Delong

Chapter 312 Tiger Row (13)

"General, this can't be the case anymore! This Yitian sword is too powerful! It's like a one-man army!"

In the dark night, with the chill and the sound of rumbling horseshoes, while Li Lizai next door was being beaten, his trusted subordinate Zhang Gongshen gave advice to Luo Shu who was lying on the horse in a panic. "And we are boa constrictors who have been hit on the head by someone. We have an advantage in strength, but we can't deploy it at all! We can't run! If this continues, we will be beaten to death in the middle of the night! At that time, we can't say There will be many more casualties!"

"I know!" Luo Shu shivered as he looked at the flashing golden light in the distance. "But I have already parted ways with Li Li... If we part again, we won't even be able to stop it!"

"But it still doesn't work, besides Bai Sanniang, there are two Ningdans on the opposite side! In addition, there are assembled troops!" Bai Xiangui next to him also pointed to a streamer following behind him to remind. "Wang Zhen was following us right behind, unable to get rid of both heads, and kept getting beaten... In short, we can't go west!"

"Where do you go if you don't go west?" Luo Shu obviously didn't get overwhelmed after being hit a few times.

But Bai Xiangui didn't have time to answer, because the golden light turned to this place again under the guidance of Wang Zhen behind him, and another golden light several feet wide swept down his head.

Luo Shu didn't say a word, and fought back with all his might, his blood was still tumbling, but this time, after blocking several attacks in a row, his side obviously screamed again and again. Just hit.

"Old Bai! Are you still alive?!"

With Bai Yousi's departure, in the dark night, Luo Shu didn't care about his injuries, and he didn't care about checking the dead and injured guards, and only came to ask questions immediately. "Say it! What were you going to do just now?!"

"Order the whole army to disperse and go home! Go north and return to Youzhou!" Bai Xiangui tried his best to answer, but his tone was distorted, but he didn't know if he was injured. "This is the Dengzhou reinforcements from the Chulong Gang. They are going to support the main battlefield in the west. We are going west at this time, and they just keep up all the way, gritting their teeth, but if we go north, they are unlikely to keep going Keep chasing, and we are cavalry, so we should spread out and go home, and they won't be able to chase us any more!"

Luo Shu hesitated for a moment.

Zhang Gongshen, who was standing next to him, immediately asked for him: "But how will Manager Xue explain? Besides, once the cavalry brigade disperses at night, I don't know when it will be that year and month...the battle will be over."

"How can we manage this now?" Bai Xiangui replied vigorously. "Our own family is about to fail! There are more than a dozen old brothers, and four or five have no news, and the major general is gone!"

At the end, Luo Shu shouted loudly: "Then give the order like this, let the whole army disperse, let everyone live their lives, and the squadrons go north and go home! Spread the order!"

"General!" It was Zhang Gongshen who heard the military order and tried his best to correct it. "You guys go back to the north, I will go to the Mamianhe camp by myself, and I will give you an explanation! It will save you from embarrassing Mr. Xue in the future!"

"Go!" Luo Shu replied immediately. "But don't go to see Xue Changxiong, so as not to lose your life, go to see Chen Bin and come back with a message!"

"Yes." Zhang Gongshen nodded, only following the stars in the dark night, hugging the horse's neck and continuing to head west.

And behind him, eight thousand Youzhou iron cavalry, just because of exhaustion after galloping for a day, bumped into a Hades head-on, and was unable to cast it, and was beaten on the head. The whole army broke up and fled north in the dark.

If Zhang Xing is here, I don't know if he will be ashamed.

With 25 battalions of soldiers and horses, he gathered more than half of the elites of the Dragon Gang, gathered 10,000+ auxiliary soldiers, field soldiers, and civilian husbands, and deployed so many supplies from the east. After learning the news, he quickly established a chessboard stronghold and fought On the seventh and eighth day, the result of the debate was nothing more than thousands of casualties and downsizing, and the family lost a leader.

As a result, Bai Yousi had just arrived, so it was fine to take Yangxin City first, it was considered an empty city, but then he defeated eight thousand Youzhou cavalry that night, drove away one Chengdan and one Ningdan, it was truly terrifying.

Of course, everyone knows that Zhang San will not feel ashamed, he will only be complacent.

And now he is unlikely to know, for him, Xie Minghe was just sent out yesterday morning to meet Bai Yousi, and now he is still worrying about Niu Da's life and death, how could he know so many things?

At daybreak, Zhang Gongshen, who was a master of horsemanship, arrived at the Mamianhe camp of the officers and soldiers. He arrived at the camp of the supervising army Sima Chen Bin with ease, and was summoned.

"Bai Sanniang led the Dengzhou army to Yangxin? Your whole army was defeated last night?" Chen Bin, who obviously got up temporarily and only wore a leather cloak, was stunned when he came up. "you sure?"

"The whole army has been defeated! My young general doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, and all the troops scattered and fled!" Zhang Gongshen said. "Bai Sanniang's Yitian Sword is too powerful. We were also unlucky. We marched dully. When the whole army was exhausted, we bumped into the city. Then she drove our general all the way... the leader of the Dragon Clan, the Great Sage with Arms Wang Zhen is also there, the Dengzhou Army is also there, and there is another old Taoist alchemist who claims to be Xianyun Yehe. We couldn't resist at all. ...I'm here for a special summons."

Chen Bin stared at the other party without saying a word.

Zhang Gongshen hurriedly said again: "Chen Sima, I didn't lie to you. After dawn, I guess there must be sporadic defeated soldiers coming before noon. In the evening, or tomorrow, the Dengzhou Army may also come. There is no need to lie to you about this kind of thing... ...Besides, Chen Sima himself can send people to the east to investigate."

Chen Bin still didn't say a word.

Zhang Gongshen didn't know what to say.

Finally, Chen Bin spoke again: "Are you sure?"

Zhang Gongshen was completely silent.

The two stared at each other for a long time, and finally it was Chen Bin who tried to stand up, but he couldn't get up after standing still, and Zhang Gongshen couldn't help but stepped forward to support the other party. The former romantic son of the Nanchen royal family barely stood up.

"Tell me... have you told anyone else this news?" Chen Bin's tone was flabbergasted.

"Of course not." Seeing the other party slowing down, Zhang Gongshen dropped his hands and hurriedly answered. "I have been a vanguard in Youzhou for more than ten years, how come I don't know the importance of military secrets? I was just ordered to speak to Chen Sima about this."

Chen Bin nodded: "That's all right... Where did you lose?"

"If they collide head-on under Yangxin City, they will be defeated immediately." Zhang Gongshen sat opposite him again.

"When?"

"Yesterday, the second watch did not arrive."

"When will it be over..."

"The third watch hasn't arrived yet."

"A lot of the army has gone to the north?"

"They are all cavalry, but the general is chased and beaten, and the soldiers are chased and killed. Once dispersed, they will naturally go back to their hometown..."

"Going to Leling?" Chen Bin suddenly realized.

"Really." Zhang Gongshen also reacted abruptly. "The three cities of Leling, Wudi, and Rao'an are close to each other. There are also the garrison of the Hejian Camp, and the prefect of Bohai Zhou. It is impossible to gather there this afternoon..."

As he spoke, Zhang Gongshen stood up abruptly.

"What are you doing?" Chen Bin immediately became nervous.

"I..." Zhang Gongshen was also at a loss for a while.

"I will send letters everywhere, how can I use you?" Chen Bin quickly scolded. "Just sit down and don't make trouble. If there are words, documents, or replies, I will come to you later."

Zhang Gongshen nodded and sat back.

After confirming the news, Chen Bin walked out of his tent in a fur cloak, but was shocked by the cold morning wind, and shivered on the spot.

In fact, he realized immediately that he had caused a catastrophe.

But now, he had to force himself to calm down, analyze the situation, think about strategies, and evaluate these strategies.

First, the situation is already evident.

This is a question of blunders, Zhou Taishou is talking nonsense to avoid the front line, he Chen Sima also guessed that the other party is talking nonsense, but it is this kind of self-righteous "clearness" that conceals the real danger - Chu Long The Dengzhou reinforcements of the army really came from the sea.

This also coincided with why Bai Sanniang, who was still here in Ban County during the Chinese New Year, disappeared after the war started. She had no reason to leave—unless she hurried back to recruit reinforcements.

But these are all indifferent, and there are two real dangers now.

One is that after Bai Yousi and the Dengzhou Army defeat the Youzhou Army, they will rush to the main battlefield in a short time, which will greatly increase the strength of the Dragon Army in a short time, and will make the already unstoppable retreat The attack fell into the point of futility, and even a little dangerous.

As for the Qu Tuda Department, purely in terms of distance and time, even if they can regain another city, it will be a matter of the future, but there are many variables in the future.

This is a danger for the overall situation. In the next two days, the military operations of the Hejian Camp will enter an obvious risk period.

Another point is his personal danger, Chen Bin.

Why was he so frightened that he lost his composure just now?Actually self-explanatory.What does the big picture matter to him?Does he care about a remnant of the Chen Dynasty?But the problem is that this matter is his own huge responsibility. Xue Changxiong really expressed his importance to the possibility of Dengzhou reinforcements, and he scolded him, Chen Bin, the supervisor of the army, for his dereliction of duty in this matter. .

Therefore, once the news came, General Xue would probably take his anger out on him.

Even further, if the military suffers another setback for this matter, especially if Don't move the side of the army and cause huge losses for this, which directly affects the victory or defeat, who will be responsible?
There are only three people involved in the plan of Don't move the side teacher. Cao Shancheng is the speaker, Xue Changxiong is the leader, and he is the planner, and he can't run away from others.

However, the root cause of the matter was my dereliction of duty!So, what will Xue Changxiong do with himself?

What will happen to Zhou Taishou, who is obviously much less guilty than himself?

"I killed him with my own hands!"

In the early morning mist, when Chen Bin thought of this sentence, he didn't tremble anymore, because he repeated the emotional path of the previous two days - fear followed by shame.

Great fear, resulting in great shame.

After pausing for a while, he suddenly got up and led a horse, and went straight to Xue Changxiong's camp.

When he arrived at the camp, he was unimpeded from the gate of the camp. He was allowed to go straight to Xue Changxiong's tent of the Chinese army. He is directly in charge of general affairs and secrets in the camp, and is the actual immediate boss of many people here.

After entering the big tent, sure enough, several confidential officers on duty were dozing off at their desks beside the brazier. Chen Bin hesitated for a moment, walked over, and knocked the head of the chief on the forehead.

The leading officer woke up and saw that it was Chen Bin. He got up in a panic and kicked several subordinates awake before saluting.

"Everyone come to the side tent." Chen Bin said in a low voice with his hands behind his back. "Don't disturb the master."

The few officers were apprehensive, so they could only bite the bullet and follow them out, but they didn't notice at all that the usually steady posture of the overseer Sima's hands and feet trembled slightly.

Turning to the side tent, Chen Bin asked seriously: "Where do you think Wang Fubei is now?"

"It's hard to say, but I'm sure I haven't been to Leling." For some reason, the leading officer heaved a sigh of relief, suppressing the urge to yawn in front of the military supervisor Sima, and trying to summon up his energy to answer. "The distance between Leling and here is too embarrassing, and it is difficult to calculate the itinerary without luggage. If you have to say, pack lightly, one day is too short, and two days is a bit longer... If I were General Wang, I would have traveled thirty or forty yesterday. I stopped in the middle of the road, and then I will work harder today, walk more, and then go to Leling in the evening."

"What about the defenders of Leling?" Chen Bin asked coldly and reminded.

"Maybe he hasn't set off yet." The subordinate officer felt more and more puzzled, but still answered seriously. "Shouldn't Leling wait for General Wang to arrive before leaving?"

Chen Bin nodded, and asked again: "Master Zhou came from Wudi and said he was going to arrive here at noon today. Where do you think he should be now?"

"Nine times out of ten, I collided with General Wang Fubei." The leading officer blurted out.

"That's right." Chen Bin sighed. "It's like this. There is a temporary matter in Bohai. I have already discussed with the general manager in the back account. I want to ask General Wang Fubei to turn to Yangxin to join the Youzhou Army. At the same time, I want to transfer the soldiers of Bohai County and the defenders of Leling to listen to Wang Fu. General Bei commanded and went south together, and there is another one that you all know, to punish Zhou Taishou... It's still early, and the chief has already gone to sleep. Let's try not to disturb, and finish a few documents here. !"

All the confidential officers came to their senses.

"You are the one who mobilizes the county soldiers, and you are the one who asks General Leling Han to temporarily obey the command and dispatch of General Wang Fubei. You have to be strict in tone." Seeing this, Chen Bin formally ordered. "And you, you come to write to ask General Wang Fubei to take down Mr. Zhou and hand it over to me... Remember, this matter is a military secret, and it must not be leaked in the slightest."

"Understood!" The officers on duty who were pointed out nodded one after another.

A few people immediately poured hot water into the side tent to melt the ink, and used paper and pens on the spot. The officers wrote three copies of the confidential documents, and Chen Bin himself wrote one...all of them are used to documents, sketching After that, those people offered the documents to Chen Bin for review.

"Yes." After reading it, Chen Bin nodded slightly, then got up and continued to give instructions. "Be quiet, follow me back to the big tent, and use the seal to get the tiger talisman."

Without thinking, the officers immediately turned back with their followers.

When he returned to the camp, Chen Bin acted grandiosely, and took the big seal on the commander's case in public, and gave several documents their own seals, and then put them one by one into the leather pouches, and let only the leading officer hold them, and then personally stood aside. From the hanging bag, a simple general-purpose troop dispatching tiger amulet, which was used by Zhong Lang in the Hejian camp, was taken out, and it was also put into a small leather bag.

Then, he walked out of the tent.

A group of confidential officers directly under Xue Changxiong sent them out again, and someone else took the initiative to lead the horse over and walked to the gate of the camp. Only then did Chen Sima take the document bag and tiger charm leather bag from the leading officer. : "Remember, if there is a military meeting in the morning and I don't have time to go back, the general manager doesn't ask you and don't worry about it. If you ask me, there are many people around, so just tell him that I went to pick up Mr. Zhou personally. Of course you'll know what's going on."

After speaking, he got on his horse and went back to the base camp.

The confidential officers watched their superiors leave and disappeared into the early morning mist before turning back.

After walking a few steps, the leading officer suddenly shook his head, showing doubts: "Chen Sima is not right today."

Everyone was surprised.

"He didn't shoot the case, but tapped my head to wake me up." The officer explained.

The rest of the people laughed individually, and one of them was even more serious: "This is a gesture of intimacy. Deputy Captain Yu is about to be promoted."

The crowd laughed even more, and the deputy Wei Wenshu also laughed, and they went back together. When they got back to the tent, they didn't dare to make a sound. In addition to the cold weather, they became dizzy again.

On the other side, when Chen Bin returned to the camp, he asked someone to call out Zhang Gongshen, took a few horses, and went downstream along the Mamian River together.

Although Zhang Gongshen wondered why the other party didn't bring an entourage, but the difference in status was there, and he couldn't do anything if the other party didn't tell him.

The two masters of cultivation galloped lightly and changed horses in turn. Before the mist cleared, they saw a temporary army camp by the roadside from a distance. They went forward to check, and it turned out to be Wang Fubei's troops.

Wang Fubei's troops were having breakfast at this time, when they heard that Chen Sima had arrived in person, the chief general Wang Fubei didn't dare to neglect, so he hurried out to greet him.

After seeing Wang Fubei, Chen Bin even asked directly inside the gate:
"Is Governor Zhou here?"

"Yes." Wang Fubei was taken aback for a moment, and immediately answered.

Chen Bin didn't say much, and found a document in person and handed it to the other party: "Look at it first, don't let him run away... He may be punished."

Wang Fubei was baffled, but he nodded immediately after reading the documents in the seal of the General Manager, turned around and gave instructions to his confidants.

Immediately, Chen Bin stretched out his hand, but pointed to Zhang Gongshen and said, "Let's go in. Officer Zhang just dropped by and told General Wang about Yangxin's military situation."

Even though Zhang Gongshen was always cautious, he couldn't help but "wake up" at this time, and immediately explained to Wang Fubei, walked into the tent of the Chinese army, and just finished speaking.

After Wang Fubei listened to the narration, he "woke up" to why Zhou Taishou was taken, but at the same time he became panicked and stood still in the tent of the Chinese army.

"There is another document." Chen Bin continued to take out a stamped document, and at the same time took out the tiger talisman with the rank of dispatching Zhonglang and handed it over. "The general manager has an order. The bandit army must have taken Yangxin in a hurry yesterday. The soldiers are exhausted and the city is empty, so he wants you to quickly go south and capture Yangxin City while the bandit army is scattered and chasing the Youzhou army."

Wang Fubei took the document and the tiger talisman, and just opened it, he could hear the other party's words, but it was like falling into an ice cave, after a long while, he asked a word: "Does the general want me to die?"

This is the truth... The Youzhou Army's 2000 soldiers were defeated in half a night, and Wang Fubei's army itself was a force that had lost a lot in the previous battle, with only more than [-] people to fight. What odds are there?
Zhang Gongshen was a kind person, so he couldn't help but sighed on the spot.

And together with him, they also firmly believe in this military order.

He knows a thing or two about Xue Changxiong's temperament these days, so in a hurry, he angered Lord Zhou of Bohai Sea, and let the miscellaneous army with a subtle position take a gamble, isn't it quite reasonable?
If you lose the bet, there are only two thousand soldiers, if you win the bet, the situation cannot be saved.

Chen Bin was expressionless: "Look at the document, the chief is just because you are in this position and it is convenient for you to march. How can you be sincere to force you to die? It is me who was angered like Zhou Fujun last night because I was in charge of military affairs. I also want to go to Yangxin with Your Excellency... You are not the only one who is sent to death?"

Wang Fubei flipped through it quickly, and sure enough it was written like this on the document, and then he was completely powerless, and finally almost cried: "What can I do?"

"Lieutenant Zhang and others stay away first." Chen Bin was still calm, he just waved his hand to drive everyone away, and then he took a step forward when there were only two people in the Chinese army tent, and bowed his head to speak earnestly. "General Wang, I have a suggestion now... Listen to it. If you agree, we will do it. If you disagree, I will not admit one-sided words after the fact."

Wang Fubei quickly threw down the document and the tiger talisman, held the opponent's hand and said: "Please teach me Chen Sima."

"It's very simple. I am Nan Chen Yu Nie, and you are Hebei Haoqiang. We worked hard for Director Xue, but he treated us like this over and over again...Why should we hang ourselves from a tree?" Chen Bin raised his head, speaking more earnest. "The current situation is that the Youzhou Army has dispersed, and the Dengzhou reinforcements have arrived. This battle is likely to be won by the Dragon Army, and there must be a place for the Dragon Army to gain a foothold in Hebei in the future; One of my old acquaintances happened to be among the reinforcements of the Dragon Army in the direction of Yangxin... That being the case, you bring the troops, and I take Mr. Zhou, and we pretend to obey the military order and march south, and use these two as a reliance to surrender when we go to the place. Isn’t it a relief to dethrone the Dragon Army? As for the family members, you can now send some people to the clan to send a message, let them go south regardless of everything, and then hide behind the salt mountain.”

When Wang Fubei heard the first two sentences, he already guessed what the other party meant, and was shocked for a while, but after hearing the narration later, he knew the pros and cons, and knew the feasibility, but he was also completely moved.

After Chen Bin finished speaking, he just looked at the other party's expression and waited quietly.

"Okay!" After a few breaths, Wang Fubei suddenly gritted his teeth and agreed. "He is not benevolent, we are not righteous, we voted for the Dragon Gang together! Chen Sima will be the leader, and I will be the leader, as if being slaughtered here!"

Chen Bin felt relieved. If the other party refused to agree, he would have to flee to the opposite side alone. How could he be so solemn as to bring Wang Fubei's army along with a Bohai prefect?
This is all money!
Now that the two had decided, they didn't hesitate any longer. Wang Fubei secretly sent the clan's children to make contact with his family in the north, and asked the clan to go south to Yanshan to escape. At the same time, he summoned his subordinates to issue a military order, and went directly to the southeast.

The subordinates didn't know that Yangxin in the southeast had been defeated, so naturally they had nothing to say, but Zhang Gongshen, he really had a conscience, he knew the "insider situation", he actually gritted his teeth and wanted to follow.

Of course, so far, Chen Bin's plan is too perfect, so the accident will always come in time when it should come.

Marching to noon, a group of defeated soldiers from Youzhou suddenly came up ahead and told Wang and Chen that after the dragon thieves from Yangxin City gathered in the morning, they had already taken advantage of the trend to "retreat" to Ban County University in the west along Douzigang. battalion gone.

In other words, Yangxin City is probably really empty at this time.

Wang Fubei can completely "follow the military order" and go to Yangxin City with dignity, instead of rebelling.

For a moment, Wang Fubei even felt a little moved by Xue Changxiong's "knowledge of soldiers".

"Chen Sima." Sure enough, after hesitating for a moment, Wang Fubei invited Chen Bin to the side of the road, and immediately whispered. "Now that things are up to now, aren't we lucky to have three brilliance and four royals come to help us, why don't we just pretend that we didn't have that sentence in the morning?"

"General Wang."

Chen Bin thought for a while, and immediately took the other party's hand, still sincere. "Let me tell you something, don't be angry... In fact, I forged all the military orders. I can't go back no matter what, I can only surrender to the Dragon Army; but you should have gone to Leling, but you took it with you." The army followed me here, and let the family abandon their residences and go to Yanshan to escape. This matter cannot be concealed. Do you think Xue Changxiong will be able to accommodate you again? Therefore, you will not be able to go back either. Let's grit our teeth and turn to Banxian camp together!"

Wang Fubei was dumbfounded, unable to refute.

And Chen Bin had already leaped out and ordered in public: "The general commander's order is to pursue this bandit army... We will take advantage of the situation and go back to the front line through Pingchang, and stationed at the bottom of the earth mountain!"

The sergeants around heard the words, complained to each other, and only went to see Wang Fubei.

Fortunately, Wang Fubei came from a powerful background, and most of his troops were his own children, who always kept their promises. Therefore, with a reluctant nod, the troops turned around and headed west amidst complaints.

After all, Wang Fubei had long been excluded in the Hejian camp because he didn't know how to flatter, and later became a scapegoat after the First World War in Leling, and he was resentful and resentful.

And Chen Bin chose to find this General Wang not only because the other party happened to be in this delicate position.

Before evening, this hungry army first came to the rear of Pingchang County, which was controlled by the Chulong army, and then took advantage of the situation to stop.

Immediately, Wang Fubei announced his decision, began to clean up the diehards in the army, and sent envoys to Pingchang City.

Besides, in fact, since noon, many scattered Youzhou soldiers went around and returned to the Mamianhe official army camp.It's just that Chen Bin was supposed to be in charge of collecting military information, so when Murong Zhengyan finally realized the problem, asked about the military information in person, and hurriedly came to report with Xue Changxiong, it was already late in the afternoon.

Then, almost at the same moment when Wang Fubei sent a surrender messenger to Pingchang City, Xue Changxiong, who hastily convened a military meeting in panic, suddenly realized that Chen Bin was not there, and couldn't help asking about his whereabouts: "Where is Chen Sima?" ?”

Regarding this, a deputy lieutenant surnamed Yu who was in charge of confidential documents flashed out immediately, and replied respectfully: "Report to the manager, Chen Sima went to pick up Lord Zhou of Bohai early in the morning."

At that moment, General Xue, who had no time to think about it, nodded instinctively.

(End of this chapter)