First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 299 Capture Xu Xuanche Alive

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Shishou, Xiulinshan, and Gao Chong were astonished. It must be because of his energy-raising skills, but the news brought back by the scouts was too shocking.

The scouts were swallowing, obviously shocked, their voices were hoarse and they coughed dryly

Gao Chong waved his hand, "Give him a cup of tea and speak slowly."

The scout team was busy taking the tea and thanking them. After a while, they said directly: "Don't dare to lie to Chang Shi. It is indeed Jiaozhou soldiers who are attacking Yuezhou soldiers. There are battlefields everywhere along the shore of Shangjin Lake. It is amazing."

"Did you catch someone alive?" Gao Chong asked anxiously, feeling something was wrong as soon as the words came out.

Sure enough, the scout smiled wryly when he heard the words: "The battlefield was very tragic. Fights were everywhere by the lake, on the mountains, and in the fields. The humble officials dare not get too close."

"Then how do you know they are Jiaozhou soldiers and Yuezhou soldiers?" Jiang Baoyi asked with a frown.

Hearing this, Gao Chong waved his hands and said, "It's not difficult. Baoyi may not have been to Lingnan, and the people in Lingnan are easy to recognize by their body, voice, and appearance."

The scout nodded in agreement, admiring Gao Chong's knowledge. Lingnan dialect is the most obscure and difficult to understand, and Jiang Baoyi is a little curious. He is from the northwest, and he has never been to Lingnan. Jiang Baoyi suppressed his doubts in his heart if he failed to go there. He was afraid that Gao Chong would use the phrase "scholars don't go out" to blame him for not studying enough.

Gao Chong was thinking, Jiaozhou soldiers were under the command of Qiu He and Gao Shilian, and they attacked Yuezhou soldiers, it must be that Qiu Gao and his two had decided to return to Tang Dynasty, and attacked Xu Xuanche in order to make meritorious deeds.

Although Xu Xuanche had not been ambushed, Gao Chong was a little disappointed, but he was also very happy. Xu Xuanche had been defeated. As long as the news reached Jiangling, Jiangling City would be destroyed.

"Baoyi, we've spent two days in vain," Gao Chong said with a wry smile, "Let's withdraw our troops, we can't miss the Jiangling city."

Jiang Baoyi also figured out the joint, but he is cold by nature, so it is impossible to mind Qiu Gao's preemption of meritorious service.

At this time, the scouts from the foot of the mountain rushed to report, "About [-] Liang troops are coming here. Judging from their formation, they should be defeated."

Gao Chong was stunned, looked at Jiang Baoyi, and then said with a smile: "They eat meat, at least they left some soup for us", Gao Chong got up after speaking, "Come here, put on your armor, and prepare to fight."

Tang Jun, who had been feeding mosquitoes for two days in Xiulin Mountain, was overjoyed when he heard the military order, and quickly assembled.

"Baoyi, when the enemy army comes down the mountain, you will be the first to attack." Gao Chong said while putting on his armor, "I will lead a thousand-step cavalry to retreat."

Jiang Baoyi responded naturally, since he joined the army to conquer Xiao Xian, Jiang Baoyi has performed meritorious deeds, and when his troops return to the court in the future, not only will he be able to return to his original post, but perhaps he can go a step further.

"Your Majesty, there is Xiulin Mountain in front of you," said the deputy general, pointing to the abrupt peak in front of him, "After passing Xiulin Mountain and going up the river, it is only a hundred miles away from Jiangling."

Xu Xuanche put up the awning, squinted his eyes, and couldn't help admiring: "What a beautiful mountain forest, I will camp here tonight, and arrive in Jiangling tomorrow."

The lieutenant general heard the words and was about to go down to pass the order, Xu Xuanche suddenly called him to stop, and ordered another person to pass the order, and directly told the lieutenant general: "You lead a hundred people and go straight to Jiangling without stopping. You must find out the situation in Jiangling."

The lieutenant general was taken aback, feeling that his already tired body was even more exhausted, but facing Xu Xuanche's military orders, he had no choice but to comply.

It wasn't until half an hour after the deputy general led a hundred people straight to Jiangling via Xiulin Mountain that Xu Xuanche gave the order to continue marching and camp at Xiulin Mountain. Half an hour was enough to pass Xiulin Mountain, Xu Xuanche thought to himself.

Half an hour ago, Jiang Baoyi led his army to ambush in the jungle at the foot of the mountain. Seeing about a hundred people coming, Jiang Baoyi immediately stopped the movement of the soldiers and let the hundred people pass through Xiulin Mountain smoothly.

Jiang Baoyi was very disdainful of this, if he couldn't restrain himself from attacking these hundred people, then he would really be a stupid pig.

When Xu Xuanche led more than 4000 remnants of the army to the foot of the mountain, Jiang Baoyi immediately ordered an attack, first with a round of bows and arrows, and then with stones, smashing the Yuezhou soldiers into despair.

After Xu Xuanche was horrified, he hissed and shouted: "Don't panic, line up to meet the enemy."

However, Yuezhou's soldiers had just suffered a major defeat, and their morale was low. It was useless for Xu Xuanche to yell out his throat, and there was a great chaos.

Seeing this, Jiang Baoyi raised his gun and shouted: "Generals and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, kill me." After speaking, he raised his spear and jumped down from the hillside more than ten feet high, charging forward. This is also one of the characteristics of the generals of the Tang Dynasty First, even if Li Shimingui was the king of Qin, he personally led the army to charge.

"Tang, why are the Tang troops here?" Xu Xuanche was shocked when he heard the sound.

It is easy for him to understand that the Jiaozhou soldiers ambushed him. It was nothing more than Qiu and the old thief who had descended to Tang secretly, but where did this Tang army come from? Shouldn't the Tang army gather all its forces to attack Jiangling City at this time?Could it be that... Jiangling City has been broken?

Thinking of this, Xu Xuanche lost his mind and his eyes were empty. Seeing this, the personal guard hurriedly pulled him back, "My lord, quickly retreat."

"Withdraw?" Xu Xuanche smiled wryly when he heard the words, "Jiangling is broken, the saint may have been lost to thieves, Yuezhou soldiers are gone, and Jiaozhou soldiers are rebellious... The world is so big, where can we retreat?"

"I was originally a small official in Baling. I was granted the title of King Yan by the grace of the sage. Now the country is overthrown, and I have no face to live on." With quick eyes and quick hands, Wei swung his knife and knocked the sword in his hand to the ground.

"Your Majesty can't do it, I'll take you out of this humble position," the guard shouted loudly, just as he was about to step forward, his body stopped, blood gushed from his mouth, and he tried to raise his hands to cover his neck, but he couldn't hold it anymore Stop, fall off the horse.

Xu Xuanche touched the blood spattered on his face, and then looked at the sharp arrow piercing the neck of the guard, his face was pale and his hands were trembling.

Gao Chong slowly put away his bow and arrow, grinned, "I didn't expect to shoot a scapegoat", immediately grabbed the long spear and galloped over.

Only when Xu Xuanche was stunned, Gao Chong led his troops to rush in from the side, knocked them over with one spear, and shouted loudly: "Xiao Xian has surrendered, surrender to avoid death".

Hearing these words, Yuezhou soldiers couldn't help being startled, Xu Xuanche also raised his head hastily, and looked at Gao Chong, "Is my Great Liang sage okay?"

Gao Chong glanced at Xu Xuanche, "If you capture him without a fight, he will be fine."

The next scene made Gao Chong dumbfounded. Xu Xuanche dismounted without hesitation after hearing the words, "This king is willing to surrender, don't hurt my lord."

Gao Chong didn't react for a while, he just wanted to persuade him to surrender, it was just to persuade him to surrender, he didn't expect Xu Xuanche to be so decisive.

There was no need for Gao Chong and others to remind him, Xu Xuanche immediately ordered, "Yuezhou generals, obey the king's military order, surrender where they are, and make no mistakes."

(End of this chapter)