, also clenched his fists, and said softly: "Obey." ”

At this time, Yougen and Liu Heng finally stopped trekking in a valley with 5,100 soldiers.

The soldiers lit bonfires, the men built stoves, and the team leaders counted their men with bamboo chips.

It was late at night, and instead of building barracks, the soldiers gathered around the campfire to keep warm.

Yougen squatted on a towering mountain rock, looking into the distance, Liu Heng was beside him, his face puzzled.

"What's wrong?"

"General. ”

Turning his head to look at Liu Heng with a puzzled face, Yougen smiled slightly.

"Our army is still far from the enemy, and time is running out. ”

"Oh. ”

Hearing this, Liu Heng frowned slightly, was silent for a moment, and said, "What's the matter?"

"General. ”

Yougen turned around, his hands arched over each other, and his eyes met Liu Heng's.

"If the general trusts Yougen, ask the general to pull out the camp immediately after eating. ”

"Take advantage of the night, go back a hundred miles!"

Bowing his head and muttering for a moment, Liu Heng's face was slightly hesitant, and said: "After a day's trek today, our army is already exhausted, and if we trek for a hundred miles, will our army no longer have combat strength tomorrow?"

"If the enemy comes at that time, will our army not be in danger? ”

"General. ”

There is a grim complexion, a slight look in the eyes, no longer the lazy and easy-going during the day.

"The total number of enemy soldiers is several times that of our army, our army has robbed its grain wagons, and the enemy now has no food and will not attack our army. ”

"If its food arrives, how will they let our army go, our army is lonely, how to resist it then, in the end, I am afraid that Yinshui Town will not be spared. ”

"Although our army has traveled a long distance and has no scouts, we also know that the enemy army is far away from our army, and if it wants to attack our army, it must not rush at night like our army, but at that time it is also tired to tired army. ”

"Besides, the soldiers of Anyang County have not come out, and there are slaves in all its places to make trouble, and the soldiers of Dingbian County have come out, and then Ancan not be chaotic?"

"If our army can hold back the soldiers of Dingbian County, the road behind it will be blocked by the rebels, and if we don't run out of food, we will be defeated. ”

At that time, the general took advantage of the situation to gather the surrendered troops and seize their slaves, so that he could fight a decisive battle with the county soldiers of Anyang County. ”

After Yougen finished speaking, there was a moment of silence between the two.

"As you say. ”

Finally, Liu Heng nodded slightly and smiled.

"After eating tonight, we will return a hundred miles. ”

Caoyun County, inside the spire attic.

Chen Fu, who was dressed in brocade clothes, had a straight back and sat upright on the white jade lion seat.

In the main hall, Chen Fu asked people to lean on the pillars and placed dozens of candlesticks painted with gold paint.

In each candlestick, there is a thick white candle.

At this time, on dozens of thick candles as pure white as fat, the charred wicks were burning.

The candlelight is bright, the light is soft, but it is like a veil.

Chen Fu didn't squint, he looked straight at the open space in front of him, like a face with a dim yellow veil on it, but his expression was as cold as frost.

"Did you find out?"

"Tell your lordship. ”

A female official in a white dress and a white skirt, wearing a white crown and hat, with pearl powder on her face, and white jade around her waist, knelt down in front of the stone steps under the jade seat.

"There was news of a rebellion by barbarians from the garrisons of Anyang County and Dingbian County, and it is said that cultivators had also been discovered. ”

"Anyang County?"

The brows on his forehead furrowed slightly, Chen Fu got up from the jade seat, pondered for a moment, and walked along the stairs towards the main hall with his feet raised.

"Zhou He?"

Walking straight past the female officer, Wen Short put his left hand behind his back, raised the stump and pointed in front of him.

"Hang up the map. ”

Wen Short deliberately raised his voice and stood still for a moment.

Silently, two female officials walked out of the corner of the hall on tiptoe carrying a shelf.

Placing the shelf in front of Wen Short, two more female officers in white walked up quickly.

A female officer holds a roll of shiny white vellum paper, and a female officer holds a copper plate.

In the copper plate, the ground cinnabar is bright in color.

Next to the red sand, there is a pen as white as snow.

Hang the vellum on a bar in the shelf and let the vellum unfold with gravity.

On the vellum was a map divided into dozens by a coherent line of ink.

Chen Fu did not move, his severed limbs wrapped in silk cloth, and pointed to the map painted with ink lines.

The female officer who was originally kneeling behind Chen Fu stood up, walked quickly to the shelf, and stretched out her hand to the female officer standing beside her, and picked up the pen in the copper plate.

Stained with cinnabar, the female officer pulled up the armcloth with one hand, and drew a circle on the map with a pen in the other hand along the position pointed to by Chen Fu's severed limb.

"The garrisons of the two counties have 10,000 people, and they are short and good at training and using troops. ”

"Zhou He is cunning and resourceful, and good at planning. ”

"Even if the barbarians make trouble, it shouldn't be a climate. ”

Putting down the severed limb and stretching out his left hand, the fingers of his left hand rubbed along a specific curve in a red circle.

"But where was the cultivator and the rebellious barbarians originally stationed?"

Where there is so much food to feed these barbarians.

Chen Fu's eyes condensed slightly, and his finger pointing to the map stopped, and on a map he pointed to, the words "Yinshui Town" were written.

Ahem, there was a power outage elsewhere yesterday, and I lost the network.

I'm sorry.

Finally, there is a place before me that I said that you can't read the words of this world, and the reason for this is actually that I made a mistake, but I simply made a mistake and reset it to highlight the gap between civilization between the cultivation world and mortals.

Let their words, habits, and tools make a difference.

As for why the text of the spiritual world is the same as modern Chinese, it will be explained later.

Don't blame the author if you can't tell.

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