Chapter 102 Tiger and Calf (4)
On the evening of October 14, Zhao Kuangyin and Zheng En led dozens of vanguard troops to appear in front of Xiaoluling with gray faces covered in gray.
Zhao Kuangyin carefully cleaned his face, black stains on his neck and hands in a small stream, threw away the black handkerchief, and turned to look back at Xiaoluling in front of him.
Xiaolu Ridge is more than 200 meters high and is connected to the main peak with a narrow passage, surrounded by cliffs; Xiaolu Ridge, which has been overburdened, has now become a black "Hedgehog Mountain". After the fire, the tree trunks that seem strangely shaped were cut down and broken down. The branches are uniformly facing north and placed in a messy manner at the southern end of the middle passage and on both sides. Behind the branches are the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty staring at this side.
Zhao Kuangyin looked into the distance and could vaguely see Qingliu Pass in the northwest and Chuzhou City in the southeast. He snorted coldly, called Zheng Enhe and Li Cheng, whose face was burned with a big blister, and whispered a few words. The two left with some soldiers.
Zhao Kuangyin called on the rest of his brothers and everyone rested on the spot and had something to eat temporarily.
Before it was dark, several soldiers in Southern Tang uniforms rushed to the city of Chuzhou, shouting about emergency military information and requesting to enter the city to meet the governor. The soldiers guarding the city dared not open the city gate easily. After shouting, they did not know how to shout clearly, so they hung paper and pen to the city to let the people explain their purpose.
The visitor waved his pen and wrote that they were snipers on the mountain road. By implementing the trick of setting fire to the mountains, they have successfully damaged most of the enemy's attacks. Now they are trapping the remaining enemy troops in Xiaoluling. Please don't worry, please beware of any enemy invasion into the city.
Immediately afterwards, the soldiers who reported the news shouted that they would go to the front line to kill the enemy and earned their merits, and left in a hurry.
The news was quickly passed to Chuzhou Governor Wang Shaoyan. Lord Wang, who had been hesitating whether to send troops all afternoon, felt relieved and immediately ordered the rescue troops who had finally gathered to disband on the spot.
In the original history, when Emperor Chai Rong of the Later Zhou Dynasty led a large army south four years later, and the Qinghuai Jiedushi Liu Renshan was trapped to death in Shouzhou, Huangfu Hui and Yao Feng were forced to retreat to Qingliu Pass, the actions of Chuzhou Governor Wang Shaoyan at that time were very shameful: he directly abandoned the city and fled. From this we can see that such an adult now has only 13,000 elite Tang Dynasty guarding the city, but he has been unable to decide whether to send reinforcements or how many reinforcements should be sent.
Seeing that the soldiers who had finally gathered together began to dismount, unarmed and released weapons, and stomped their feet back and forth, waiting for reinforcements, Xin Fangge, who was about to go crazy, rushed up and grabbed the reins of the commander's horse, knelt on the ground and asked them to go to the front line to see it no matter how he left. When he left at noon, Wu Duwei was holding his will and preparing to defend Xiaoluling. Why did he become an enemy and be trapped in Xiaoluling again?
The commander of the leader saw that his pants were stained with a small piece of tears by Xin Fangge's tears, and immediately became angry. He impatiently kicked the child-like soldier aside and ordered him to disband and return to the camp immediately.
Xin Fangge rushed up again and asked to see the governor, so he was naturally unceremonious and rushed outside the governor's mansion by his subordinates.
Xin Fangge stood in front of the spacious governor's mansion and cried loudly, which made many Chuzhou people strangely watch the young baby soldier.
After crying for a while, Xin Fangge thought of something, and with tears, he ran to the north gate, begged the soldiers guarding the city for a meeting, and he took a rope and got off the city and disappeared into the night in the north.
Just as Xin Fangge was running wildly, the gate on the south side of Qingliu Pass opened wide. The commander Cheng Kai and five hundred soldiers lined up out of the city and headed straight for Xiaoluling.
As early as the afternoon, Qingliu Pass received an urgent request for help from Wu Qing, but because of the hostile attitude of coach Huangfu Hui to Wu Qing, his confidants were naturally not interested in Wu Qing. Everyone agreed that Wu Qing was a big fucking fuck who was very happy and ignored the emperor. It was this mentality that the main general guarding the pass interrogated the young soldiers who came to report the news for a long time before putting them into Guancheng. After that, it took several rounds of interrogation, which delayed for more than half an hour before the message was transmitted to Guanlou in front.
By chance, the soldiers of the Later Zhou Dynasty were attacking fiercely, and Huangfu Hui was fighting in person again. The information for help was delayed for half an hour. In the evening, the soldiers of the Later Zhou Dynasty stopped attacking the key points. The information was only remembered by a deputy general and reported to the north camp support envoy, Huangfu Hui, the governor of Fenghua, Huangfu Hui.
Huangfu Hui was really unlucky in the afternoon. He was not injured during the chaos. However, in the final stage of the war, a sharp arrow that changed direction flew over his left forearm and bit off a large piece of skin. He was bleeding profusely. When he heard this message, Huangfu Hui was so angry that he was so angry that he was slapped and slapped his desk: "I misled me, and even five hundred people couldn't defend a small mountain road. It's so useless. He also called himself a special warrior. I'm so mad."
The governor Yao Feng hurried over, whispered to comfort the old general, and hurriedly said a few more fair words: "General Huangfu, Wu Qing was forced to set fire to the mountain, which means that there should be many enemy troops coming along the mountain road. There is no water or food on the mountain, so they are unlikely to stick to it. It is better to send reinforcements as soon as possible, otherwise Qingliu Pass will inevitably be attacked from the enemy and become a lonely pass."
Huangfu Hui finished gnawing a bowl of rice with his head down, and suddenly exploded. He threw the bowl in his hand to the ground and said angrily: "Okay, let's send Cheng Kai to bring 500 people over. If this way, I can't defend Xiaoluling. I'll see if I won't cut off this bastard's head."
The commander Cheng Kai, who received the order, also led his men to the war in the afternoon. He suffered a lot of losses under the fierce attack of the Zhou army. After he ordered reinforcements, half an hour passed before he left the city in the dark.
After leaving the city for more than a mile, Cheng Kai saw several torches appearing in the direction of the mountains from afar. He immediately stopped the infantry and took three personal guards and drove up.
"This general, we are here to rescue. Xiaoluling can't stand it anymore. Please ask the general to rescue your brothers." A black-faced soldier in Southern Tang uniform immediately rushed over and shouted loudly when he saw the reinforcements.
"Whose subordinate is you, what is your name? Why haven't I seen you?" Cheng Kai stared at the black-faced soldier with some confusion.
The black-faced man wiped his hands on his face twice, and his face was even more chaotic, and he couldn't tell who it was. He bent down and smiled and said, "Go back to the general, the young man was originally a soldier in Qingliu Pass. In the afternoon, we were all fumigated by fire and had no time to clean up. General, the rescue is like putting out a fire. Please save your brothers. There are not many enemies. Once the general leads the army, he will definitely turn defeat into victory."
Cheng Kai was so excited that he was called "General" by this black-faced man. He nodded slightly, pointed at the black-faced man with a horse whip, and said in a lengthened tone: "Okay, I will set out now and lead the way."
The black-faced man jumped up happily, lay on the ground and knocked his head, turned around and ran towards Xiaoluling.
Cheng Kai waved his hand and led his army to quickly follow.
The journey of one mile was soon completed, and the shadow of Xiaoluling was right in front of me, but there was no sound of fighting except for a few sporadic fires on the mountain.
The black-faced man approached Cheng Kai, with an unquestionable expression and murmured: "Why don't you fight anymore? Are we winning or Zhou Jun winning?"
Cheng Kai listened with his ears, and there was no sound coming from the mountain, and he felt confused.
"General, look at where is it ours?" The black-faced man suddenly jumped up in surprise, grabbed Cheng Kai's reins, pointed to a black shadow in front and said loudly.
Cheng Kaining looked at the eyes and found that the black shadow seemed to be moving, but it didn't seem to move. Just as he turned to ask the black-faced man, he found a cold under his ribs and a steel knife stabbed into his body.
"General, what's wrong with you?" The black-faced man smiled grimly on his face, grabbed Cheng Kai with his left hand and pulled him down, and shouted loudly: "Do it."
As soon as these two words came out, many figures jumped from the low depressions near the front and back of the surrounding ground, sharp arrows, stones, and javelins, and at the same time attacked the helpless reinforcements of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the middle.
The black-faced man played by Zheng Eun made several blows to kill Cheng Kai and several personal guards. He fell down and shouted loudly: "Hurry, hurry up, end the battle quickly."
Nearly a thousand ambush Zhou soldiers rushed up and chopped down the three hundred soldiers from the Southern Tang who could still stand to the ground one by one, stripped off their clothes, quickly cleaned the battlefield, and hid in the dark again.
Chapter completed!