Chapter 75 Mighty City (1)
That night, the Qinzhou City Pavilion in the northwest was still singing and dancing, and Zhao Jizha was in high spirits.
Zhao Jizha was appointed as the military supervisor by the Emperor of Shu and came to Qin Feng to inspect the military situation. He had just inspected Fengzhou a few days ago, but he had just arrived in Qinzhou. The local governors and governors were all easy to entertain, which made Zhao Jizha a little elated.
However, although the local generals were delicious and polite, they were stuffy and had no fun arrangements. Fortunately, Zhao Jizha brought her own concubine and singing girl, otherwise she would not be suffocated to death in this desolate land in the northwest.
More than a dozen singing girls were singing and dancing in the middle. Zhao Jizha was completely sleepy and was in great interest. The beautiful concubine next to her gently pushed a loquat away with her jade hands and sent it to Zhao Jizha's mouth. Zhao Jizha opened her mouth and bit her fingers gently. The concubine gently waved her pink fist and hit him on the shoulder, and said coquettishly: "Ah Lang is not honest when eating loquat!"
Zhao Jizha smiled "hoho".
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a middle-aged man wearing a hairpin rushed in, without saying hello. Zhao Jizha frowned.
The middle-aged scholar walked straight to Zhao Jizha and said in a deep voice: "The Zhou army has successively captured eight of our military camps, and the troops are at the mighty city."
"What? What are the eight military camps!" Zhao Jizhateng sat upright, "Where is the Vigor City?"
Wen Shidao: "North of Fengzhou, on Chencang Road."
Zhao Jizha was very anxious: "We came from Fengzhou. Fengzhou is gone, how can we go back?"
Wen Shi said: "The mighty martial arts governor Wang Huanzheng dispatched reinforcements to rush to reinforcements. It may be fine for a while."
Zhao Jizha stood up and said, "When did it happen?"
"Three days ago."
Zhao Jizha was even more anxious and said, "Go and ask Han Jixun to open the city gate, let's leave overnight!"
The concubines on the side heard them talking, quickly grabbed Zhao Jizha's robe and followed closely behind. The actors' singing and dancing also stopped, surrounded him in panic, and said in a lingering manner: "Alang, are we going to rush tonight?"
Zhao Jizha was furious: "I am going to rush to the road... Is it so hard to pull me? Can you ride a horse? How can you walk fast with you?"
The concubine suddenly cried, and the actors cried all over. Zhao Jizha was also upset. She had to spend money to buy it when she went back. She didn't make any money to go north and lost so many lovely girls. But life is important, so she can keep the green mountains without worrying about burning firewood.
That night, Zhao Jizha ignored the dissuasion of the generals and officials of Qinzhou, insisted on sending troops to escort them and fled Qinzhou overnight. Han Jixun, the governor of Xiongwu, who was stationed in Qinzhou, hurriedly asked him: "Does Qinzhou want to send troops to reinforce and support?"
Zhao Jizha said: "You ask me, who will I ask?"
Han Jixun said: "Prime Minister Wang is still on the West Road of Shannan. You happen to be the military supervisor appointed by the emperor. There is no one in Qinfeng's states to coordinate. Zhao Gong can order the two towns to mobilize troops to respond to emergency situations."
Zhao Jizha said: "I don't know!"
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At the North Zhou army camp in the mighty city, the sun had already set, and the ignition lights were connected together, contrasting with the stars in the sky. There was a long list of fire dragons behind it, like a shining Milky Way.
The gradually dimming light did not make the camp peaceful. The soldiers and the galloping horses filled the mountains with noise. Luo Yanhuan was practicing outside the tent, riding a horse and rushing past a pair of targets, quickly pulling his bow and shooting arrows. "Bang!" An arrow floated away from the speeding horse, hitting the bull's eye.
Yang Biao behind him was squatting on his horse's stance, and a long iron knife was inserted beside him. He suddenly widened his tiger's eyes and raised his long sword and waved it.
Guo Shao in the big tent looked at the scene outside for a while, then buried his head and stroked the drawings with his fingers as if he was thinking.
Guo Shao didn't take off his armor that night and didn't sleep well. He tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. It wasn't because he was wearing armor. He was a little nervous and thought about everything, but what happened when he really fought. God knows that this was his first battle with thousands of people. In a daze, he felt as if he was back on the eve of the college entrance examination, waiting for the announcement of his personal destiny.
The temperature difference between day and night in the mountains was large. The next day, just dawned, Guo Shao washed his face with river water, which was cold and biting.
The guards reported that Luo Yanhuan, the commander of the formation, had already begun to mobilize troops in front of him. Guo Shao pretended to be calm and put his face in cold water for a long time before wiping his face. Then he walked out of the tent, wiping his teeth with green salt, and brushing his teeth with forked branches. Seeing that he was not in a hurry, everyone passing by smiled.
Guo Shao ignored the generals and took Zuo You, Jing Niang and a group of personal soldiers to climb the hillside on the west side. The place he saw yesterday was that there was a relatively flat place like steps on the west side of the mountainside, and his vision was relatively wide.
When everyone climbed up the hillside, they looked down and saw dense crowds of people and flags like clouds. The Shu army set up formations outside the five arrows, and the flags were dancing randomly by the north wind, so they couldn't see what was written on it.
The sun rises among the mountains and ridges, and the light gradually dispels the mist in the mountains, and the wind blowing from the vent of the valley is called the turbulent wind and clouds outside the Majestic City. The flying eaves city tower is like a Taoist palace hidden in the deep mountains.
The shouts and noises of the generals under the hillside were noisy and rectifying the formation. Although the Zhou army placed a regular Yanyue Formation, although the surrounding area of the Weiwu City was relatively wide, the width was limited, and there could only be eight commanders on the front. In this way, both wings of the Yanyue Formation were thicker. Guo Shao waited for a while, and the mist was almost blown away by the wind. He saw a group of people vaguely surrounding a general on the city tower; he couldn't see clearly, but Guo Shao had a kind of intuition, and the man was also standing at a high place to observe the battle formation.
The two looked at each other from afar, and neither could see who was clear.
Guo Shao remembered the situation of the fight between generals in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and happened to send someone to test it out to see which group of soldiers of the Shu army were. He said to the personal soldiers behind him: "Go and call Li Chuyun."
After a while, Li Chuyun rode a horse from the gap in the middle of the military formation and reported to the hillside. Guo Shao shouted: "You bring a few people to ride a horse to provoke the opponent's generals. If the Shu army does not respond to the battle, they will see the flag clearly and come back to report."
Li Chuyun clasped his fists and said, "Get orders!"
At this time, more than a dozen generals gathered at the bottom of the hillside. They were supposed to fight the army in the formation, but Guo Shao wanted to go to the high place to watch, so everyone had to gather down the slope. Before the war, the chief general had to say a few words and order the battle. But Guo Shao didn't say anything to boost morale, and just said: "When he heard the continuous blowing of the trumpet, he was ready to fight; the drum sound was urgent, and the commanders ahead attacked together. For other military orders, I sent troops to send orders with the flag."
The generals answered one after another. Guo Shao waved his hand: "Let's leave. Yang Biao stay."
Then Guo Shao pointed to the position ahead and said, "The Shu army lineup is quite chaotic in the right wing. You bring 300 guards to the right wing to deploy. When you hear the trumpet, you will take the lead and attack directly on the right wing and try to break the formation."
Yang Biao raised his long sword and clasped his fists and said, "I'll get the order!"
At this moment, Li Chuyun brought several cavalry to the formation carrying flags and ran out 200 steps. The Shu army fired arrows in front of the army, and Li Chuyun and others stopped the war horses. After a moment, he heard him shouting: "Shu Kingdom does not care about Qin, Fengshimen and people. We are ordered by the Emperor of Great Zhou to recover the two states. Those who put down their weapons and serve them are also innocent children of "China". Those who block the king's army will never give up! I am Li Chuyun under the command of Guo Shaodu, the commander of the commander of the Western Expedition Army of Great Zhou. Who is the envoy of the envoy of the envoy of my vanguard? Let me sign up!"
The Shu army was in a mess, as if cursing.
After a while, a Shu army general led two cavalry out of the formation. Seeing this, Guo Shao understood that he could still fight one-on-one first in the battle. If he wins, he can boost morale and both sides have equal opportunities.
The man opposite shouted loudly, and Guo Shao could vaguely hear some words, but the whole sentence could not be heard clearly. Among them, the words "Wang Huan, the governor of the mighty army," probably heard.
Then Li Chuyun reached out and pointed at the general opposite and cursed. Both sides cursed, and then each raised their weapons to hedge. The war horses fought back and forth for two rounds, but they couldn't see how they fought. Then they saw the generals of the Shu army slapped their horses and ran back.
Li Chuyun took the bow and shot the arrow, and a feather flew over. The Shu general fell off his horse and rolled on the ground a few times.
Suddenly there was a burst of shouts in the army. Li Chuyun shot the man off the horse and turned around and left. The shouts became louder and louder, echoing in the mountains on both sides, and for a moment, like a giant dragon roaring in the mountains, shaking the earth.
Guo Shao shouted: "Blow the trumpet!"
A row of soldiers under the hillside bulged their cheeks and blew the big horns to blow their lives. The vigorous horns drifted with the wind. Countless spears in front were flattened, and the army was surging. Then the drums were loudly sounded, and the army that looked densely thrust forward, like a sword light pushing steadily, or like a huge black wave surging.
Chapter completed!