Seeing that Gongsun Linglong knew the importance of the matter, the empress said happily: "Okay, get ready and set off immediately."
Since Long Chen has sent a letter, it means that the time is coming and the Empress cannot delay.
Gongsun Linglong bowed and said, "I will accept the decree."
Yingfeng and Gongsun Linglong immediately left Huaqing Pool.
Ying Feng summoned the Shadow Guards, and Gongsun Linglong returned to the mountain and ordered the assembly, and sent the Thunder Fire Legion to Jade Buddha Pass in batches.
....
Outside Yangcheng.
The city had been besieged for two days, and Long Chen was meditating in his tent.
Besieging a city is actually very boring. Just set up deer antlers on the three gates to prevent soldiers in the city from suddenly rushing out.
The rest of the time, let the soldiers recharge their batteries.
A normal siege would involve repeated sieges, but Long Chen did nothing, just surrounded it, and that was it.
Therefore, Long Chen practiced martial arts when he had nothing to do, and the soldiers practiced and rested when they had nothing to do.
Shi Le would inspect the city defense three times every morning, noon and evening, and each time he would take a telescope to look at Long Chen's direction.
Tang Heizi walked in from outside the tent and said happily: "Sir, I'm waiting to report that a group of grain trucks is coming from the west."
Long Chen opened his eyes and asked strangely: "Grain truck? Grain truck?"
Tang Heizi nodded and said, "Yes, it's a grain truck. Waiter Qi said there are more than a hundred trucks."
Long Chen stood up and asked: "Is the news true?"
Tang Heizi nodded and said, "It's true."
Long Chen felt more and more strange and said: "That's not right, we have been besieging Yangcheng for two days. They should know, why are they still sending food over?"
"Could it be...bait?"
Xixia must have known about the siege of Yangcheng.
Maybe Li Chengdao even knew about it.
Knowing that Yangcheng was under siege, there was still a convoy transporting food?
No matter how you hear it, it doesn't make sense.
Tang Heizi said: "Whatever, as long as the food on the carriage is genuine, we will snatch it back."
When fighting, food is the most important thing.
Tang Heizi's eyes turned green when he heard there was a grain truck.
Long Chen felt something strange and said, "Call...Dugu Jiali over."
Tang Heizi immediately went to find Dugu Jiali.
Soon, Dugu Jiali came over on horseback.
"grown ups."
Dugu Jiali came in wearing armor.
"Tang Heizi said that Hou Qi found a group of Xixia grain trucks. You go with him to have a look and take five thousand people with you."
"If it is really a grain truck, the grain will be robbed."
"If it's a bait, don't be reluctant to fight and retreat immediately."
Long Chen felt that the appearance of the grain truck was unreasonable, but it would be a pity not to grab the grain truck when it was there.
Dugu Jiali bowed and said, "The last general will take your orders."
Dugu Jiali and Tang Heizi immediately ordered five thousand cavalry, waiting to lead the way, and galloped westward.
Long Chen didn't go to intercept it in person, he was worried that this was trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain.
Once Long Chen left, Shi Le took the opportunity to break out of the encirclement and even took advantage of the situation to counterattack.
So Long Chen didn't go and only sent Dugu Jiali.
Dugu Jiali has the cultivation of Emperor Wu, which is enough to deal with the people of Xixia.
It's better to have more masters under you, and you can be a general if you just click on one.
Dugu Jiali led the cavalry quickly to the west, and soon saw a convoy transporting grain.
There were more than a hundred vehicles with bulging items in linen bags.
"Is that stuff food?"
Tang Heizi suspected that the things on the carriage were not grain.
Dugu Jiali said: "It's simple."
Picking up the carved bow and following for several hundred meters, Dugu Jiali was on horseback, throwing an arrow into the sky.
The arrow shot up into the sky and shot a parabola, just hitting the linen bag of a carriage.
The arrow shot into the bag, and the wheat in the bag flowed out.
Dugu Jiali took out her telescope and saw wheat flowing out of the bag. The soldiers escorting the grain panicked and picked up their weapons to be on guard.
"That's right, it's food."
Dugu Jiali said happily.
Tang Heizi said happily: "This much food is enough for us to eat for several days."
Dugu Jiali was also very happy and said: "You can also save some food for us, let's go and grab it!"
Dugu Jiali took the lead and rushed over with more than 5,000 cavalry.
Before Dugu Jiali could rush to the grain transport team, she saw a miscellaneous army rushing out from the roadside and surrounding the grain transport team and killing them indiscriminately.
Dugu Jiali stopped, and Tang Heizi ordered to stop charging.
"What's going on? Who are they?"
Tang Heizi looked around and saw that the armor and weapons of this army were all in a mess, but the flag was exquisite, made of silk material, and embroidered with a large "Zhu" character.
"Is this...the rebellion of Xixia? No, it's the rebel army of Xixia."
Dugu Jiali had long heard that because of the Qiuzitang incident, many people in Xixia rebelled. They formed a rebel army and attacked the Xixia court everywhere.
Many of them were Xixia spies and soldiers. Their wives were also raped and humiliated by the monks of Zhaoti Temple, and they also rebelled.
Soon, the rebels took control of the food transport convoy and all the soldiers transporting food were killed.
Seeing this, Tang Heizi asked: "General Dugu, this is the case... shall we fight or not?"
Dugu Jiali sneered: "How could they take away the food we like?"
Tang Heizi felt that it made sense, so he sent out five thousand soldiers and horses, but he couldn't return empty-handed.
"kill!"
Tang Heizi rode his horse and charged towards them.
The rebels who were grabbing food suddenly saw more than 5,000 elite cavalry attacking, and they were frightened and hurriedly resisted.
The leader was a man holding a broadsword and riding a maroon horse.
Seeing the incoming cavalry holding a military flag with the word "dragon" in it, he immediately stepped forward and shouted: "Are you the Long Family Army?"
Tang Heizi rushed up and shouted: "The Long Family Army is here!"
Upon hearing the name of the Long Family Army, the man immediately shouted: "Everyone put down their weapons, this is the Long Family Army!"
Everyone discarded their weapons and raised their hands to welcome the Long family army.
Tang Heizi rushed over with his troops and horses, and was about to kill them in a big way to make the rebels give up their resistance.
Unexpectedly, the rebels surrendered before taking action.
Dugu Jiali stopped, looked at the man coldly, and asked, "Who are you?"
The man immediately dismounted his horse and paid homage: "Zhu Yong, the owner of the small Zhujiazhuang, all the female relatives in the village have been ruined by the lewd monks of Zhaoti Temple."
"I...I killed those bitches, and then those bastards, and now I am leading my troops to attack the city and seize the land. I swear that I will kill all the bald donkeys in Zhaoti Temple and kill the faint Lord Shi Le with my own hands."
This man is Zhu Yong, the owner of Zhujiazhuang.
After Long Chen caught ghosts for Zhu Yong, he told Zhu Yong the truth.
Of course Zhu Yong didn't believe it and only regarded Long Chen as a nonsense demon.
But later, the news about Zhaoti Temple's Qiuzitang reached Zhujiazhuang, and Zhu Yong secretly imprisoned Mu and other concubines for torture and interrogation.
Under torture, all the wives and concubines confessed.
Especially Mu, she was Zhu Yong's wife, but she went to Zhaoti Temple every year to beg for a child and live with the monks.
Zhu Yong is extremely possessive, so of course he cannot accept such a thing.
The more Zhu Yong thought about it, the angrier he became. Finally, he held a family banquet, poisoned the food, and poisoned all the wild girls.
After that, he killed his wife and concubines and burned down Zhujiazhuang.
Then, Zhu Yong dispersed his money, tangled with desperadoes and men who had also been cheated, and formed a rebel army of more than 4,000 people.
They discovered the grain transport convoy and immediately led troops to attack it.
