When Chen Chong arrived at Meiji, signs of camp departures could be seen everywhere in the south of Meiji City. However, although the market outside the city was still open, there were still many farmers working outside the city. Dozens of cavalry escorted Chen Chong as he drove past the roadside. The farmers watched.
After a quick glance, everyone lowered their heads and focused on the fields.
At this moment, Liu Jia was the only one left in the royal court. When she saw Chen Chong, she was shocked. Because Chen Chong was bumpy along the way, the wounds on his eyebrows were split, and the cloth and the wounds were stuck together, and pus kept flowing out.
The fishy smell made him almost faint. Liu Jia hurriedly placed him on the couch and applied hot water for half an hour. Then he tore off the old towel and put medicine on Chen Chong.
After Chen Chong had been lying there for an hour and felt a little better, he asked Liu Bei how many days he had been gone and where he was. Liu Jia was helpless and gave him another pair of wet cloths before saying, "Xuande led his troops to set out the day before yesterday. Now,
It should be in Zhenlin City in the south." Chen Chong immediately struggled to sit up and said, "It seems I can still make it. It's getting late, so I'd better go quickly."
Liu Jia couldn't persuade him no matter how hard he tried. He could only hold on to the door lintel and sigh, watching Chen Chong leave again.
On the way, the accompanying knights saw that Chen Chong's face was as white as paper, and they all advised him to take a rest, but Chen Chong refused. He replied: "I have always been this kind of temperament. I will try my best. Even if I fall on the road, I can still do it."
I feel at ease."
The result was quite unfortunate. Chen Chong hit the mark. He fell asleep again on the way. The knights did not dare to pull him back to Meiji, so they had no choice but to go to Zhenlin. When they arrived at Liu Bei's camp that night, Liu Bei had heard that
When Chen Chong arrived, he thought he was safe, but it turned out that Chen Chong was unconscious with a high fever and felt hot all over. He was frightened. He immediately called the doctor to give Chen Chong medicine to reduce the fever. He stayed by until Chen Chong's fever subsided.
After it faded, he went back to take a rest.
When Chen Chong woke up again, it was already three days later. He found himself lying on a wheelbarrow, with a packhorse pulling in front, and Liu Bei riding beside him. He was arguing with the generals, and everyone was moving forward in sync with the wheelbarrow.
Chen Chong greeted him, and Liu Bei was full of surprise. He stopped the discussion and smiled at everyone: "Okay, my Cigu (the daughter-in-law's name for her mother-in-law) woke up. He was afraid that I would lose this battle, so he came here specifically to give me help."
I'm showing off!"
Chen Chong was not in the mood to joke and asked Liu Bei directly: "Where are we going?"
Only then did Liu Bei become serious. He said, "My followers have already told me, didn't they say that there is an old Qu Shuai who is planning to arrange for Bai Bo to betray the Liang army again? This is a good opportunity. Our scouts reported that the south
Xu Rong has arrived. We are now arranging our troops in Baitu to prepare for war. I plan to take advantage of their lack of strength to force them to fight. This is better than the two armies facing each other in Shangjun. As time goes by, there will always be some changes."
Chen Chong nodded, lay back on the board, reluctantly ate something, his head felt swollen and empty, and he fell asleep soon.
When he woke up for the third time, Chen Chong found that he was already in the camp. He felt much better this time, and his clothes were soaked with sweat, but his body was still feeling weak. Fortunately, his mind was clear and he could still hear the soldiers outside the tent.
The sound of beating wooden piles is like the footsteps of fate.
Chen Chong lay in the cold quilt and began to involuntarily meditate on the situation in Bingzhou at this time. Elites from the north and south of Shangjun were now gathered together, and the battlefield already accommodated nearly 200,000 troops. But since Lishi and Meiji were still in the hands of Bingzhou, what about Shangjun?
The Liang army could not rely on the city for defense. After all, the rest were small cities and could not accommodate more than 30,000 troops. Moreover, for Guanzhong, Shangjun had difficulty in supplying supplies. If it became a protracted confrontation, the disadvantage would still be in Guanzhong, so in a battle
The battle to decide the ownership of Shangjun is inevitable.
If the combined army is victorious, they can even coerce the defeated army and try to enter Chang'an again. If the combined army is defeated, they will have to abandon Shangjun and be trapped in Meiji and Lishi. And everything depends on Wang Mao's self-proclaimed Baibo anyway.
He will decide the outcome of this battle. Can he really succeed? Chen Chong was thinking so anxiously about gains and losses. Normally, he would not have such doubts, but after experiencing Yang Han's rebellion, he became hesitant about this.
Even a little skeptical.
Liu Bei walked in at this time. Seeing that Chen Chong was getting better, he told him the news: "Ting Jian, we have arrived in the north of Baitu City today, and we are already close to the Liang people." He was not timid when encountering a battle but was happy and said with a smile: "
I originally thought that the Liang army would delay the opportunity and retreat to Fushi to fight again. Unexpectedly, they did not retreat today. Instead, they confronted me on the south bank of the Wan River. They even sent an order to make an appointment with me to fight!" p>
"When are you going to accept the challenge?" Chen Chong could tell that Liu Bei was impatient to wait.
"Just tomorrow!"
Chen Chong stood up and asked him: "Are you too impatient?"
"There's no rush." Liu Bei saw that Chen Chong wanted to take part in the command, so he pushed him back on the couch and advised him: "If you go to the battlefield like this, it will only affect your morale, and you won't get better in a while.
You stay here tomorrow and listen to my trumpet call for victory!"
Chen Chong wanted to argue with Liu Bei again, but Liu Bei patted his shoulder and said solemnly: "Ting Jian, I have had great ambitions since I was a child. How can I be less eager to win than you are? How can the great cause of the country be really tied to one person?"
You should take a good rest. Now there are many good generals in the army and the seats are full of scholars. Even if you rest for a while, I can still win!"
After saying these words, Chen Chong knew that he had made up his mind, so he changed his words and said, "Then I will wait for your good news tomorrow."
Before dawn the next day, Chen Chong was awakened by the sound of drums and bugles summoning the sergeants, followed by the sound of dense footsteps, like a violent storm beating on the ground. After two moments, the sound gradually faded away.
Chen Chong struggled to get up, feeling that his steps were still a little shaky, but he finally rolled up the curtain and looked up to see the stars in the sky and the moon hidden in the foothills.
Two young soldiers were standing at the tent. When they saw him coming out, they asked him if there was any inconvenience. Chen Chong saw that they were relatively young, so he smiled and shook his head, then asked their ages, and found out that they were only ten years old.
Six years old, they were from the same hometown, and both were recruited to join the army this year. After all, the situation this year was not good, and the family heard that the army was in charge of food, so they were sent to Jinyang. Liu Bei saw that they were young,
So they kept them in the guard camp. At this time of the battle, they couldn't fight, so they guarded Chen Chong here. Chen Chong asked them if they knew how to shoot, and they all laughed and said, "How can anyone in Bingzhou not know how to bend a bow?"
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The three of them chatted for a while, and the sky gradually became blurry. Chen Chong estimated that the army had already assembled and started to line up south, so he suggested to the two teenagers: "Do you dare to follow me to watch the battle between the two armies?" The two young men looked at each other. Although their eyes were eager to try, they still said hesitantly: "You are ill, how can you go to the front line? Arrows have no eyes. If a stray arrow hits you, we are afraid that we will have to engage in military law." p>
Chen Chong comforted them and said: "Looking for a hill, just look at it from a distance. How can I still seek death in my current state?" Then he persuaded them with one sentence: "You have just joined the army. If you don't have many
Look at the marching formations on both sides, you will never be a general in the future."
The two men immediately found two horses and helped Chen Chong up, then left the camp and rushed south.
After riding their horses for ten miles to the south, they saw the enemy's rear army in the distance, so they bypassed the main road and ran into a nearby ravine. They waited until they climbed over three more mountains and climbed to the top of the fourth mountain.
Saw the front line of the merge.
It's daybreak, the sky is infinitely blue, the air is bleak and clear, the fallen leaves along both sides of the Wan River are as yellow as dust, against the dark brown tree trunks, extending to the sky. The Bingzhou army is heading south, and the armored weapons are shining in the sun.
, Chen Chong was several miles away, looking at things only with his right eye, and he could still see a bright scene.
Just after Chen hour, the two armies met at the edge of the Wan River. Both armies lined up with their cavalry, with their backs to the Wan River, while the Liang army faced the Wan River. However, the Liang army swept through the arsenals of the two capitals and wore armor.
There were a large number of people, and even the accompanying Baibo Army and Tiefu tribe distributed a lot of armor, of course mainly leather armor.
One of the two young men was seven feet tall, and the other was six feet tall. The seven-foot one was named Wu Yu. He asked Chen Chong strangely: "Your Majesty, I heard General Zhengxi said that the taboo in battle is to betray the enemy."
While fighting, why did our army take the initiative to back the enemy? Isn’t this putting ourselves at a disadvantage?”
Chen Chong couldn't see clearly, so he simply listened to Wu Yu's report. He smiled and shook his head and explained to him: "You only saw our army carrying the water, but you didn't see the Liang army carrying the mountain! What's more, the Wan River is not deep, and you can wade through it on foot.
, it’s not a desperate situation. The two armies are only 50-50 apart in terms of terrain, but in this way, no matter who wins or loses, this battle will be difficult to win."
Having said that, Chen Chong couldn't help but feel heavy when thinking about the importance of this battle.
The gentle autumn breeze blew across the Wan River. The flags of both armies were flapping, obviously the two armies still had to mobilize before the war.
At this time, a short young man suddenly called out. His name was Tian Zhao. Chen Chong heard him say: "Your Majesty, a man from Liang is riding out and patrolling in front of the two armies! He is holding a long spear in his hand, and there is a spear on it.
What are you wearing!"
Chen Chong's heart sank and he asked: "What are you carrying?"
Tian Zhao shook his head and said: "I can't see clearly! But I saw there was a lot of movement over the Baibo Army!"
Chen Chong stood up with a wooden stick and looked. Sergeant Bai Bo was on the right wing of the Liang people, closer to Chen Chong. Chen Chong vaguely saw that their army was in an uproar. There was a man and a horse walking in front of the army, holding something high.
Behind him was a large car, which was gleaming with gold and obviously filled with valuables. After a while, the commotion stopped.
Chen Chong immediately understood that Wang Mao must have been killed in conjunction with the incident, and now together with Jin Yin, Xu Rong used him as a means of both kindness and power.
After all the gold and silver were dispersed in the army, another knight stepped out of the front line of Liang's army, holding a long spear in his hand and galloping back and forth towards the merging troops, obviously showing off his power.
Chen Chong couldn't see clearly, and he quickly sat down again. He felt quite sad and suspicious at the same time. Wang Mao didn't lie to him, he thought. But Wang Mao said that he could persuade most of Bai Bo to return to justice.
In my ears, now that he is dead, what is the attitude of the Baibo soldiers on the left now?