Cangzhou beacon fire

Chapter 11
Fengshui City, in the south palace.

"Drag it out for me and chop it up!" Zhong Lin jumped up against the table and shouted furiously.

In front of him, Li Tong was seriously injured and dripping with blood. Even though he was very weak, he still insisted on kneeling on his knees without anyone's support. He didn't make any excuses for Zhong Lin's decision, but bowed his head guiltily.

Seeing that Zhong Lin wanted to kill Li Tong, Xia Houyin knelt down first and begged for mercy: "General, General Li's crime is not worthy of death, please forgive me!" The other generals also knelt down and begged for mercy.

At this time, Li Tong was bleeding profusely, and fell to the ground with a bang, and passed out. The soldiers kneeling beside him hurried up to help him.

"Call the military doctor quickly!" Xia Houyin shouted anxiously.

"Hold back! How can I be lenient?" Zhong Lin looked at Li Tong, who was being treated by a military doctor, and said calmly.

Several of the soldiers who came back with Li Tong were all scarred, and one of them pleaded on the ground: "No, no, General, General Li fought until his mounts were gone and he didn't back down. It's us Anyone who drags him away by force will be beheaded, behead us! General!"

"Yes, General, General Li Tong really didn't flinch, we took him away by force."

Xia Houyin took advantage of the situation and begged: "General, it is easy to get a thousand troops, but it is hard to find a good general. This is the time for employing people. I beg the general to spare Li Tong's life and give him a chance to make up for his mistakes." don't get up anymore.

"I beg the general to forgive me!" All the generals said in unison, and they all fell to the ground.

Zhong Lin inspected all the kneeling people in the battalion, and finally landed on Li Tong and the other soldiers. After a long time, he said, "If you retreat before the battle, I will sentence you to beheaded. Do you have any objections?"

The soldiers all fell down and said: "It is our fault to retreat before the battle, and it has nothing to do with General Li. As long as General Li is not killed, we have no objection."

Zhong Lin looked at them for a long time, and his eyes began to turn red. These are elite soldiers from Yue Kingdom, but military law is hard to break. He held back his tears and sighed: "Drag it on."

After the guards came in and took Li Tong's soldiers down, Zhong Lin said to the generals who were still kneeling, "Get up."

After all the generals got up, Zhong Lin slowly said: "Li Tong is exempt from death, but he cannot escape from living. He will be demoted to the next branch of counselor, and he will be punished with thirty military sticks."

Xia Houyin looked at Li Tong who was still in a coma, and said with a troubled expression: "General, Counselor Li's current physical condition, I'm afraid the ten army sticks will be gone."

"Then punish after the war is over."

Li Tong has been taken down for medical treatment, and all the generals have retreated, only Xia Houyin was left behind by Zhong Lin.

"General, the food and grass are all destroyed, so we have to figure out a countermeasure as soon as possible. There is only less than two months left in the city." Xia Houyin stepped forward and said with a worried face.

Zhong Lin sighed and said, "Qi Sheng deserves to be General Zuo of Sanyuan. I thought he would not be able to shrink from the last defeat. I didn't think he would do this. I was careless."

"Right now, we must quickly ask the capital for troops and food, otherwise the follow-up battle will not be able to start."

Zhong Lin nodded and said: "I'll draft the handwriting, let the king increase his troops to help food, and you send urgent soldiers back to the capital overnight."

"As ordered."

Within the territory of Sanyuan and outside Liuyu City, the Sanyuan army gathered to attack the bandits again.

At this time, a cavalry soldier on a white horse came galloping with billowing dust and smoke, he was a letter soldier from the capital of the king.

"General Yan's handwritten letter! General Fan Yi listens!" The white horse cavalry shouted from afar before they arrived.

Seeing this, Fan Yi waved his hand to order the army to stop, then got off his horse and signaled all the soldiers to kneel down to obey the order.

The white horse cavalry stopped in front of Fan Yi, quickly took out the handwriting and read aloud: "General Yan has orders, General Fan and his troops act according to the instructions on the attached page!"

Seeing that the cavalry had finished reading, Fan Yi took the handwriting and the attached pages from the cavalry with both hands in front of him: "Fan Yi accepts the order!"

Before leaving, the cavalry warned: "The general has an order, execute it immediately!" Then he turned around and left.

Fan Yi is fifty this year, with a square face, thick eyebrows and a straight nose, and a burly figure. As the right general of the Sanyuan Kingdom, he has few opponents with a long sword in his hand.

Everyone stood up and approached Fan Yi and asked, "General Fan, this is not like a general. He never cares about such details."

Fan Yi was also puzzled, Yan Yu has always been only in charge of the general strategy, and never interfered with the detailed deployment of the army, why did he send the attached page directly this time?

With doubts, Fan Yi sent all the generals away, opened the attached page sent by Yan Yu alone, looked at it carefully for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

"The whole army obeys the order and starts immediately!"

It has been more than a month since the last time the Sanyuan Army attacked grain.

Although the two armies continued to harass, no major war broke out.

Zhong Lin asked Zhao Yan, the king, for additional troops and supplies. Although the food and grass had been arranged early, the additional troops were delayed.

Zhong Lin had no choice but to send an urgent report to Yunshui City, ordering Zhong Yao to lead [-] cavalry from the new army to Jinxi for reinforcements.

Now that the war in West Jinxi is urgent, Zhong Yao is really annoyed by the monarch's refusal to send out troops from Zhao's headquarters. However, the situation is urgent and he cannot allow him to think too much. Zhong Yao led [-] cavalry from the new army to the border of Jinxi at night when he received the order advance.

With the bright moon in the sky and the clear air, Zhong Yao's army held torches and marched slowly westward like a winding fire dragon.

Although Zhong Yao was a little dissatisfied with the monarch, he was still a little excited to be able to go to the Jinxi battlefield. All the children in the new army were also very excited, only one of them was in pain.

Bai Yecheng was disheveled, and he drove his horse to follow Zhong Yao, gnawing miserably on the miscellaneous grain cake. After eating this kind of thing, he won't feel so uncomfortable after getting used to it, at least he won't vomit now.

An hour ago, Bai Yecheng was still dreaming on his soft bed, but a few young guys broke into the door, and without a word, he was carried to the barracks. He still remembered that the leader was the young man who tied him up last time. Boy, the commander of the first battalion of the new army has issued a certificate!

It's that brat again, I will definitely settle this account with him in the future!Sigh... I was tied up again in a daze, and I went out with the army again in a daze, what did I do...

"Zhong Yao, Zhong Yao, are you going to kill me?" Bai Yecheng ate with a mournful face and blamed Zhong Yao next to him: "After I came back from Chibei Mountain last time, I told you that I was not your advisor, why? Come again this time?"

Zhong Yao held back his smile and pretended to be calm and said, "Resignation from the military requires the approval of the General's Mansion. Your resignation request has not yet been approved by the General's Mansion, so you are still my counselor."

Half of the rice cakes eaten in Baiye City fell on Zhong Yao's silver armor: "Don't come here! The General's Mansion belongs to your family. Uncle Zhong is not here, so can you approve it for me?"

Zhong Yao swept the crumbs of grain cakes on his body, but he was not angry, and said flatly: "That's not okay, it's a matter of state affairs, and I have no right to approve it on my behalf."

Bai Yecheng pointed at Zhong Yao and scolded: "You are a thief ship, you are only allowed to get on the ship and not allowed to disembark! In vain I still recognize your son as a righteous son!"

"Remember to accept a adopted son, you, the adopted son who is the adoptive father, will not come to the full moon banquet."

Bai Yecheng suddenly realized, and scolded: "Oh, I understand, dare you hate me for not attending the full moon banquet for my adopted son, right? Zhong Yao, Zhong Yao, why are you so narrow-minded? I told you that I was Daddy is going to visit the merchant!"

Zhong Yao didn't want to get entangled with Baiye City any longer. He pretended not to hear, and shouted behind him: "The whole army must speed up, and we must arrive at the Jinxi border within five days!"

The noisy sound of horseshoes became hasty, and White Night City was once again pulled away by a certain distance.

"Wait for me, Zhong Yao, you bastard!"

(End of this chapter)