Delong

When the first half of the night was about to pass, with Xiong Bonan, Xu Shiren, Shan Tonghai, Wang Shuyong, Niu Da and others "meeting" in turn, at the suggestion of Xie Minghe, the two city officials agreed in principle to send some drinks to the city , Torches and the like are even used as rewards for the army.

But the effect is not very good, because the troops in the city have been in a state of panic. In the dark night, they expressed obvious resistance and disregard for the so-called military orders brought by the two senior officers, especially the most critical Cangcheng and the barracks. Opted to close the door.

Zhu Longjun had no choice but to do it himself. He took some spare wood piles and fire starters from the top of the city, and managed to ignite a few fires. It was impossible to light them. As the sky became darker and darker, the soldiers gradually became tired. As the singing faded, many soldiers of the Dragon Army who came to help bumped into the tight camp, causing unnecessary casualties. Fortunately, there were more and more experts in the Dragon Army who were able to take care of the situation.

But it seems that precisely because of this, the official army decided not to wait any longer. "Let's go, while the thief army is the most exhausted at this time!"

Unexpectedly, it was Li Twelve who suggested it on his own initiative. Even if this guy had just said "flexible and stretchable", it also attracted the rest of the people to look at it in surprise.

"Don't look at me like that." Although he didn't dare to raise the flames, the practitioners could barely see the faces of the people. Li Qingchen only sighed, and then explained seriously. "I wanted to fight before, because I thought there was still a fight The main reason is that I feel that only two big officials in the city have been captured, and the soldiers and horses in the city must still care about it. They may not be able to cooperate with the city. In addition, it is dark, they have no place to stand, but we have the city. Not to mention that the bandit army directly inserts between the walls, and more and more people gather, and if they don't leave, not to mention that the dragon bandits will inevitably attack in large numbers at dawn, and immediately, tired of watching the singing, these The masters gather together, maybe they can penetrate another wave of camps, boost morale, come down again and again, but they can’t kill, what should we do if our army collapses immediately? It’s better to withdraw the troops on our own while we are in a bit of shape.”

After saying these words, several generals around him breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's okay to withdraw, but there are a few things that need to be clarified." I don't know if it was because of a concert, Qu Tuda was obviously a little depressed, and his face was ugly, but he still tried his best to make an announcement. "One is that, as Li Twelve Lang said, the opponent is really strong, has many generals, and is more powerful than us, and cannot fight or drag on; the other is that the thieves have pinched Liaocheng. , we need to consider Mr. Yuanfu and Ambassador Lu.”

The people around were speechless. It was clear that their thoughts on defeating Long Jun were all on this big stuffed bun in Liaocheng, and they threw the mouse in the opposite direction, so they gave their own people a chance to escape.
But now is not the time to worry about this, General Qu Tu is also difficult, especially after tonight, it is probably even more difficult!
"Let's withdraw the troops. We will worry about today's hatred for another day." Seeing that no one spoke anymore, Qu Tuda continued to speak up. "Just as I said before, pass the order down layer by layer and tell them to start from the village. Go through the back door and watch the stars. If not, go to the south and walk along the embankment. After dawn, they all gather along the embankment.”…

"It has to be like this." Qin Bao also just wanted to leave quickly.Qu Tuda nodded again, then waved his hand as a signal.Everyone got a clear military order and turned around.

But at this time, Captain Huang Duwei of Wei Jun walked a few dozen steps, but in the twilight, he obviously felt a little emotional: "The army withdraws at night, although it is a plain, although it is common for the army to gather and disperse. This withdrawal, but I don't know what to do How much will you lose?"

The rest of the people could only pretend not to hear their figures flashing in the dark night.Why did you send troops this time?
Save Qinghe, save that Lord Cao.What now?

Qinghe is doomed to be hopeless, Mr. Cao's life is unknown, and then he lost a Liaocheng, a Wuyang Yuanfu and Yecheng Ambassador Lu, and then it is difficult to withdraw the troops, so how do you care about how much you lost?

"Third brother, the officials and thieves have begun to withdraw." About two quarters of an hour later, as the movement in the camp could not be concealed, Zhou Xingfan came over to report immediately. "Do you want to move?"

"You can move." Zhang Xing, who was sitting under the banner and looking up at the starry sky, came back to his senses, frankly

Make a speech. "Organize the troops to enter the village, tear down the fences and set fire to them, then rest the large troops, and then organize a group of elites to pursue them, along the river! But you don't want to go"

"Why?" Xiao Zhou heard it properly in the front, but was puzzled in the back.

"You don't have Ningdan. If you met Qin Bao today, you would have died long ago. What's more, he is returning to his master now and will fight desperately, so just let Ningdan chase after him." Zhang Xing obviously knew that there would be more battles today. detail. "As for your thoughts. If you don't survive, how can you take revenge? If you really want to, focus on your cultivation."

Zhou Xingfan stopped talking.

In this way, the military order was conveyed from Chen Bin.

After a while, following the clearing of the way by the leaders of Ningdan, the Chulong army began to try to enter the camp, and quickly obtained fuel, built a fire, and then large troops swarmed in.

When the camp was under control, another eight Ningdan soldiers were assigned to the army, each leading two or three hundred men, some riding and some walking, and carrying some torches, and they launched a pursuit.

But these didn't have much to do with Zhang Xing, he didn't go after him personally, nor rejected Xie Minghe's invitation from the city, but just slept in the camp.

Both sides have no fighting spirit, and this battle seems to be ending like this.

However, the matter of war can never develop according to the commander's vision. Even if the commanders of both sides have the same vision, there will always be some small waves.

"what happened?"

In the early morning, Zhang Xing, who had only slept by the fire outside the tent for half the night, turned over and sat up in a daze, and then asked in surprise—it was Xiong Bonan, who should be the supreme commander in charge of the pursuit, but when the troops did not turn back The situation appeared here.

"There is something that needs to be decided by the leader. I'm the fastest, and I'm back first." Xiong Bo Nan replied seriously. "Liu Heimei and Lu Dayue intercepted a large group of officials and thieves by the river, Wang Shuyong and Niu Da caught up from behind, and they have already suppressed them. There should be a Ningdan among them."

Zhang Xing opened his eyes, but immediately became a little dazed: "Liu Heimi and Lu Dayue. What's going on?"

Xiong Bonan immediately realized that the reason why Zhang Xing woke up immediately was because he heard that a Ningdan was intercepted, and thought it might be Qin Bao, but he was still confused about the situation, so he suppressed his temper and explained seriously:…

"Liu Heimei was after the battle yesterday afternoon. His troops were on the left flank of the army formation. After being broken by the officers and soldiers, they happened to be cut off from the west. Baiqi gathered to the west and waited in advance at an intersection of the official road in the west; Dalu was a navy, originally to prevent Liaocheng from escaping from the waterway, and before joining the battle yesterday, he received a single-pass navy order, telling him to pay attention to the officer. The army fled westward along the river embankment in the south. After dawn in the morning, the whereabouts of the officers and soldiers and our pursuers were revealed. One of the two groups approached the embankment, and the other landed from the embankment. They joined forces on the official road next to the river. Already, just in time to intercept a batch of chasing soldiers.”

Zhang Xing nodded, and asked seriously, "About how many people?" "Two to three thousand."

"Good enough. Who is that Ning Dan?"

"I don't know, but maybe it's not Qin Bao. Ordinary condensed pills can't stop Qin Bao with three or four. But this person lost his fighting spirit when he met Wang Shuyong and Niu Da. But it's hard to say. It might be Qin Bao. After shooting that arrow, he may have figured it out, because he quickly begged for surrender after being besieged.”

Zhang Xing was silent for a while, and then came to ask: "It doesn't matter to him, King Xiong Tianwang, what do you mean?"

"That person wants to meet you in person. Niu Da and the others in front want to ask, do you want to be treated without lottery?" Xiong Bonan explained the whole story. "The last time I stopped the river in Qingzhang When he was a Zhonglang general in Jian Daying, Chief Feng was the guarantor, so he didn’t smoke.”

Things are still different.

Zhang Xing knew it well, that time the two sides encountered each other again after a few days of separation after the battle, and the other side fought for the river and lost the opportunity to cross the river and then chose to surrender. This time, it was intercepted during the pursuit. A cold fight.

"Does the Heavenly King know what I was thinking just now?" At this point, Zhang Xing suddenly sneered and looked at the other party seriously.

"I just thought, if Qin Bao's fate is unlucky and he gets a death lottery, what should I write when I write to his wife Yue Niang? Let me see with my own eyes how his luck is, just let me give up, if it is someone else, immediately draw it on the spot, and just tell me the result directly.” Zhang Xing said, turned over and lay down in the pit, unexpectedly It is to continue to catch up on sleep.

Xiong Bonan thought for a while and looked at the other person's back, then rose into the air and headed west.

In the morning, the relevant news came back, but the result was a bit lamentable—because of the outstanding performance of Liu Heimei and Lu Dayue, this pursuit was a great success, and thousands of prisoners were actually obtained, but they have already The captain of Weijun and Huang Haichen, the master of condensing alchemy, who surrendered, unexpectedly won the death lottery in the ensuing ten draws!

With this result, it is said that the seven or eight alchemy masters present were a little confused, but after Huang Haichen tried to escape, he was executed in public by the general judge of the Dragon Gang and the purple-faced king Xiong Bonan.

And Zhang Dalongtou, who was located in the west camp of Liaocheng City, even just responded after hearing the news, and didn't make any unnecessary expressions.There was an inexplicable shock up and down.

At noon, the situation gradually stabilized, the dethroning army began to clean up the battlefield, and the follow-up troops began to take over Liaocheng—different from the fugitive army, because there was a secret agreement with Yuan Baocun, and last night Yuan Baocun and Lu Daobin maintained their relationship. Some kind of decency, Liaocheng's troops also maintained restraint, so there was no massacre here. …

The two sides are obviously a city handed over in a semi-peaceful way.

At this time, Xie Minghe also sent someone to invite Zhang Xing to the city to have a face-to-face talk with Yuan Baocun and Lu Daobin.There must be a talk, but Zhang Xing just pushed and procrastinated, saying that he was not prepared enough.

Moreover, he really studied the guard of honor, but he summoned all the leaders brought by the Qinghe raid this time, and asked Wang Xiongdan and Jia Runshi to prepare the guard of honor, selected and captured the prisoners, and even the others The head of Huang Haichen, who had just died, was not forgotten either.

From what it looks like, there is really going to be a ceremony of entering and exiting the city.

Everyone was a little puzzled at first, after all, they had been with this leader for a long time, and they knew some of his temper. They just felt that this kind of behavior was not Zhang Dalongtou's usual hobby. But soon, in the afternoon, he rode from the east The face was long overdue, but the generals suddenly realized.

Without him, Wei Xuanding, the head of the Dethrone Dragon Gang, has arrived. "Talk, you can talk."

Zhang Xing explained this in the camp. "In short, let him recognize the reality. Wei Gong can talk, I just sit outside the city."

Why didn't Chief Wei know about Zhang Dalong's kindness?He also nodded in a hurry, only saying that his family had already made preparations, and he looked confident.

Zhang Xing stopped talking, just waved his hand, and the many masters and leaders in the gang who had worked hard all night yesterday cheered up again, gathered soldiers and horses, captured and captured prisoners, set up a guard of honor, and surrounded Chief Wei into the city .

It is necessary to give Chief Wei a strong momentum.

In this way, on the afternoon of the first day of summer, Wei Xuanding, who was dressed in commoner clothes, returned to Wuyang County, Hebei Province, where he had always dreamed of, entered Liaocheng, and met the old master Yuan Baocun.

Frankly speaking, before Taoist Wei entered the city gate, he had a strong desire to care about his overall situation and consequences, and I will talk about it when I feel better today.

Zhang Xing was also obviously indulging him, and even fueling the flames.

However, when he saw Yuan Baocun standing inside the city gate, he waited for him carefully staring at his bloodshot eyes, and then he was half hesitant and half embarrassed when he saw him. Rao Chief Wei had countless ideas before. , I can't help but feel funny at this time.

So, he paused on the horse, then got off the horse, saluted far and wide, then stretched out his hand with a smile, and said:
"Yuan Gong, don't come here without any harm."

With that attitude, the leaders in the back, including Wang Shuyong, who knew the other party's background and previous sharp personality, were almost dumbfounded.

"Wei Weigong!"

Compared to Wei Xuanding, Yuan Baocun was obviously at a loss. He didn't know whether to salute or to shake hands for a while, but he blushed and yelled.

I can't shout enough.

Wei Xuanding, on the other hand, still stepped forward calmly, took the opponent's hands, and then sincerely sighed behind the door: "After a farewell for three years, Yuan Gong still has the same style."

Yuan Baocun was also a bit sober at this time, he knew that the other party's temperament had slipped again this time, and he thought he would suffer humiliation, but he couldn't help but blushed:

"What about the same demeanor? It is obviously a reversal of demeanor. That day in Wuyang, when you were poor, I lived on top of it, and often saw you lose your temper, but I was always calm. At that time, I was still secretly self-sufficient. I only thought of my own dignity Excellence, Your Excellency has a fierce temper. But today the situation is reversed. I am a prisoner, and the king is the master, but I behaved badly. Your Excellency is arrogant. Wei Gong, tell me, this so-called demeanor, is it a person’s own demeanor or the current situation and official position? How about style?"...

Wei Xuanding was silent for a moment, then seriously nodded: "Yuangong is right. At that time, I also thought that I had great ambitions and great talents, but I couldn't let it go. I also thought it was ridiculous. In the end, we are all just mortals, and the chaotic world is like a tide. .” Yuan Baocun nodded heavily.

Wei Xuanding then turned around and greeted Xiong Bonan: "Heavenly King, I have been friends with Yuangong for many years, we can talk about everything thoroughly, let everyone go away, except for the gifts I brought, the rest should be packed up."

Xiong Bonan found it interesting, so he nodded and left, but when he turned around and saw the gift brought by Wei Xuanding, he was a little speechless.

In this way, the rest of the people dispersed and got busy. Wei Xuanding and Yuan Baocun went up to the city wall hand in hand, and they shook hands and talked on the city facing the Nanlai River. They first told some old stories, then some experiences, and finally chatted After all, it is inevitable to face reality.

"Yuan Gong, look at this spring and summer, the fields are full of seedlings. Although there is a little mess due to the First World War, if we can quickly clean up, we can still have a good result." Wei Xuanding pointed to the battlefield in front of him, The field where the camp lives, a little reminder. "Our Zhulong Gang won the battle at the beginning of the year, but we focused on restraining ourselves, just for the sake of stable spring farming in southern Hebei, and it finally showed up?"

Of course Yuan Baocun knew what the other party meant, but he still couldn't help but responded earnestly: "Wei Gong, let me say something more, it is of course very important to have a season of millet seedlings and spring plowing at the right time, but is this enough? Now that summer is here, Is it necessary to prevent droughts and floods, and weeding and pest removal during the day? Who can say what will happen in the future? Where will there be corn in the urn?"

"Yuan Gong is right." Unexpectedly, Wei Xuanding did not directly refute. "Don't say that the summer is hard, it means that the weather will be good for one year, and it will be good for next year?"

Yuan Baocun was slightly taken aback.

"But Duke Yuan, why don't you plow the fields diligently because of this?" Wei Xuanding suddenly changed the subject. "Because there may be droughts and floods in summer, shouldn't spring be cleaned up? Or is it wrong to say that the cultivation in spring is not right? Let me say that things have been done in a down-to-earth manner, and even if there is no result for some reason, it should not be said that people are in vain. It’s hard work, or if you don’t recognize that the account is right, it’s right!” Yuan Baocun remained silent.

"I prepared a gift for Yuan Gong." Daoist Wei didn't care when he saw this, but turned around and greeted him.

After a while, while Yuan Baocun was stunned, someone brought up a dead body that was wrapped in a white cloth but could not conceal the smell.

"This is Qinghe Cao Shancheng's corpse." Wei Xuanding still had his arm around him, and pointed to the corpse with the other hand. "He didn't die in battle, but was scolded to death by Zhang Longtou! The article scolding him is also in my arms."

As he spoke, Chief Wei took out another piece of blood-stained paper from his bosom, and unfolded it in the hands of the slightly numb opponent: "Please take a look, Duke Yuan."

Yuan Baocun was grasped by the other party with one hand, and held half of the bloody Bulaji paper with the other hand. He obviously flinched, but he could only force himself: "Wei Gong is very different after all."

Then, he also looked down.

After reading it for a while, Fu sighed again against his will: "Good article, no wonder you scolded Mr. Cao to death."

"It's not a good article, but it wins in one hit." Wei Xuanding corrected. "Yuan Gong, Cao Shancheng is not corrupt, capable, and persistent. He is a talent in any way, but he is like a stubborn bull, and he uses his strength in the wrong direction. I only ask Yuan Gong a word, and the people of the world are mighty. swing, but...

Is it Wei? "

Yuan Baocun fell silent, then firmly shook his head: "No."

"That's it." Wei Daoshi sighed while holding the opponent's wrist. "I know where Duke Yuan is hesitating. As the former royal family, we have a high vision, and our dethroning the Dragon Gang seems to be arrogant, but in fact it has only been turbulent for two years, so we may not be able to have the last laugh, and we may even be defeated quickly in two more years. So what's the matter? What about the Dragon Gang, Yuan Gong will take a look at it slowly, but there is one thing that is clear, it is as natural as plowing the fields in spring, and there is no need to say more. That is, the people of the world do not belong to Wei. So no matter what , It is absolutely correct for us to fight against the violent Wei! And even Cao Shancheng, who is as tough as Cao Shancheng, knows this truth when he dies. .”

At this point, Taoist Wei let go of the hand holding the paper, and took hold of the other wrist, his words became more and more earnest: "Yuan Gong, spring is plowing!"

Yuan Baocun was pinched by both wrists, and couldn't help releasing his strength. He saw the paper notice being rolled by the wind, flying directly from the top of the city, and rolled towards the messy fields in front of him. :

"What Wei Gong said is very true, spring is plowing! But Wuyang County is in my hands, and there will never be any truth in serving Wei Wei!" Wei Xuanding laughed on the spot: "So, we can be regarded as continuing our relationship. Let’s forget about this spring event when we depose the Dragon Gang.”

Yuan Baocun smiled wryly, but looked at his wrist and asked: "The plowing in spring is naturally the most reasonable saying, but since I have promised, let me ask one more question, Xuan Ding, who have you learned these methods from in the past two years? It's another handshake. It's a corpse again, it's just pressing on every step of the way, and it doesn't take a breath with anyone."

Wei Xuanding glanced at the dilapidated barracks in the west of Liaocheng, blinked his eyelids, and spoke in a crisp and unrestrained manner: "It's all about crossing the river barefoot that day, and I learned from one incident."

Yuan Baocun was greatly moved.

"The first day of the new year: The snake lies in the mud, neither male nor female. It will never be given."

On the west side of Liaocheng, two middle-aged men from the Yuan and Wei dynasties were shaking hands and chatting happily. On the side of the east side of Liaocheng, Ambassador Lu and Xie Minghe were also having fun.

"What do you mean?" Xie Minghe looked at the wooden sticks under his feet, puzzled.

"Snakes lie in the mud, whether you are a king or not." Lu Daobin leaned over to pick up his precious wooden stick, and replied with a smile. "Aren't you measuring the situation? Isn't that accurate?"

Xie Minghe thought for a while, then nodded heavily, "Quite! Your hexagram is really accurate! The biggest problem in the current situation is whether you are king or not!"

Lu Daobin was very pleased with himself.

PS: Thank you Xiong (Bull) for your reward.