Chapter 153 The Battle of Purple Mountain (5)(1/2)
At this time, a wall was built for Zhou soldiers to break through with a wood, but there were still many Tang soldiers fighting with swords. Luo Xiaoyao thought to himself and looked at Lei Jiao who was about to leave, "Mr. Lei stayed..."
When Lei Jiao was stunned, Luo Xiaoyao untied Zhu Guang'an's sleeping hole, but also sealed his mute hole, pushed him to Xiao Muyun, then walked to the side of the Tang Bing's body not far away, took three helmets, put one on his head, and handed the other two to Xiao and Lin.
Reggio suddenly understood what Luo Xiaoyao meant, and walked with Luo Xiaoyao to the gate of the village with a wry smile.
"Listen, the general has an order to abandon his weapons and surrender..."
The sound of Luo Xiaoyao shouting with the "Sky Thunder" was overwhelming the fighting sounds all over the mountains. In an instant, the soldiers and guards on the city wall stopped fighting and raised their eyes to look at the entrance of the camp. After a few breaths, they heard the sound of "bang" on the wall, and many Tang soldiers put down their weapons.
"Mr. Lauré..."
Lei Jiao looked at Zhu Guang'an with a complicated expression, sighed, bowed to Luo Xiaoyao, and then rushed to the north hillside.
Upon climbing the wall building on the stone stairs, Li Chongjin laughed and led Elder Fu. Zhao Kuangyin came over, "The three of you have made great achievements this time, and Li Chongjin will definitely report to the Emperor Ming, haha..."
After laughing, Gao Huaide came quickly from the north wall, "The last general led his troops to the wooden plank road... but he set fire to the Tang soldiers himself."
Luo Xiaoyao looked at the end of the wall building on the north hillside, and thought to himself, "I just heard this person's tone, as if he would say that there would be Tang soldiers coming to help... Could it be that it was just taking the connected plank road?"
Li Chongjin pointed to the north and said, "Yes, the Tang army was stationed in the valley between the peaks in the north. There were walls on each mountain slope, forming stacks to connect to each other in order to support each other. The same is true here. Bypassing this peak and going north for more than three miles, it is a wooden plank road, connecting the Tang army camp to the north."
"Oh?!" Luo Xiaoyao was puzzled, "Then why did the Tang soldiers send troops to help and burn the plank road?"
"I think it's because our Great Zhou soldiers often attacked this camp and failed to take it down. The Tang soldiers in the north felt contemptuous and thought that our army could not capture this time... After discovering something was wrong, it was too late, and I was afraid that our army would attack directly from the plank road, so I set fire to it."
Li Chongjin paused and looked at the top of the mountain to the north. "The beacon tower on the top of the peak once ignited the beacon smoke twice. The first time was when our army launched an attack, and the second time was before half a stick of incense, our army knocked down nearly a hundred feet of walls on the flat ground."
"I think someone brought troops to help at that time. When the granary was caught fire, the morale of the Tang soldiers was in chaos. When they saw General Gao leading his troops there, they withdrew their troops back to the camp... and burned the plank road at the same time."
Luo Xiaoyao moved his right hand and untied Zhu Guang'an's mute acupoint with anger. He hesitated for a moment, and said, "I heard that this human uncle is the commander of the camp for the Tang army this time..."
"Oh?!" Li Chongjin was surprised and looked at Zhu Guang'an, "You are Zhu Yuan's nephew? This is strange. Logically speaking, he should have sent troops to help..."
Zhu Guangan glared angrily, snorted, but did not answer.
Li Chongjin thought for a moment and said, "General Gao, send troops to knock down these walls and clean up the battlefield... Master Luo will return to the camp first and then discuss."
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At the time of Chen, Luo Xiaoyao settled in the camp.
"As Raggio said...who would be the person who shot and killed Elder Liu?" Elder Fu said suspiciously.
"Is it possible that it is Elder Liu and the others' enemies?" Lin Wan said in real words.
"We are waiting for the elders to hide in Tongbao Pavilion for many years and never make grudges with the people in the martial arts world..." Elder Fu shook his head, "What's more, Elder Liu and his friends came to the army to help, and few people know about this."
"The murderer, with his cultivation of the Dacheng of the Pill, hid among ordinary soldiers and shot Elder Liu and the others with arrows... He did not do fame or hatred, so what was his purpose?"
Lin Wanzhen paused for a moment, pondered for a moment, and looked at Luo Xiaoyao, "I should tell you about this matter to Mr. Chu Nanfeng... I think someone targeted Tongbao Pavilion, and I am afraid that I will use arrows to attack the chaos."
"Miss Lin said that the murderer was afraid that I would see the history from martial arts skills... so he would hurt people with hidden arrows?"
Lin Wanzhen nodded, "Yes, if this person uses martial arts tricks to kill Elder Liu and the others, my husband will definitely be able to see his origin..."
Luo Xiaoyao was shocked when he thought of Luo Hanshui's injury. "Master once said that Zhi tried to go to Lingxiu Mountain Village to hurt my father in order to use his magical power to see where Lingxiu Mountain Village is. Now it seems that it is probably not... Ying Ru's junior sister said, someone was targeting Tongbao Pavilion."
"But since the establishment of Tongbao Pavilion, it has been stipulated that people in the Pavilion should not interfere in the world..." Elder Fu seemed to have some awareness and paused, "Did the young master say that this disaster was caused by the fact that I intervened in the court?"
Luo Xiaoyao thought Elder Fu was not aware of the matter of the tomb formation, but he was not inconvenient to guess it out of his mind. He nodded and said, "Someone doesn't want to see the great power of the Great Zhou court, knowing that my father is strongly helping the Great Zhou... and then asked the elders in the Pavilion to secretly protect the emperor, so he bought Zhishu and hurt my father and assassinated all the elders."
Elder Fu pondered and said, "No one knows about Elder Liu coming to the army. If it weren't for the fact that there was a lie beside the Emperor of Southern Tang... Shen Liancheng didn't know about it, it would be that someone in my Great Zhou Dynasty had a ill-behavior."
Luo Xiaoyao thought so in his heart, and nodded after hearing this, "The murderer may still be hidden in the Tang army camp in Zijin Mountain... The ultimate goal should be to be unfavorable to the emperor. I just asked the envoy to make a statement. Three days later, the emperor led the navy to the south. At that time, we will protect the emperor."
"Okay, Mr. Jiang will definitely come with you, and we will discuss how to deal with it at that time." Elder Fu nodded and said, "In the past two or three days, the young master can rest in the camp first... Do not act alone, in case of being taken by the murderer."
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Three days later, Guo Rong led the navy to Shouzhou, and what surprised Luo Xiaoyao even more was that Wu Wangbo, Hua Qianxing and Zhao Yinshan also arrived together.
It turned out that as soon as the bodies of Elder Liu and the other three were transported to Kaifeng, Manager Pei immediately asked Jianwei to send a message to Mowang Island. At that time, Wu happened to be Wu and Hua and the other two went to the island to visit Luo Hanshui. After learning about it, they thought of Shouzhou to help the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Zhao Yinshan had arrived on the island since mid-autumn last year and wanted to go with Wu and Hua and the other two went together.
Chu Nanfeng wanted to fight between the two armies, so there were naturally some masters of Baodan to accompany the army in the Southern Tang army, but he believed that Elder Liu and the other three were shot and killed by the masters of Southern Tang. He also knew that Luo Xiaoyao and the other two had also gone to Shouzhou, so he agreed to Zhao Yinshan go together.
After hearing Li Chongjin's report on the capture of Nantang Camp, Guo Rong was very happy. "The land of Jingnan is really outstanding. Not only are there people coming to help me train the navy in the Great Zhou, but there is also a wonderful plan for Miss Wanzhen to help me break the enemy camp. I should thank King Changnan..."
He knew that Lin Wanzhen, Luo Xiaoyao, and Xiao Muyun were not greedy for fame and fortune, but he was complacent with Gao Bao.
"Then where is Zhu Guang'an's lower body?"
"He was injured by an arrow, and Weichen settled him in the Shenhu Camp and asked someone to heal him." Li Chongjin responded.
"Do you have the intention to surrender?"
"This person is still unwilling to accept defeat..."
"Oh!?" Guo Rong smiled, his eyes turned to the map on the table. After a while, he stood up and said, "Take me to Zijin Mountain to see..."
After checking the shapes of the two mountains on the south and west sides of Zijin Mountain, when he reached the gate of the Shenhu Yingwei Guard, Guo Rong suddenly stopped and looked at Zhao Kuangyin, "Zhao Aiqing, take Zhu Guang'an with me and the others to the Huaihe military ship..."
Everyone didn't know what they meant, but they didn't dare to ask. Zhao Kuangyin hurriedly bowed and took Zhu Guang'an in person. The crowd accompanied Guo Rong to the Huaihe military ship moored northwest of Shouzhou City.
Upon boarding the second floor of the commander's warship, Guo Rong ordered the navy's military ship to sail eastward, with a waterway of more than ten miles. When he arrived at the river in the north of Zijin Mountain, he ordered the navy to stop moving forward.
Leading everyone to the deck, pointing at the Tang Bing camp in the valley north of Zijin Mountain, looking at Zhu Guang'an, "General Zhu, who is the leader of the first camp to the west?"
Zhu Guang'an looked at the valley north of Zijin Mountain, hesitated for a moment, and said, "It is the northwest camp support envoy Xu Wenzhen, Lord Xu..."
"What about the second camp?"
"The army commandered the Lord on the side of the pickaxe."
"Is the third camp for...?"
"The military supervisor Sun Linsun, the fourth village is for the capital supervisor Zhu Yuanzhu, and the fifth camp is for the..."
"Wait." Guo Rong smiled at Zhu Guang'an who was preparing to answer in one go, turned his eyes to the fourth camp of the Tang Bing, and said, "I heard that Lord Zhu Yuan and Zhu are your uncle?"
“It’s…”
"Four days ago, when my Great Zhou troops attacked your Pioneer Camp, did General Zhu send a message to Mr. Zhu Yuan and Zhu?"
Zhu Guangan looked at Luo Xiaoyao and sighed, "When the soldiers reported that someone had digged a tunnel and sneaked in... the defeated general was asking for help from his uncle."
Guo Rong nodded, looked at the Tang soldiers stationed in Zijin Mountain for a moment, and suddenly said, "All the kings under the sky are kings, and all the kings are kings... General Zhu is both civil and military, and I think he knows what the word "king" means?!"
Zhu Guang'an was stunned, "The defeated general has a shallow sense of talent, how dare he speak the kingly way..."
"People think that the word "king" refers to a king and an emperor, but I think that the word "king" is for the people and for the thousands of people who want peace in the world today... Therefore, the army and brigade that fought for peace in the world since ancient times can be called the "king" teacher."
When everyone heard this, they looked at each other with a stern look.
"This is like me, the emperor, general and minister of Li Jing, is to make the people's peace and minds come true, and to act on behalf of the people's hearts. I am uneven. I am a virtuous person... General Zhu, can I deserve this word "I"?"
Zhu Guang'anhuan looked at the solemn people on the deck, and suddenly felt cold sweat and dared not answer in panic.
Guo Rong smiled faintly and looked at the navy commander Wang Huan, "Wang Aiqing, send a good water person to boat to see General Zhu Yuan, the Tang Bingdu Supervisor, stationed in front of Zhu Yuan, the camp..."
Wang Huan looked at Li Chongjin, Zhao Kuangyin and others who were bowing their heads and responded with a polite manner: "I obey the order."
Zhu Guang'an was stunned for a moment, covered his right shoulder and knelt on the deck, "The defeated general Zhu Guang'an thanked His Majesty the Emperor of Great Zhou..." He then stood up and followed Wang Huan.
Guo Rong approached the barrier and looked at the small boat carrying Zhu Guang'an, but said nothing.
Everyone did not dare to say anything. They followed Guo Rong's gaze and looked at the boat that had already sailed out nearly a hundred feet. At this time, they saw more than ten soldiers running out of the Tang Bing camp three miles away from the river bank and ran towards the embankment quickly. When they brought the embankment, they all pulled arrows and were about to shoot.
After a while, I thought I had recognized the person riding the boat for Zhu Guang'an. The soldiers put away their bows and arrows and saw someone jumping to the boat close to the embankment, helping Zhu Guang'an, who was injured on his right shoulder, to the embankment.
But at this moment, Guo Rong withdrew his gaze and looked at Luo Xiaoyao, "How long will it take for junior brother to burn the granary after he sneaked into the tunnel?"
Luo Xiaoyao thought for a moment, "It took more than half an hour..."
Guo Rong nodded and pondered: "No matter how careless the Tang soldiers were, I thought our army could not capture the vanguard camp, and ignored the military situation of the beacon tower. However, the journey of the vanguard camp to the nearly ten miles of the wooden plank road from Zhuyuan camp, from learning the news to dispatching troops, sending troops... a stick of incense can reach the vanguard camp, and there is still about a moment of free time."
"Zhu Yuanzi didn't know when the Pioneer Camp would be destroyed by our army, but when he knew that the military situation was urgent, he would make preparations to pass on the beacon and let Xu Wenzhen's troops close to the Pioneer Camp rescue first..."
"The emperor said that the Tang army was in different morale, or there was a marriage between Zhu Yuan and Xu Wenzhen..." Gao Huaide said.
"If this were not the case, even if Xu Wenzhen did not send troops to rescue him, Zhu Yuan's troops who could have arrived a moment in advance would never appear before the fire burned the granary... And the reason why he could not arrive was that the plank road connected to the Pioneer Camp was destroyed by fire."
Guo Rong paused, pointed to the mountain on the right side of Zhu Yuan camp and said, "As I expected, Zhu Yuan might be willing to surrender because of this, but military affairs cannot be speculated and acted... Gao Aiqing, are there three thousand Tang soldiers on the three peaks in the south?"
"It should be as the emperor expected..." Gao Huaide responded.
Guo Rong nodded, "You can send troops to attack the peaks south of Zijin Mountain tomorrow afternoon. Once the Tang soldiers threw stones and shot arrows on the peak, they could let the troops retreat and attack again... to exhaust their spirits, and it became dark, but they could retreat to the camp."
"I obey the order."
"Li Aiqing..."
"I am here." Li Chongjin bowed and said.
"Tomorrow is three o'clock, Li Aiqing will lead 10,000 troops and take a light boat with the navy and attack the first camp to the fourth camp from here... The navy's eight thousand troops will support you on the military ship, and you will be able to kill the enemy with all your strength."
"I obey the order."
Guo Rong looked at Zhao Kuangyin, "I just saw that there were beacon towers on both peaks on the west side. When Gao Aiqing attacked the south tomorrow, please ask Junior Brother Luo and Mr. Fu to lead the Shenhu Camp and guard from the west, and sneak up to the top of the peak. When you take down the beacon tower, lead 8,000 troops to climb the mountain from the west, and divide 3,000 troops to attack the guards on the south side... Another 5,000 troops can directly attack the mountain on the right side of Zhu Yuan's camp."
Luo Xiaoyao was delighted when he heard this. He raised his eyes to Zhu Yuan’s camp, but saw that the hillside of the mountain on the right seemed to reach the river bank, and a dense forest connected to the river bank was different from the peaks on the left and westwards that were more than a mile away from the river bank.
On the back of each camp stationed between the peaks, a wooden plank road can be seen on the hillside in a crescent shape, and there are beacon towers above the peaks surrounded by the plank road.
"It is important to arrive tomorrow at three o'clock. The Shenhu Camp guards guarded the eastward wooden plank road to prevent the camps in the east from hearing the sound... The rest of the camps blocked the right mountain peak to prevent the Tang soldiers from fleeing east. If Zhu Yuan was willing to surrender, he could ask his troops to kill the other three camps. At that time, you can lead troops to kill the camps in the east."
To be continued...