Chapter two hundred and eighty fifth single tree up to the sky
In today's world, there are many people who abandon literature and join the military, but among them, Jia Fu and Jia Junwen are probably the only ones who can bravely conquer the three armies and dominate the world.
Looking at Jia Fu who was bowing to him, Liu Xiu was overjoyed. He stood up quickly, stretched out his hands to help each other, and said sincerely: "Jun Wen helps me, I will be as powerful as a tiger!"
Li Tong, who was standing by, was also startled. He did not expect that Jia Fu would suddenly join his lord.
Jia Fu was helped up by Liu Xiu, and he said with emotion: "My lord and Fu have only been together for a few days, but they know Fu, understand Fu, and trust Fu. Fu is grateful and has nothing to repay. From now on,
I am willing to follow my lord to the death, and I will do whatever it takes to save my life!"
When Liu Xiu heard this, he was also deeply moved and said, "Jia Jun is an extraordinary talent. It's a blessing that Jia Jun is willing to help me!"
Seeing this, Li Tong was happy and relieved at the same time. He was really afraid that Jia Fu would leak the Li family's money.
After Liu Xiu and Jia Fu had parted ways, Li Tong said: "My lord, actually, only a small part of the money of my Li family is hidden in Zhuangzi, and most of it is hidden in the mountains."
Liu Xiu was startled for a moment, and suddenly realized that Li Tong had always been a rigorous person. No wonder he would tell people in public that there was money hidden in Zhuangzi so abruptly today. It turned out that most of the money was not in Zhuangzi.
He asked: "How many people know about this matter?"
Li Tong had a sad look on his face, shook his head and said, "Originally, my father also knew it, but my father..." Li Tong's father, Li Shou, had been killed by Wang Mang.
Liu Xiu patted Li Tong on the shoulder and said, "Ci Yuan, don't touch the money hidden in the mountains for now."
"Yes! Lord!" Li Tong bowed and responded.
Jia Fu suddenly remembered something and said: "My lord, there are currently disagreements within Green Forest about who to choose as the leader of the Han army."
"Oh?" Liu Xiu really didn't know about this. He thought that the opinions within Green Forest were unified.
Jia Fu said: "Most of the people, including Wang Kuang, Wang Feng, Chen Mu, Liao Zhan, and Cheng Dan, are opposed to the general being the leader of the Han army, but General Wang Chang supports the general being the leader of the Han army!"
The reason why Wang Kuang and others were so strongly opposed to Liu Yan becoming the leader of the Han Dynasty, Jia Fu could completely understand their thoughts. Liu Yan was too strong, his foundation was too deep, his reputation was too high, and his reputation was too great. Once Liu Yan became the leader of the Han Dynasty, Wang Kuang and others
All the generals who were born in Green Forest were suppressed by him. It was impossible for Wang Kuang and others to take advantage of Liu Yan.
Wang Chang was considered an outlier from the Green Forest Department. He did not consider the issue of personal gain or loss, but considered it from the perspective of the entire Han army. Liu Yan was the most reasonable and correct choice.
Hearing this, Liu Xiu nodded. Among the main generals of the Green Forest Army, the only one who could make him look at him differently was Wang Chang. He sighed softly and said, "General Wang alone can't stand alone in the Green Forest!"
Wang Kuang, Wang Feng, Chen Mu, Liao Zhan, and Cheng Dan all have similar qualifications to Wang Chang in Green Forest. How could Wang Chang be able to defeat so many people by himself?
In this regard, Jia Fu was also full of helplessness and said with emotion: "People in the green forest are short-sighted and narrow-minded. In times of crisis, we can share hardships, but in times of peace, it is difficult to share wealth and honor."
Later facts proved just how unique Jia Fu's vision was, and what he said at this time was absolutely correct.
Liu Xiu is now at a loss as to who should be the leader of the Han Dynasty. The structure of the Han army is too complicated. Although Liu Han is under the banner of Liu Han, the main body of the Han army is the Green Forest Army.
They chatted for a while and then went back to their rooms to rest.
Early the next morning, before Liu Xiu got up, there was a rapid knock on the door.
Liu Xiu sat up from the bed and said, "Come in."
The door opened, and Long Yuan and Long Zhun quickly walked into the room and said, "Lord."
Liu Xiu asked: "Long Yuan, Long Zhun, what's the matter?"
Long Yuan took two steps forward and whispered: "My lord, Zhang Xun led the army to Wancheng."
Liu Xiu was taken aback and said in amazement: "So fast!" He thought he would have to wait another day or two for Zhang Xun's troops to arrive in Wancheng.
Long Yuan said: "Looking at the state of Zhang Xuan's troops, my subordinates feel that they must have marched overnight and arrived at Wancheng."
"Is there a camp?" Liu Xiu asked with a solemn expression.
"We are not setting up camp. It seems we are planning to attack the city immediately!" Long Yuan said seriously.
Isn't this looking for death? Liu Xiu frowned and marched all night. The whole army was exhausted and did not take any rest. He immediately attacked the city. Zhang Xuan didn't take Cen Peng seriously!
After pondering for a while, Liu Xiu shook his head and said, "I'm afraid this battle will be a disaster. I have to go and see!"
Liu Xiu didn't care about Zhang Xun's life or death, but he couldn't care less about the life and death of the 10,000 soldiers below. Those were 10,000 brothers, and they couldn't all die in Wancheng because of Zhang Xun's stupidity!
He got up from the bed, quickly put on his clothes, and said at the same time: "Long Yuan!"
Long Yuan stepped in to salute and said: "My subordinate is here!"
Liu Xiu said: "Go to the backyard and notify Lihua to prepare to leave."
"Yes! Lord!"
"Long Zhun!"
"My subordinate is here!"
"Go and have someone prepare the carriage, and take Xuying and the others with you to find Jiyuan, dig out the money hidden in Zhuangzi, and take them away with you."
"Yes! Lord!"
Liu Xiu made a series of arrangements and settled everything in Zhuangzi. He took Zhu You alone and rode towards Zhang Xun's army. At this moment, Liu Xiu still hoped in his heart that Zhang Xun was not stupid.
Go and attack the city immediately.
In fact, Zhang Xuan is really that stupid.
Zhang Xun led 10,000 Han troops. After arriving at Wancheng, he had less than two-quarters of an hour to rest before giving the order to attack.
In fact, when he went on the expedition, Zhang Xun's troops had large siege weapons such as trebuchets. However, in order to save time and speed up the march, Zhang Xun left all the large baggage behind. He took 10,000 soldiers with him.
Travel lightly.
Now that he arrived at Wancheng, he couldn't wait for the baggage to arrive, so he immediately issued an order to attack Wancheng.
Under the command of Zhang Xuan, 10,000 Han troops launched a fierce attack on Wancheng.
According to Zhang Xuan's inference, the prefect Zhen Fu and the captain Liang Qiuci are now dead, and the 100,000 troops reinforced by the imperial court have been wiped out. Nanyang County is in name only, and the army guarding Wancheng must have no intention of fighting.
As long as one's side makes a gesture of attacking the city with the whole army and scares the opponent, the defenders in the city will basically surrender.
But in fact, that was not the case at all. When the Han army advanced towards Wancheng City, arrows rained down from the top of the city. Many Han soldiers were walking forward with their heads held high when they were hit by the rain of arrows falling from the sky.
Smashed to the ground.
After all, the soldiers of the Han army have been on the battlefield for a long time and can respond quickly. When they saw the defenders firing arrows, people immediately raised their shields and formed a shield formation to resist the defenders' arrows.
Wancheng is the largest city in Nanyang. There is a moat in a circle outside the city. This moat has become a nightmare for the Han army.
The Han army put a cloud ladder on the moat to make a temporary bridge, but when people tried to run across the ladder, they were shot at by concentrated arrows from the defenders at the top of the city.
The shields in the hands of the Han soldiers could protect the head and vital parts of the upper body, but they could not protect the legs.
The soldiers of the Han army on the ladder were like dropping dumplings. From time to time, someone was hit by an arrow in the leg and fell off the ladder wailing and fell into the moat.
In addition, there are many trebuchets installed in Wancheng, and the stones thrown out hit the moat.
The arrow only shot down one soldier, but the stone thrown by the trebuchet fell on the ladder and immediately broke the ladder. All the soldiers on the ladder fell into the moat.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the moat outside Wancheng City was covered with the corpses of Han soldiers. Most of the Han soldiers were drowned alive.
The defenders in Wancheng resisted so fiercely, something Zhang Xuan never expected.
Seeing that his own soldiers were struggling to even cross the moat of Wancheng, Zhang Xuan became anxious and issued a death order to his men. Even if they fight to the last soldier, they must tear open the city defense of Wancheng.
He himself even led a group of soldiers to personally supervise the battle team and kill the defeated Han soldiers.
Under Zhang Xun's high pressure, the Han soldiers had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to attack Wancheng. People attacked one after another and fell down. Outside Wancheng, corpses were everywhere and blood flowed like a river.
While the Han army was still storming Wancheng, the suspension bridge in front of the city gate suddenly fell. This made the Han army very happy. People rushed to the suspension bridge in a swarm, intending to force the city gate open.
They didn't need to pretend, the city gate had already opened by itself. At the same time, a county army rushed out from the city gate, led by a general named Cen Pengcen Junran.
Cen Junran held a three-pointed two-edged sword in his hand and urged his horse forward, directly onto the suspension bridge. As he walked across it, the Han soldiers on the suspension bridge screamed and fell along both sides of the suspension bridge.
The county troops who followed Cen Peng and rushed out were like chicken blood, roaring and rushing towards the Han army. In an instant, almost all the Han troops who rushed up to the suspension bridge were spared, or they were squeezed off the suspension bridge.
Or be killed by the county army.
The county army headed by Cen Peng passed through the suspension bridge and charged directly into the crowd of Han troops. This county army of thousands of people seemed like a giant fist, hitting the vital points of the Han army.
The Han army, which was going all out to attack the city, could not have expected that the defenders would dare to fight back. They were caught off guard by the sudden attack of the county army, and the Han soldiers who were attacking the city were completely defeated.
Seeing this, Zhang Xun became even more anxious and angrier. He slashed and killed the retreating Han troops, and at the same time shouted: "No retreat! No one is allowed to retreat! Anyone who escapes from the battle will be killed! Kill without mercy!"
At this time, no one listened to his command. He could kill one person, and immediately ten more people came running. After cutting ten people, hundreds more came running. The Han army was defeated like a tide, which could not be stopped.
When Zhang Xun finally realized that his side had no chance of winning in this battle, he and the surrounding soldiers were surrounded by the county army who were chasing them.
Looking at the huge crowds of county troops all around him, Zhang Yan shivered and secretly screamed, but at this moment it was too late for him to break out, as the county troops had completely cut off their retreat.
At the critical moment when Zhang Xun and his soldiers were desperately trying to break out of the encirclement, but could not break out, Liu Xiu arrived in time.
At this time, Liu Xiu could of course ignore Zhang Xun's life and death, gather the defeated Han army, and choose to retreat. However, if he really did this, he would definitely be caught by the Green Forest Department, and even implicate his eldest brother Liu. play.
Liu Xiu only thought about it briefly and shouted: "Rescue Zhang Xuan!" As he spoke, he urged his horse to rush towards the encirclement of the county army. Liu Xiu and Zhu You arrived suddenly, and as soon as they came up, they killed and collided with each other. He tore a big hole in the encirclement of the county army. Liu Xiu rushed inside and shouted loudly: "General Zhang, break out of the encirclement this way quickly!"