Chapter 225 The low-profile ‘Zhao Kuo’
The whiteness of the fish belly fills the eastern sky, and every inch of morning light breaks through the clouds.
Grass flying in the Lijiaping wilderness, the ground in the fields, mountains and forests was shaking. Thousands of soldiers and war horses rushed through and over the mountains and ridges in a race against time to reach their destination.
"Quick! Quick! Follow up!"
"Comrades from the Youyan Army, don't let the Xiliang Army get ahead!"
"Wait a minute, I haven't gotten on the train yet!"
The wagons carrying food were rising and falling in the fields and roads. There were more than a dozen soldiers crowded on them, and some of them accidentally took off. The soldiers outside the car were chasing after him with spears.
There are also war horses galloping in groups in the mountains, forests and fields. The cavalry above are whipping their whips wildly and quickly pass the carriages carrying the soldiers. Behind them, there are animals far away from the cavalry. Slaves, they carry the equipment parts of catapults and ghost crossbows on their backs, and run forward on the tracks of carts and horse hoofs.
The huge six-wheeled ancestral hearse was guarded by the shield warriors and was also rushing to the front. Su Chen held the Xia Wang Sword in both hands, his eyes were cold and yet burning with the heat of cutting through everything. He looked at this There are torrents running in the field of vision.
"The Zulong has spoken, let's decide the outcome in a battle..." He looked into the distance and whispered.
Behind him and on both wings, more cavalry were running quickly, crossing the front.
More than fifty miles away, a huge camp stretching from east to west is slowly waking up. The newly replaced governor, Du Lingyan, is thirty-six and in his prime. Regarding the previous procrastinating tactics of Zhao Guangshi, he is in Lu Yang Shi was extremely dissatisfied. He often complained in front of Yuan Feng, the Minister of War, and at the same time expressed openly and secretly that he could and dared to fight.
Yuan Feng, who had long complained about Zhao Guangshi's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, admired this heroic and energetic young general of the imperial court.
In addition, Yuan Feng saw through the fact that the two armies outside the city were defeated one after another, and the emperor was already angry. He wanted to fight a beautiful turnaround and was eager to win, and successfully promoted his subordinate Du Lingyan to the governorship. location.
Now that the whole court is frightened by the Yan army's successive victories, only these energetic young generals want to fight and dare to fight!
Du Lingyan was also well aware of this. In compliance with the intentions of the emperor and the Minister of War, as soon as he took office today, he changed Zhao Guangshi's previous defense deployment and military regulations.
He even replaced some middle-level generals, and he comforted some of the criticisms of some of the leading generals in the tent.
"The replacement of the middle-level generals is not to exclude them, but to better enforce orders and prohibitions and implement military orders!"
He walked among the generals in the tent with his hands behind his back, speaking with confidence. .
"...I know you have complaints in your heart, but you also know that the old general's orders have been implemented in the army for a long time. If they are not replaced, they will definitely conflict with my new military orders. I am very good at running the army. Yan also demanded that the orders must be carried out, so he temporarily removed them, and then transferred them back after the Yan army on the opposite side was destroyed. "
Du Lingyan knew that some of these generals would be conflicted and dissatisfied, so his words implied that he was very strict in running the army, and you should not fall into his hands by violating the rules.
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves broke into the camp gate and rushed towards the commander's tent. The person who came was a scout. As soon as he got off his horse, he was captured by several Du Lingyan's soldiers outside before he could open his mouth.
"I have an army..."
"The Grand Governor has just changed the military regulations. You are not allowed to ride a horse within two hundred steps of the commander's tent!"
"I am..."
"It doesn't matter whether you are the King of Heaven or not, you palmer!"
Several soldiers stepped forward and pushed the scout to the ground. They put their spear handles on the opponent's neck. One of them lifted his leather helmet and grabbed his hair. Bun raised his face up, raised his hand and slapped him down a few times.
Far away from the camp, there are several figures on horseback running towards the camp gate.
In the handsome tent, Du Lingyan's words continued.
"...The old general is prudent, but his delay in fighting makes His Majesty and Yuan Shangshu unhappy. You also know that the Yan army traveled a long distance and attacked the Wei Dynasty in three directions. How could the baggage, troops and horses be intact on the way? ? Even though we were victorious in the Linqiu and Guangfu battles, why was he so secretive? His purpose was to prevent us from finding out what was true. Now he was retreating twenty-seven miles. What he said about respecting General Zhao was actually They feel guilty that they do not have enough troops to defeat the 160,000 troops of Wei Dynasty!" Seeing the faces of the generals, Du Lingyan was still satisfied. He smiled: "Now that I take office, I will sweep away the decadence of the old generals before! Feng, take the initiative to attack, with 160,000 troops and horses. They are strong wherever and whenever they are placed. All the generals will work with me to attack the great Wei Dynasty and make the children of Yan country frightened!"
After the words fell, screams came from outside the tent, and then the sound of horse hooves came galloping, causing all the generals in the tent to look sideways at the curtain.
"What's going on outside?"
The brewing atmosphere was suddenly interrupted. Du Lingyan frowned and called the soldiers outside to ask.
“Report to the Commander-in-Chief, a cavalryman who broke into the tent without permission.”
Mengtuo stood up and said, "Grand Governor, could you be the scout who came to report?!"
Du Lingyan's face changed slightly at these words, and he said: "How could I not know." He was immediately shocked. He walked over and opened the curtain, and saw a man wearing leather armor and dark skin, his cheeks red and swollen from being slapped.
Before he could speak, several fast horses passed through the gate and entered the Chinese army camp. They jumped off their horses one after another, and saw that the first comrades who came were pinned to the ground, which made the following few The scout showed surprise and anger.
"Grand Governor, we are here to report the military situation... What does this mean?!"
Du Lingyan coughed dryly and quickly waved his hands to disperse the four soldiers who were pressing and slapping people. , "We will discuss this matter later, let's talk about the military situation first!"
The few scouts who were anxious to report back saw their companions being beaten like this. They gritted their teeth and slowly raised their hands, knelt down on their knees, and then slowly opened their mouths to report.
"... Grand Governor, there was movement in the Yan army camp early this morning. The Yan army originally stationed there suddenly stopped retreating and came towards this direction!"
Another scout He also raised his hands: "When I came back, we were already thirty miles away, and now I'm afraid it's almost twenty miles away!"
"You guys just came back to report the news!"
Du Lingyanqi He yelled, and the several scouts on the opposite side held their hands and said nothing. Instead, they all turned their faces and looked at the scout who was in a state of embarrassment and whose cheeks were red from being beaten.
Here, Du Lingyan's rough face suddenly turned red, but at this moment, facing the enemy was the most important thing, so he hurriedly turned around and gave instructions to the generals.
Of the generals who came out, except for the two he brought, the generals from Huizhou had already left and returned to their own camps to instruct the enemy. However, the generals who came out from Gyeonggi looked like they were mentally retarded. Looking at this great governor, I felt for a moment that Master Zhao Guang was worthy of being a famous general.
"Meet the enemy first. I have done something wrong here, and I will worry about it later."
After explaining, he quickly pressed down these trivial and embarrassing things. After all, internal We will talk about that later, and then issued orders for the army to assemble one after another. The troops of Wuyue and Suiqing on the left and right flanks were sent out quickly, and in response to the central formation, they quickly crossed the field and surrounded the opponent from two directions.
When he spoke quickly and issued orders one after another, the more than 70,000 troops of Yan State, who had the intention of destroying the country, had already begun to press over.
Horses rushed in one after another, reporting battles one after another, and rushed into the military camp like snowflakes. When the news came crazily, the fences connected to the camp gate were smashed to pieces by a stone bullet.
The archers on the sentry tower shot loud arrows and shouted hysterically. In the distant wilderness, trebuchets threw a large number of stone bullets, flying across a long trajectory, falling towards the Wei military camp and smashing it. At the same time as the fence was being raised, densely packed cavalry were running across the field and charging towards this side.
The cavalry plowed the ground with a thunderous sound, and the whole world changed color.
Today is the death anniversary of my father-in-law. I went out to pay homage to my father-in-law. When I came back, I quickly coded a chapter.
Continue coding later
(End of this chapter)