Chapter 229 Surprisingly attacked in the rain

The heavy rain was like a rush, and the rain curtain connected the heaven and earth. The Zheng army soldiers on the walls of Yanshi City were wearing rain and looked vigilantly at the Tang army camp in the distance, but their vision was not wide enough. Just a hundred steps away, there were white areas, and the sound of wind and rain were all in their ears.

Because the entire army arrived in Yanshi in a hurry, the Zheng army soldiers did not have enough camp tents, so they mostly set up straw huts to make do with them. In such heavy rain, not even the tents did not leak. The drainage facilities in Yanshi City were not good, and not all the barracks were built in the city were high, and some places were flooded. Most of the soldiers had to sleep all night, and the soldiers could not take the ban and moved to hide from the rain. The camp was already in chaos, and it was a bit lucky to not blow up the camp on the spot. After a heavy rain, almost everyone's clothes were wet, especially wearing armor wet by the rain, which was cold and sticky, and very uncomfortable.

The Zheng army soldiers standing on the city wall looked at the Tang army camp outside the city with envy, and there was no movement yet. I think the Tang army camp was built with a shallow hill. Although the rain was heavy, it would definitely not flood them. Moreover, their tents were all new, so there was no need to worry about leaking rain.

A thick smoke had already risen in the Tang army camp, making the vision even more blurred. A Zheng army captain cursed angrily: "Damn, this is our brothers' life. Look at them sleeping comfortably and eating sweetly..."

At this moment, a clanging sound came from the rain curtain, and the Zheng army soldiers quickly stood solemnly. Soon, Wang Shiyun brought his personal guards to the city gate tower and asked in a slight manner: "Is there any movement in the Tang army camp?"

The captain quickly reported: "Report to His Highness, the Tang army camp did not move. Seeing the smoke rising in the cooking stove, they thought they should be making breakfast!"

Wang Shiyun nodded and said, "Order the generals to change shifts in one hour!"

The Zheng army soldiers were so moved that they wanted to cry. They were as cold as bones when they were soaked in the heavy rain. They stood for two hours in the guard station, which was simply not a job for humans.

Wang Shiyun always felt something was wrong, but unfortunately his vision was too bad in the rain, and he couldn't see the movements of the Tang Army camp at all. Wang Shiyun thought for a while and said, "Hold a few people with a hanging basket and go to the Tang Army camp to take a look!"

More than a dozen Zheng soldiers sent out crawled into the hanging basket cursingly and slowly fell into the city. They moved towards the Tang army camp with uneasyness and entered the Tang army camp with one arrow.

A Zheng army soldier holding the hilt of the knife said to the leader: "Han Tou, let's really go to reconnaissance!"

The leading gang leader said, "Does our brothers choose? How cruel are the ones surnamed Wang? You don't know. Dong Liuzi from the front camp just complained a few times and was beaten to death. Cao Damu said that Dong Liuzi had no complete bones on his body!"

Hearing this, the Zheng soldiers around him were so scared that they were urinating.

"Even if we go, we may be cut by Tang Jun!"

"I'm afraid of my bad luck. Whose family's food is not eaten?" said the captain: "Tang army can't shoot arrows now. When we look at them raising their swords, we will surrender!"

The soldiers moved forward timidly and finally touched the gate of the Tang army camp. The troupe saw that the Tang army soldiers standing in front of the camp were actually several scarecrows, wearing leather armor and holding swords and guns.

"Hey... Tang Jun is so fucking happy, even standing guard is fake!"

"Han Tou, it seems something is wrong. Don't these Tang soldiers really sleep to death, right?"

The head of Han's face changed slightly. He bent down and picked up a piece of mud, kneaded it into a ball, and threw it into the camp. Unfortunately, there was no movement except the sound of rain.

Mr. Han said: "Tang Jun may have run away, hurry up and go and have a look!"

The soldiers moved away from the horses and rushed in. If the large Tang army camp had already left the camp at this time, many tents surrounded the stove hall with soil, and the wheat straw and straw that the soldiers had laid on the ground burned in the stove in the center of the tent.

Some tents have pots hanging on the stove, and large pieces of bones are boiled in the pot, and there is also an attractive fragrance in the pot.

When Wang Shiyun was caught in the reconnaissance, he was shocked and screamed in dismay: "What? The Tang army camp is empty?"

Chief Han nodded heavily and said, "Report to His Highness, if there is a lie in the word, you will chop my head!"

When it comes to Chen Ying, he really never thought that his troops cross the river and go straight to the city of Luoyang.

Originally, Sun Jingchu only had dozens of canal ships to die, and all of them were small boats of 100 stone. If he transported the baggage, he could barely transport three or five thousand stones. If he transported the soldiers, he would only have two thousand people to die.

However, Chen Ying never expected that Sun Jingchu would bring in more than a thousand ships at once, and there were fifty or sixty thousand stone square ships.

With the opening of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal by Yangguang, a new industry was also derived from the Grand Canal.

Where there are people, there are martial arts and rivers and lakes, there are struggles. Gradually, a circle of living on the canal transportation was formed. In the new industry of canal transportation, the big heads were actually controlled by the government and aristocratic families. However, in addition to the larger canal transportation fleet controlled by the aristocratic families, there are also some, such as Sun Jingchu and others, who own one or more canal ships and rely on transportation to make some hard money.

However, with the chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty, thirty-six routes against the king and seventy-two routes of dust and smoke, they controlled one or more sections of the canal, and this canal channel also fell into a standstill. These canal workers themselves had no arable land and lost their work in canal transportation, and their lives were also in trouble.

It was not until three months of money that Sun Jingchu, who was about to be a pants, suddenly became generous. Many ship owners came to Sun Jingchu to fight for the autumn wind. Only then did they know that Sun Jingchu was originally a disciple of Hou Mo Chen. If Hou Mo Chen had already begun to rise again, Hou Mo Chenqian would become the Guanglu doctor of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Ying became the champion general of the Tang Dynasty, the guest of the crown prince of the Eastern Palace, especially Chen Ying. If Chen Ying did not make any mistakes and Li Jiancheng ascended the throne in the future, then Chen Ying would definitely become one of the prime ministers with his qualifications.

Sun Jingchu is also a very ambitious person. He wanted to become the leader of the canal transportation and ordered thousands of fleets of ships in the canal. When Chen Ying sent a notice to use him, he spread the hero posts and called on the bosses who had been friends to come and help.

Originally, there was a risk in transporting military supplies for Chen Ying, but Sun Jingchu was so swearing. In his mouth, Chen Ying became an omnipotent person and a boy with money. As long as he helped Chen Ying this time, Chen Ying would repay them with the benefits that they would not be able to afford for the rest of their lives.

The boat owners who had already been unable to make trouble at home had sent three or five ships and corresponding boatmen with a suspicious thought, sent three or five ships and the corresponding boatmen to make a living. Who would have thought that Sun Jingchu would reject these ships without hesitation? And Sun Jingchu let someone make a noise, and Long Kang Liu immediately brought the people and the boat, so they should not be embarrassed.

Long Kang Liu was originally the son of the Department of Works of the Sui Dynasty. The Long Kang Liu family was also a large family of Long Kang. When they entered the canal operation industry, they also made more than 500 canal transport ships at one time, becoming a well-known canal transporter.

The bosses of the ships knew Sun Jingchu's direct lineage. When they saw that the Liu family was planning to intervene in this canal transportation, they felt that it was very safe and there should be no problem. Many ship owners were carrying gifts and smiling faces begging Sun Jingchu to help him to reconcile. In this way, Sun Jingchu just opened his mouth and fooled thousands of large and small canal ships to transport supplies to the Tang army.

When Chen Ying got so many canal ships, he immediately changed his plan and decided to bypass Wang Shiyun from the waterway and land directly in Mengjin, Luoyang, and take Luoyang directly. At the same time, he ordered Liu Tong and Xunxiang to lead the newly reorganized refugee army to join the city of Luoyang.

Taking advantage of the heavy rain, the Tang army soldiers were not open enough, and they followed each other hand in hand to touch the dark side of Fotantou Ferry. Until dawn, the entire Tang army was empty.

Chen Ying's command of more than 40,000 people and horses were riding on more than 1,000 large and small canal ships, and marched towards Luoyang in a mighty manner.

Chen Ying and Li Xiuning boarded a Thousand Stone Square Boat. In order to prevent accidents, Chen Ying also arranged more than 100 soldiers of the Modao Army on the ship. The three-masted square boats extended into the air, blowing the wind through the howling sound.

The rain was slightly smaller and the limelight was not weak. In this case, it was actually very dangerous to sail. Chen Ying asked everyone else to withdraw into the cabin, and he and Zhou Qing stood under the canopy and looked outside.

At this time, Li Xiuning finally believed that Chen Ying spared no effort to rescue Li Shimin. More than a thousand canal ships were needed, even if the court came forward to organize it, it would take a lot of effort. Chen Ying actually completed such a large mobilization silently.

Li Xiuning felt very guilty when she misunderstood Chen Ying. Seeing that Chen Ying's armor had been wet with the rain, she used the red mud stove on the boat to make a bowl of ginger candy hot soup for Chen Ying.

Li Xiuning brought ginger candy soup to Chen Ying and said, "Chen Lang, drink some soup to warm your body!"

Chen Ying looked at Zhou Qing and said, "At most, there is an hour left. He ordered all ships to take the right guard of the East Palace as the front drive, disembark first, and seize the tidal flat position first, and the Modao Army is the second!"

A small whistleboat slowly approached the big ship. A strong young man in a short-clad shirt on the bow squatted at the bow and turned around to the old avenue of the ships on the boat: "Everyone, my surname is Sun will never speak illusions. General Chen is busy with military affairs now. I can't tell if he has time to see you!"

It is said that some people in the court are easy to be officials, but in fact they do things the same. Without a strong backer, it is really difficult to do things, especially those who run the canal transport, and the officials along the canal have been stripped down layer by layer, causing them to make trouble. The canal transport ships controlled by the aristocratic families are not only exempt from inspection, but also do not have to pay taxes. This not only saves time and effort, but also does not have to worry about being made difficult by those foolish officials.

However, they were born in a humble family and had no chance even if they wanted to hold on. Moreover, when the aristocratic families saw the huge profits of the canal transportation, they wanted to swallow them and the people and ships in one go.

At this time, Sun Jingchu pointed out a clear path for them and defected to the Houmo Chen family. Although Houmo Chen family was no longer the Western Wei Dynasty and was so noble in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, as an old Guanzhong nobleman, in their eyes, the Houmo Chen family still had to look up like a mountain, not to mention that they could not understand the difference between the champion general and the sixteen guard general.

In fact, Chen Ying was not ranked among the top 16 generals of the Tang army at this time. However, under the sixteen guards, there were no more than his champion generals, and there was also a general of the cavalry, and then the champion general. In fact, in his position in the military, Chen Ying could barely enter the top 30 and belonged to a senior general with a name.

The boat approached Chen Ying's boat, and Sun Jingchu showed his identity nervously. At the critical moment, Guo Luo appeared. Guo Luo said very politely: "Governor Sun Shuai is here, I'll lead you."

When the bosses of the ship heard Guo Luo call him the governor of Sun Jingchu, they knew that he was still an official, and it seemed that he was not small. Sun Jingchu did not point it out. His official was from the Northern Zhou Dynasty and was not recognized in the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, this official was actually a seven-life military officer who was in charge of No. 100 people, equivalent to a small brigade coach in the Tang Dynasty.

Guo Luo led everyone to the deck along the rope ladder. Looking at the soldiers of the Modao Army standing solemnly like a javelin on the deck, they were immediately frightened. After passing through the layers of the Modao Army and the guards, Guo Luo pointed to Chen Ying in the cabin and said, "That's my general..."

Sun Jingchu looked at Chen Ying and saw Chen Ying wearing dark armor, holding the handle of the horizontal knife, standing in front of a group of generals, saying things. He frowned, as if he was not very satisfied with other people's work. He pulled out the horizontal knife, used the tip of the knife as a pen, and wrote instructions on the deck with markings and gestures. He only asked others that he really understood his intention before he let others do things.

Chen Ying was much younger than he thought; Chen Ying was just over the age of twentieth, but his actions and reputation would give others an illusion. Even though he was so young, his instructions to others to listen carefully made him look very prestigious. In fact, he was guarded by more than a hundred soldiers of the Modao Army, even the stupid son of the landlord family would feel very prestigious.

Sun Jingchu noticed someone next to him mentioned Chen Ying to look here, and hurriedly bowed and reported to his house, saying, "Suan Jingchu, the disciple, paid a visit to the master..."

"Oh, I thought you wouldn't come a few days later, so would you be calm along the way?" Chen Ying walked over and helped Sun Jingchu's arm, asking him not to give such a big tribute.

"How dare Jingchu delay the military affairs of the lord?" Sun Jingchu said, looking around.

"Let's go in and speak..." Chen Ying smiled and said, "You have really helped me!"

Facing the boss of the ships, Chen Ying did not pose as a champion general, and thanked everyone very peacefully for their help, and promised everyone that Hou Mochen should ensure their safety on the canal in the future. The boss of the ships left with great gratitude.

At this time, Mengjin Dui also arrived.

I don’t know if it was because of the weather or negligence. There was no Zheng army soldiers defending the Mengjin Ferry. Instead, Luo Shixin and Zhang Shigui led more than 6,000 cavalry lances to form a tight line of defense ten miles of the ferry.

The soldiers of the Tang army got off the boat and climbed the ferry in the rain, and directly lined up in battle formations at the ferry, and advanced in turn. Chen Ying and Li Xiuning came ashore in the first wave. Chen Ying did not wait for the entire army to go ashore, but waited for the right guard of the East Palace to take all the offshore, and the Modao Army came ashore. Chen Ying slowly put on a metal trumpet, stepped on the horse's back, tied the reins with one hand, pulled out the sword with the other, and shouted: "All generals, Chen Ying and you are equally arriving, destroying the king's thieves and restoring Luoyang."

Swing a knife to issue an order to march.

The thick sound of war drums resounded across the earth, and the hook and sickle lances slowly advanced. Generally speaking, the leader of the fish scale formation was in the middle, but Chen Ying commanded the battle between the two square formations on the second floor, moving forward with the formation. Once the front line was blocked, Chen Ying himself would take over the enemy. Although it was dangerous, it also aroused the high morale of the generals.

The "dongdong..." war drum resounded across the earth, as if God was stimulated by the war drum, and the rain was even more rapid. Lightning and thunder flashed from time to time in the sky, making the vision worse.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and it seemed to be a downward trend. At the foot of Mang Mountain, Zheng Jun had not yet realized the approaching of danger, and lightning and thunder had become the best cover for Chen Ying's army.

A Zheng army captain vaguely felt something was wrong. He rubbed his eyes and wanted to see through the scene behind the rain curtain. However, a flash of lightning illuminated the sky, and the dense army of black armored and black armored soldiers was sweeping down like a black torrent.

"Enemy attack...Enemy attack!"

"Puchi..." A cold light flashed, and his big head rolled on the ground like a ball, and the scream stopped abruptly.
Chapter completed!