Chapter 6: Holding the flag (eight times) "Protect the general!" Seeing the commander vomiting blood, all the guards were shocked and immediately rushed into the peach forest and formed a circle around Li Xu.
At this time, everyone would rather Hong Fu was an assassin than Li Xu's friend. If he were an ordinary assassin, I'm afraid that five more people might not be able to hurt the general at all. However, Hong Fu's singing and dancing made the general vomit blood and saw that the decisive battle was imminent.
, if General Li cannot afford to fall ill, what should everyone do?
Two or three people ran to the mountain stream with vigilance, following the blood stains on the ground to find where the red hair had disappeared. However, they saw a wisp of red gauze fluttering in the wind, and the singers and dancers just now had disappeared.
"Forget it, stop looking for it!" Li Xu smiled miserably and ordered in a low voice.
"But, but the body of General Red?" The guards didn't know how important Hong Fu was in the heart of the general, so they had to use the words "General Red" instead.
"Since she has made such a choice, she must not want to be disturbed again. The scenery here is very beautiful, and it is just right for her!" Li Xu wiped his mouth with his hand and sang loudly, "There is no way to die, support the body and the same mountain."
After singing, he picked up Hong Fu's used harp and brushed it with his hands. The sound was like a golden horse. After finishing the song, he strode to the mountain stream and threw away the valuable harp.
Go down, then stride down the mountain
"General, I think he is too sad!" A guard whispered to his companions, "You must let the madam know when you go back, so as not to cause any illness!"
"What do you know? This is the true nature of the general. When have you heard the general's song?" Another guard who had been following Li Xu for a while looked at the former and said with some contempt.
On the way back to the camp, Li Xu issued a hush-hush order with everyone, strictly prohibiting anyone from spreading the news about him vomiting blood, otherwise he would be severely punished according to military law. The battle was about to begin, and he did not want to shake his own military morale, nor did he dare to show any cowardice and exhaustion in front of the three armies.
Come
However, news about Hong Fu's whereabouts still spread quietly through the streets. Rumors said that Li Xu hid her to avoid the jealous Qier's trouble. Rumors said that after Hong Fu visited General Li's residence at night,
He rushed to the grassland, ready to give Gutuolu a fatal blow at any time. There were also rumors that the person who broke into General Li's house that morning was not Hong Fu at all, but a genuine assassin. General Li chased Baili, and finally died at the Great Wall.
Hongfu himself, with the help of General Li, gave up his past feud with Li Jing and finally achieved a happy marriage.
Only a handful of people vaguely heard the truth of the matter. In order to prove that she was not a useless woman, Hongfu sneaked into the grassland and stole the supply list of the Gutuolu army. On the way back to Zhuojun, he was injured by a wolf rider.
When Li Xu found her, she knew she was dead, so she said goodbye to her close friend with a graceful dance, and then threw herself into the bottomless lake under the Quail Stream.
She is a woman who cherishes her appearance as much as she cherishes feathers. She would rather die when she is most beautiful than let others see her dying appearance tortured by injuries. In other words, when she was at the gate of Chang'an City, she had already died and insisted on living until
Now, it's just to fulfill an unfulfilled wish
But this statement has the least audience. Everyone likes beautiful creatures like Hong Fu, who is beautiful, gentle and has martial arts skills. In the hearts of everyone, she is a fairy who never eats fireworks, and is even less likely to be injured or die. Therefore,
After the war, some good people sneaked into the deep lake under Quail Stream to search, hoping to find Hong Fu's body or relics. However, the ice in the lake that had not melted for thousands of years turned his lips black and blue, and he gave up halfway before reaching the bottom of the lake.
In the following years, there were many tourists visiting Quail Stream. Scholars thought that the word "quail" was not elegant, so they named it Peach Blossom Stream. The ruined temple on the mountain also got the name Peach Blossom Temple. According to legend, at the end of spring in the mountains, peach blossoms are flying everywhere.
, there is always a peerless beauty dancing with a sword in the forest, burning incense and asking about marriage, everything is efficacious!
None of the rumors reached Li Xu's ears. Everyone respected him. They were afraid that he would be distracted by this before the war, and they were even more afraid of him. They were afraid that he would suddenly become angry and do something unreasonable. Anyone with eyes could see it.
Hongfu's incident had a great impact on Xuzi. He used to be very talkative, and now he rarely talks to others. Most of the time, he always looks at the map near the Great Wall over and over again, wishing he could see every hill and stream.
It's all in my heart
When his hand presses the handle of the knife intentionally or unintentionally, there will always be a fierce murderous aura spreading around it, as if once the black knife is pulled out of the sheath, it cannot be inserted back without drinking human blood.
No one worthy of drawing his sword has come yet. Although in recent days, scouts posted outside the Great Wall have observed several groups of Turkic cavalry, ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 people, encamped in Nadu, a valley thirty miles away from the Great Wall.
It is the pathfinder sent by Gutuolu Khan. If the defenders on the Great Wall attack, he will immediately lead other wolf riders to surround them and strangle the attacking Central Plains soldiers and horses in one fell swoop.
If Li Xu stood still, Gutuolu would send troops one after another to the foot of the Great Wall to connect the pathfinding stones together, and finally deploy the entire army at the foot of the Great Wall.
"Do you want General Wang and the others to move?" Li Jiancheng felt uncomfortable with the silence before the battle, and privately suggested to Li Xu that there were currently two forces of the defenders hidden in the mountains outside the Great Wall, one of which was led by Wang Fubao with 20,000 troops.
The Dou family's elite army and another five thousand light cavalry led by Hedong general Dou Cong. As long as the smoke is lit at certain fixed positions on the Great Wall, these two troops will rush out quickly and attack the enemy's main line.
The Boling Army also dispatched five thousand cavalry. According to Wang Fubao's suggestion, they put on the nomadic costumes that they had captured in the battle. They left the red castle and made a detour to the headquarters of Gutuolu Khan, attacking the unmanned young men on duty along the way.
camp, and waited for the opportunity to rob and kill the herders who were transporting food and grass to the front for the Turkic army.
These three lines of troops are currently useless. Wang Xuba's troops need to avoid Gutuolu's main force, so they must first make a large detour to the east before heading north to ambush Dou Cong and Wang Fubao's two troops near the Great Wall.
Ma, Li Xu believed that they must enter the battlefield at the most critical moment to have the effect of turning the tide. Otherwise, harassing hundreds of thousands of troops with only 20,000 people, no matter how brave the generals are and how brave the soldiers are, it will be like a rat.
Tim cat nose
Therefore, he could not accept Li Jiancheng's proposal, shook his head with a smile, and responded in a low voice, "Before General Wang and General Dou attack, we have to fight with Gutuolu first. Both sides have shown their true abilities. Wang
, it took two generals Dou to find Gutuolu’s seven inches."
"What I mean is to send a message to Wang Fubao and ask him to send out some troops to create some chaos for Gutuolu so that the Turks can calmly arrange their arrangements as they are now. Dou Cong's side will not move until the two sides are in a stalemate and they can use their surprise troops!
"Li Jiancheng hesitated for a moment, and explained again that up to now, he still looked down upon the Dou family army who came to help, so he always tried to make him an abandoned son, in order to explore Gutuolu Khan's ability to coordinate the various troops under his command. Li Jiancheng
Xu always couldn't understand his hints. Only when he made his plans explicit could his face show a look of surprise.
Understanding is understanding, but Xuzi gave the same treatment to Hedong soldiers and horses and Dou's army. "General Wang and General Dou, I plan to let them attack at the same time and undertake the same task! Only in this way can we ensure a successful attack!" Seeing Li Jiancheng
With the disappointment on his face, he thought for a while and added: "General Dou's troops are all cavalry, and the attack will definitely progress faster than General Wang's. However, without the cooperation of the troops and horses under General Wang, only five thousand light cavalry can advance in."
It will be very difficult deep in the enemy camp and it will be difficult to escape unscathed!"
Ambush outside the Great Wall and search for machines to burn all the large siege equipment in Gutuolu Camp. This is a mission with a narrow escape. Even if the attack is successful, the chances of the participants returning to the Great Wall alive are not good. When assigning the task, Li Xu originally planned to use Boling
General Zhang Jiang came to lead the army to carry out the task, but Wang Fubao took the task away from Zhang Jiang on the grounds that the Dou family's army was more accustomed to lurking in the mountains.
It's not that he didn't see the danger behind the mission, but he would rather use his life to witness his promise. Based on this, Li Xu cannot let down the trust of Wang Fubao and others.
"I'm afraid that Dou Jiajun's actions will be slow and not achieve the expected results!" Li Jiancheng heard Xu Zi's firm words, so he had to quietly withdraw his little thoughts.
"In front of the two armies, courage is often more important than anything else!" Li Xu gave the other party a generous smile, "Brother Jiancheng, if you feel bored, go up to the city wall and stretch your muscles. This little fight in front of you will probably last for a few days.
, I’m not sure that Gutuoru will not do anything serious!”
"Instead of wasting energy on the Great Wall, I might as well go to the baggage camp and prepare some rolling logs and oil barrels for the brothers!" Li Jiancheng shrugged boredly and walked away with a smile.
The Turks' tactics were quite boring. After discovering that the defenders had no intention of taking the initiative to attack, a few pathfinding troops dispersed into countless small teams and started climbing the mountain separately. The number of people in each team was very small. Those walking in front held up their leather shields and covered their faces.
The people following behind held their heads and chests up, raised their buttocks high, and looked down from the Great Wall, just like sand grouse with their heads stuck in the grass. Their cries were like the whole nest of sand grouse.
The noise was endless and gave the defenders a headache. Whenever someone on the Great Wall felt upset and fired arrows at the bottom of the wall, regardless of whether they were injured or not, all the climbers immediately lay on the ground with their heads in their hands and walked down the hillside.
roll
This kind of disorderly and courageous attack, of course, had little effect because the attackers refused to get close to the city wall, and the arrows shot by the defenders were difficult to kill. It lasted for an hour or two, and the people on the Great Wall were
The defenders were no longer nervous. Whenever they were lucky enough to shoot an enemy, raucous laughter immediately erupted from behind the crenels around them.
According to Li Xu's judgment, the Turks deliberately used this scattered state to paralyze the defenders' indifferent climbers. The actual purpose was not to launch an attack on the Great Wall, but to find a few routes for the main force to arrive.
The suitable climbing path is very fast. There is an abnormal situation on the hillside. Where the Turks have climbed, one or two strands of white wool will appear on the gentle slope. Dots of wool spread from the hillside, forming several paths leading to the mountain.
Shortcut to the Great Wall
Xuzi asked Li Jiancheng to stretch his muscles on the Great Wall, meaning that he would take a bow and shoot a few Turkic warriors exploring the road to relieve his nervousness. Li Jiancheng was not willing to waste his energy on a group of soldiers.
He hoped that the person he could shoot was a local general. Even if his official rank was not a big Khan or a small Khan, he should at least be a little Burke, so that he would not be in vain.
"Report, urgent military situation!" A scout hurriedly ran into the tent and almost bumped into Li Jiancheng who was about to go out.
Drinker's Note: I see everyone's dissatisfaction, haha. In the legend of Tang Dynasty, the story of Hong Fu and Li Jing is originally fictional. When Yang Guang went to Jiangdu, Yang Su had been dead for many years. It was impossible for Li Jing to visit him at that time, let alone from his house.
Because this story of Stealing the Red Fu is so perfect, it has been passed down for thousands of years. But in life, there are always some things that are not as perfect as legends.
