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Chapter 554
"La Chi! I will leave you three thousand troops to stop the Han army. I will personally lead the troops back to rescue the capital! Your brother La You will hold on to Dadaocheng for twenty days to protect the town. Today I will guard the retreat of the army.
I leave it to you, and I hope you, like your brother Layu, will ensure that our army has a safe future!"
Shang Dingtian said solemnly.
Lachi bowed and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, if the Han people want to pass through here, they must first step on my body!"
Shang Dingtian nodded and said: "After I defeat one of the Han armies, I will immediately send troops to meet you. As long as you enter the capital, the Han army will be helpless even if it is good at fighting!"
La Chidao: "In the end, the general will definitely fulfill his mission!"
Shang Dingtian hummed and ordered the generals: "Send the order and the army will march back to the capital immediately!"
Nan Ming suddenly stopped in front of Shang Dingtian and said eagerly: "Your Majesty, think again! In my opinion, the Han army is just making an attack in the east and attacking in the west. The Han army has less than 50,000 soldiers and horses, and its stronghold has just been built. What's wrong with Liu Ling?
Will they all come out in full force? According to my guess, the Han army can only mobilize about 30,000 troops. The scouts previously found out that the Han army also divided its troops to attack Dadaocheng, and the 5th and 6th Routes divided their troops to attack the capital. Each group had no less than 5,000 troops.
,Where did Liu Ling get so many people?"
Shang Dingtian snorted and said coldly: "Grand Chief, what do you mean?"
Nan Ming didn't hear the chill in Shang Dingtian's words, or maybe he heard it but deliberately ignored it. He stopped in front of Shang Dingtian and said sincerely: "I think Liu Ling's move is just to deceive others.
That's all. The main force is here, and the other groups are all suspects. I suggest that your Majesty immediately launch an army to attack the Han camp twenty miles away. As long as Liu Ling is in danger, the other groups of Han troops will be real.
If the scouts say there are enough troops, they will rush over immediately to relieve Liu Ling from danger!"
"There are still thousands of troops in the capital. The capital is so strong that even if the Han army launches a large-scale attack, it cannot be broken in a short time. Your Majesty does not need to return immediately. Once the main force of the Han army led by Liu Ling is defeated, the danger of the capital will be over immediately.
It will be lifted!”
Nan Ming stated his speculation in one breath. He looked at Shang Dingtian with hope, hoping that Shang Dingtian would adopt his suggestion.
Shang Dingtian sneered twice, pushed Nan Ming away and strode over. After taking three or four steps, he suddenly stopped without turning around, and said coldly: "Grand Chief, you...
...Are you delaying me so that the Han army can capture my capital as soon as possible?"
When Nan Ming heard this, his body stiffened suddenly!
He slowly turned around and looked at Shang Dingtian, whose back was so heartless. At this moment, Nan Ming seemed to have aged twenty years. The silver hair on his head became paler, and the wrinkles on his face became even more...
It was obvious. There was helplessness and sadness in his eyes, and he opened his mouth as if he didn't know what to say.
"Your Majesty, I have been planning for your Majesty for more than ten years and have devoted all my energy..."
"enough!"
Shang Dingtian interrupted Nan Ming's words coldly, turned his face slightly and said: "Grand Chief, you... are old. It's time to go back to the clan to enjoy the blessings."
After saying that, Shang Dingtian walked quickly forward, followed by a group of generals from the Zhongshan Kingdom. Most of the generals were from the Gaoshan tribe, but everyone did not look at Nanming when they left. As for Nan Ming,
The generals of the Pingpu tribe looked at Nan Ming coldly when they left. One general of the Pingpu tribe spat hard when he passed by Nan Ming, and then stepped on him hard.
If anyone dared to insult the chief of the Gaoshan tribe like this in normal times, they would have been besieged by the generals. But at this time, even La Chi, who usually respected Nan Ming the most, just sighed deeply.
, he paused when he walked past Nan Ming, glanced at Nan Ming hesitantly, and then quickly left to arrange defense.
In the wind, Nan Ming's white hair fluttered in the wind, feeling lonely and lonely.
"The best thing is to attack the heart, haha... The best thing is to attack the heart!"
Nan Ming smiled miserably and said to himself: "King Han! You are so calculating! It's a pity, my lord, that the word "attacking the heart is the best" was something you mentioned to me back then, but now...your majesty has forgotten it first.
"
Everyone gradually left, leaving only the lonely old man laughing up to the sky like crazy.
Looking back at Nan Ming who was laughing wildly, Shang Dingtian's face was filled with anger. He couldn't help but want to order the old man to be pulled out and beheaded, but thinking that most of his subordinates were soldiers and generals of the Gaoshan tribe, he finally
Still endured it.
"Ge Ge! Send someone to send the chief of the clan back to his clan, and let me check... who among the Ali clan is leading the way for the Han army! I want to see how many people in Zhongshan Kingdom are going to rebel.
I!"
Shang Dingtian ordered coldly.
Ge Ge was startled for a moment, then bowed and said: "General, I will obey your order!"
Not long after, the Zhongshan Army that was ambushing here began to evacuate. Because they didn’t know what happened, everyone had some unconcealable panic on their faces. They had been ambushing here for two days and two nights, and now they are so unclear.
They retreated to Quanye City, and everyone was a little worried.
Lacchi led his 3,000 Tengjia troops to guard the trail, waiting for the Han army to attack. He ordered the soldiers to cut down trees to block the path, then bent their bows and arrows and waited for the Han soldiers in black uniforms to appear in front of them. The battle began.
The solemn atmosphere in front of them made every soldier of the Tengjia Army become a little nervous, and the hands holding the horned bows turned slightly white from the exertion.
Less than a hundred meters away from where the Tengjia Army was defending, a clump of weeds suddenly moved. A Han army scout wearing dark green clothes slowly shrank back, turned around and said to another scout: "
Go and report to the prince quickly, Shang Dingtian only left the Tengjia Army’s defense route, and most of the Zhongshan Kingdom’s troops have already withdrawn!”
The scout hiding in the grass behind him nodded, and then slowly retreated back through the grass like a snake.
The scout found a secret place and made a few gestures to the distance. A few dozen meters away, another scout standing on the treetop nodded and slid down the tree trunk silently.
More than half an hour later, the news that the Zhongshan Army had withdrawn was reported to the Han Army's camp.
"Really withdrawn?"
Xu Qingzhu shook his head, as if he couldn't believe his ears: "The prince has a clever plan, and I will finally be convinced."
Liu Ling smiled and said: "Go and find all the generals from each banner. I want to mobilize troops!"
Xu Qingzhu quickly sent his soldiers to the camps of each small banner to summon the generals of each small banner. Not long after, the captains and two generals of the six small banners quickly walked outside Liu Ling's tent. Because the tent
It was a bit cramped, so we divided into two rows and stood outside Liu Ling's tent waiting for orders.
After Liu Ling and other generals arrived, he glanced at everyone and then said slowly: "Shang Dingtian's men and horses ambush in front have withdrawn, and only three thousand Tengjia troops are blocking them in front. The sky is already dark, and it is time to break through.
When there is an enemy! All battalions must listen to orders and assemble their troops immediately!”
All the generals responded in unison: "Yes!"
Just when Liu Ling summoned the generals to give orders, five miles behind the defense line set up by Tengjia Army, Shang Dingtian waved his hand and ordered the army to stop advancing.
"Your Majesty, why don't you leave?"
Ge Ge asked.
Shang Dingtian smiled slightly and said, "Let's go? Where are we going?"
Ge Ge said in confusion: "Aren't you going to rush back to the capital? The scouts said that the Han army closest to the capital has arrived twenty miles away from the capital. If the Han people attack the city at night, the defenders of the capital may be attacked.
Caught off guard."
Shang Dingtian shook his head and said: "No matter whether the patriarch was really bribed by Liu Ling or not, one thing he said is right. The city of Ye is built on the mountain and is solid and reliable. Even if the Han army raids, it will not be defeated by that."
It is a fool's errand to think that 5,000 men and horses can conquer Quanye City in a short period of time. The Han army lacks the equipment to attack the city, and there is a Wanjin Gate designed by me personally at the gate of Quanye City. Once the gate is closed, the terrain in front of the city is steep, and the Han army cannot use it.
How can it be possible for Kai to capture it?"
Ge Ge asked: "Then why did your Majesty give the order to rush back to the capital immediately?"
Shang Dingtian looked at the bright moon half blocked by trees in the sky, smiled slightly and said: "I ordered to return to the capital immediately, but it was just a show to Liu Ling. Ge Ge, I ask you...if you are
Liu Ling, King of Han, what will you do if you see me leading the army in a hurry back to Ye City?"
Ge Ge said without hesitation: "Advance immediately and cover up our army from behind when we are not prepared. As long as you stick to the back of our army and pursue us, you will be able to create the trend of rolling back the bead curtain that your Majesty mentioned before."
Shang Dingtian nodded with satisfaction and said: "It's not in vain that I teach you the art of war. That's right! If I were Liu Ling, I would definitely not miss this opportunity. No matter whether the Han troops are suspected soldiers, they are real.
Regardless of the army that is here, Liu Ling arranged all this not to conquer Quan Ye City, but to defeat me. He designed these strategies just waiting for me to return to rescue Quan Ye City! As long as my army returns to the division, Liu Ling will
Ling will immediately mobilize his entire army to attack with all his strength!"
Shang Dingtian smiled confidently: "Liu Ling thought he had an unparalleled plan, but he missed the most important part! No one knows the strength of Quan Ye City's defense better than me, and Liu Ling has never seen Quan Ye City.
Yecheng, so he doesn't know how stable my capital is. Even if several armies attack at the same time, how can he attack the city gate?"
Ge Ge's eyes lit up and he said excitedly: "Your Majesty means that the army will stop here. Once the Han army attacks with all its strength, Your Majesty will lead the army to fight back. In this case, the Han army will definitely be defeated!"
Shang Dingtian nodded, with a somewhat proud look on his face.
Ge Ge suddenly thought of something, and his expression changed instantly: "Your Majesty, why didn't you make it clear to Lachi when you left? If he knew your Majesty's arrangements, the two sides would have won a complete victory by working together! But Lachi didn't know what your Majesty meant, and he didn't know the army.
Right behind him, if the Han army attacks in large numbers, La Chi will be in trouble!"
The smile on Shang Dingtian's face gradually faded, replaced by a cold solemnity: "I...can't tell La Chi! If he knew that my army was behind him, he would definitely not resist the enemy with all his strength. Liu Ling has experienced it for a long time
The battle formation is extremely cunning. If he sees that Lachi's defense is not trying its best, he will immediately guess my plan! This battle is of great importance, it is related to the rise and fall of our Zhongshan Kingdom, and it is related to the future of the people of Zhongshan.
, I have to be careful...Rachi...I failed him."
Ge Ge suddenly felt a chill in his heart, which was so strong that it almost froze his blood. Shang Dingtian's words lingered in his heart for a long time, like ice picks that kept coming.
It was like a stab in his heart. He thought almost subconsciously, what would be the end if...if it was not Lachi but himself who was left behind?
Shang Dingtian looked at Ge Ge's changing face, and he guessed what Ge Ge was thinking. Sighing, Shang Dingtian patted Ge Ge on the shoulder and said: "I am responsible for the rise and fall of a country, so I have to be cruel.
Some. Don’t worry, La Chi is brave and good at fighting. As long as he can hold on for an hour, I will immediately attack as soon as the Han army’s offensive is exhausted! With the combat power of the Tengjia Army, it is not difficult to hold on for an hour!”
When Ge Ge heard what Shang Dingtian said, the chill in his heart did not lessen. But now that the matter has come to this, what else can he say? Ge Ge lowered his head and clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty has a wonderful plan, and the final general... I will only wait for His Majesty's order.
Take the lead and defeat the Han army in one fell swoop!"
Shang Dingtian knew that Ge Ge was unhappy, but he did not explain anything. In order to defeat Liu Ling, the king of Han, not to mention sacrificing one Lacchi, even if he had to fight to death with tens of thousands of his troops, what's the harm?
"Give the order, let the soldiers rest for a while, and be ready to fight at any time!"
Shang Dingtian ordered.
Ge Ge responded and immediately turned around and left. He was not in a hurry to deliver the order, but in a hurry to leave Shang Dingtian's side. He did not dare to look into Shang Dingtian's eyes, nor did he dare to stay by Shang Dingtian's side anymore.
That kind of chill was unbearable for him. He was escaping, as if he would feel less guilty if he wasn't with Shang Dingtian. In fact, he himself knew that this was just self-deception.
Five miles away, Lachi tightly grasped the heavy mountain machete weighing more than 30 kilograms and stared at the Han troops pouring out a few hundred meters in front without blinking. The Han troops were coming very quickly, His Majesty's
Not long after the army left, the Han army appeared. La Chi knew that he had no way out. As long as his team was defeated by the Han army, the Han army would immediately catch up with His Majesty's army and cover it up from behind. If His Majesty made any mistake,
If you do, then you will never redeem yourself.
"Children! Your Majesty is behind us. If we let the Han people pass, Your Majesty will be in danger! Tell me, will our Tengjia Army put Your Majesty in danger?"
Following his loud shout, the Tengjia Army shouted in unison: "Protect Your Majesty to the death!"
Lachi nodded vigorously and roared: "Don't be stingy with arrows. As long as the Han people are within shooting range, let me shoot them! There is no use keeping arrows at this time. We must not let the Han people get through!"
The more than five hundred archers at the forefront responded in unison, and then held the horn bows in their hands tighter!
Xu Qingzhu, the official commander of the small banner commanding the Han army's attack, followed the order of the King of Han to lead his small banner to launch the first wave of offensive. Although the number of Zhongshan troops defending was one and a half times the number of troops under his command, he knew that he
It must be defeated. Moreover, the King of Han explained the weakness of the Tengjia Army. The Tengjia Army that caught fire simply could not stop the great Han soldiers. As for whether it would cause a mountain fire, this was no longer something he had to consider.
It's over.
Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps!
The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer. With the orders of the generals of both sides, the archers of both sides loosened their bowstrings almost at the same time! The only difference was that the Han army’s archers tied a layer of cloth on the wolf tooth arrows and used
Soaked in vegetable oil, it was lit on fire. In an instant, thousands of feather arrows crossed in mid-air and pounced on the soldiers on both sides.
The lethality of arrows released in the forest is several times lower. The attacking Han army only needs to hide behind the big trees, and the arrows will hardly cause any harm to them. As for the soldiers of the Tengjia Army hiding behind the broken trees,
The probability of being hit by feather arrows is lower. However, the power of the Han army's rockets seems to be much greater than the Tengjia army expected.
A Tengjia Army soldier was hit in the chest by an arrow. The flames on the Wolf Fang Arrow exploded into a small ball of fire on his chest with a hissing sound! The blood spurting out from his chest did not extinguish the flame.
, and the rattan armor that had been soaked in tung oil four times was quickly ignited.
In just a few dozen seconds, this Tengjia Army soldier turned into a wildly rolling fireball!
A companion went to save him, but the flames on his body ignited the vine armor on his body. Soon both of them turned into fireballs, and then the flames grew stronger and stronger as they wailed. After a while, the scorch smell came out.
The smell rushed into everyone's nose, and then rushed into the brain unstoppably.
Compared with the entire front line of the Tengjia Army, the soldiers who were accidentally ignited were just sparks. But Lachi immediately discovered his own disadvantage. He suddenly realized that when he formed the Tengjia Army,
Did your Majesty hide something?
"Take off your armor! All take off your armor!"
Lachi shouted loudly.
For a time, all the soldiers of the Vine Armor Army began to take off their own Vine Armor, and they almost saw how the robes were burned to charcoal. Although they had deep feelings and dependence on the Vine Armor on their bodies, they cherished it even more.
With the sound of clattering, the soldiers took off their rattan armor one by one and threw them into the distance.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Tengjia Army taking off their armor and being unable to fire arrows, Xu Qingzhu suddenly emerged from behind the big tree and pointed his sword forward, shouting: "Kill over!"
The Han army with a small flag suddenly increased its speed, and ran across a distance of less than a hundred steps in seven or eight breaths. Soon, soldiers from both sides began to engage in hand-to-hand combat!
Without the protection of rattan armor, although the Zhongshan soldiers had the numerical advantage, they were gradually pushed back by the Han army.
The well-trained regular soldiers of the Han Dynasty have almost never encountered an opponent in the past five years. Face to face, the soldiers of the Han Dynasty are not afraid of any enemy. Although the scene looks very chaotic, if you observe carefully, you will find that
The chaos was caused by soldiers from the Zhongshan Kingdom. The well-equipped and well-trained Han soldiers were divided into groups of three, running at high speed like sophisticated killing machines. One person was responsible for the rear, and the other lured the enemy.
, one person kills, and the cooperation of three people is like flowing water. Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, even a few years ago, the cooperation of soldiers was to use groups of five to spread out small plum blossom formations to kill the enemy, but Liu Ling improved this small formation, although the number of people was reduced.
Two of them were killed, but the killing power was not reduced at all.
No matter in terms of equipment or training, the soldiers of the Zhongshan Kingdom were inferior to the Han army. Without the rattan armor they relied on, they were no longer invulnerable soldiers and generals. When they swung their weapons, their machetes were as good as the Han's standard horizontal swords.
In a sword fight, you are completely at a disadvantage.
Xu Qingzhu led dozens of soldiers and greeted loudly, gradually forming an attack formation of more than 300 people. The extremely sharp cone-shaped formation, with him as the forward, and the soldiers behind closely followed him to protect him.
Holding his left and right sides. This murderous big awl slammed into Liuqiu Ren's defense line, and instantly tore a hole in the already weak defense line. As the awl gradually penetrated deeper,
The tear is getting bigger and bigger.
Xu Qingzhu swept away half of a soldier's head with a knife, and then kicked the shaky body upside down. He wiped the blood on his face and looked at the pole dozens of steps away.
There was Liuqiu's battle flag, and there was a strong man holding a huge machete under the flag. With the corner of his mouth pursed, Xu Qingzhu pointed his knife at Liuqiu's flag and shouted: "Big Han Navy! Come with me and chop down the flag!"
"Han Dynasty Navy! Kill!"
The Han army behind roared wildly, and with Xu Qingzhu as the front, they stabbed fiercely at the battle flag of Liu Qiu Ren.
With one knife, Xu Qingzhu disembowelled a famous soldier, Xu Qingzhu, without even looking at the bloody internal organs that were bleeding all over the floor. Only the words that the King of Han asked him kept lingering in his mind: "Xu Qingzhu...are you afraid?"
Do you want to die? Do you have the courage to ask you to do something that will bring you a narrow escape?"
Xu Qingzhu suddenly raised his head and looked at the Liuqiu flag and the burly Liuqiu general. There seemed to be a fire burning in his eyes, and a voice in his heart suddenly shouted: "I am not afraid of death!" (
