This prince is going to heaven

Chapter 720 Fire
Jinling City.

Seeing the Southern Chu army retreat, Han Qi and Gao Yun on the city wall breathed a sigh of relief. With the Yangzhou tragedy ahead, how could the pressure on their shoulders be less?
Seeing the Chu army retreating now, they naturally let go of the big stone in their hearts.

While the two were chatting, a small pawn hurried over and saluted the two of them, then presented a letter with both hands, bowed his head and said: "To the Deputy Commander and Your Excellency Governor, Your Highness Prince Jing is writing."

Han Qi and Gao Yun glanced at each other, then took the letter and opened it, a trace of surprise appeared on their faces at the same time.

I only heard Han Qi shouting to the soldiers around him: "Get the map!"

At that time, the two soldiers jointly unfolded a four-foot-square map. The two stared at the map for a while, only to see Han Qi pointing to a certain place on the map, and said, "Here it is!"

Gao Yun nodded with a serious face, and said: "If the Chu army withdraws, Bajiaopo is the closest road. If you go from there, it will undoubtedly lengthen the marching time, which is not good for them."

Han Qi frowned, and said: "Your Highness said in the letter that they will ambush the Chu army there, and let me lead the army to rush to help. Seeing him like this, I'm afraid he wants to eat this army in one bite. You What do you think?"

Gao Yun shook his head: "You are the deputy commander of the army, so what to do is naturally up to you."

Han Qi sighed, and said: "His Royal Highness's way of acting is too radical. He has only [-] troops, and the Southern Chu army has [-] troops. Ambush, but how can we win with such a huge disparity of troops? The Chu army has left for an hour, and our departure is already a big step too late. If His Highness is defeated too quickly, we will not be able to join forces with them to deal with this situation. The Chu army formed a siege, Your Highness, this is too radical!"

A look of helplessness suddenly appeared on Han Qi's face, and he could vaguely feel a trace of anger. To be honest, he did not agree with Wen Ruyan's actions. This war with Nanchu should be everything. Seek stability. After all, Da Zhou’s military strength at this time is far behind that of Southern Chu. In his opinion, defending the city is the safest strategy. Taking the initiative to fight the enemy is tantamount to attacking the enemy with your own weaknesses. It is unwise.

He really couldn't understand why the always wise Prince Jing would make such an unwise move.

Could it be that because Yangzhou City was broken, he felt resentful and couldn't wait to get revenge?

Alas, you are still young after all!

Gao Yun and Han Qi have known each other for a long time and naturally understand his worries, but Han Qi has no confidence in Wen Ruyan, but Gao Yun does. Wasn't he the first to discover this when Wen Ruyan was a foolish prince? His Highness Prince Jing, who has been praised by the world, has always been hiding his clumsiness?

Needless to say, how powerful is a person who can hide his clumsiness for more than ten years without being discovered, and who has been slandered by the world for more than ten years but doesn't care?
So he had great confidence in Wen Ruyan.

It's just that Han Qi is looking bored at the moment, so he has no choice but to say: "In any case, the safety of His Highness is the most important thing, so we must listen to him and lead the army to rescue Bajiao as quickly as possible." slope."

Han Qi sighed again, and shouted directly to the messenger: "Send our military order, the army will move out, and hurry to Bajiaopo!"

"Yes!"

Octagonal slope.

When the Southern Chu army arrived here, the leading general frowned suddenly, raised his hand, and the army stopped immediately.

The lieutenant at the side came to him on horseback and asked, "General, why did you stop suddenly?"

The general frowned and looked at the dense forest ahead, his brows became deeper and deeper, and he said, "I always feel something is wrong."

"What's wrong?" The lieutenant general was puzzled, squinting his eyes and looking ahead carefully while sitting on the horseback.

"It seems a little too quiet in the dense forest. It is autumn at this time. Logically speaking, the birdsong in the forest should be quite loud. When we passed by here that day, it was not as quiet as it is today."

"Are you worried that there will be an ambush in the forest?"

The general nodded, and then directly directed to the soldiers around him: "Go to the front to find out."

"Yes."

After the soldiers left, the lieutenant general smiled and said: "Is the general overly worried? Now that the guards in Jinling City and the northern border have been removed from Da Zhou, the rest of the troops have gathered at Pingyang Pass, and Being pinned down by the commander, how could they have the strength to ambush us at this time?"

The general shook his head: "It's always right to be cautious."

Not long after, the soldier rode back and said straightly, "General Qi, there is nothing unusual ahead."

The chief general frowned and was about to speak, but was interrupted by the deputy general: "Okay general, don't be so cautious, the general has sent an order to get us back to the camp before dark, it's getting late now , if we delay, you and I are afraid that we will receive the forty army sticks."

The chief general thought for a moment before nodding, and ordered the army to move on.

Behind Bajiaopo.

Seeing the Southern Chu army marching in mightily, a sneer appeared on Sun Bufan's face.

Not long after, the sound of rolling stones sliding down the hillside accompanied by the screams of countless Chu soldiers came from inside.

As soon as the voice came, Sun Budong got on his horse and shouted loudly: "Sui Ben will kill you!"

Inside the octagonal slope.

As soon as Nanchu walked to the center, he saw countless rolling stones falling from the steep slope. The leader's expression changed drastically, and he drew out his long sword from his waist and shouted loudly: "Meet the enemy! Meet the enemy!"

In such a short period of half a stick of incense, I don’t know how many Chu troops died under the rolling stone. When the rolling stone fell, on the hillside, tens of thousands of Zhou soldiers rushed down shouting. It was hit by the ten thousand army from top to bottom.

The general of the Chu army was stunned. As soon as he organized an effective counterattack, he saw tens of thousands of Zhou soldiers rushing behind him. The Chu army was already too busy to take care of themselves at this time. Soldiers, while cautious, ordered to rush out of Bajiaopo.

After the Chu army hurried forward for another distance, they suddenly saw dust flying all over the sky at the end of the road ahead, and the earth trembled with the sound of horseshoes.

The general of Southern Chu's face turned pale immediately, how could he create such a scene without an army of [-] to [-]?At this moment, his army has been frightened out of courage, and its combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced. How can they still have the confidence to charge when they see the continuous stream of Zhou soldiers in front and rear?

"Into the jungle!"

This is the only way the Southern Chu general can think of now. He still has more than 7 troops under his command, but it is completely chaotic at the moment. Only when he enters the dense forest can he reorganize his formation and launch a counterattack.

At this moment, he almost knew that there were nearly [-] Zhou troops here, and now he would definitely lose completely in a short time if he confronted them head-on, but as long as he stabilized the morale of the army, it was not certain who would win this battle. !

The defeated Southern Chu army rushed into the dense forest in a panic. The Southern Chu commander thought the opportunity had come, but at this moment, the flaming arrows shot in like a torrential rain.

This incident happened in autumn, and there were many dead branches and rotten leaves in the dense forest. As soon as the arrows fell, the fire suddenly ignited.

The chief general of Nanchu's face was pale at this moment, and the hand holding the sword was trembling non-stop!

A continuous fire has ruined the lives of many Southern Chu soldiers!

When Han Qi and Gao Yun led the army to come, seeing this situation, his eyes widened and his mouth widened, his face was full of disbelief!

(End of this chapter)