On December 23, the ninth year of Kaiyuan, it was a very cold winter day, and the snow in Jeju was several feet deep.
At the top of Shangyuan County City, Chen Hongyu was wearing armor and sitting on the top of the city wall. The red cloud sword in his arms was flowing with mana, and the sword light condensed in his body was constantly moving back and forth between the body and the sword with the mana.
"I always feel that it is not necessary for the Seven Killers Army to capture Shangyuan County!"
Chen Hongyu didn't know the specific situation at this time, so he could only hope that Fan Liang, the prefectural governor, would work harder and capture Zhu County or Danyang County to share some of the pressure on Shangyuan County.
At this time, there were not only a large number of civilians in Shangyuan County, but also nearly 20,000 soldiers. Fortunately, the Seven Killing Army was revolting in winter, and all the food had been collected. Plus the food stored in previous years, Shangyuan County could at least
Hold on for several months.
The most critical thing is to hold on under the offensive of hundreds of thousands of killing troops outside the city.
"Sir, it's time to eat!" At this moment, a little maid walked up to the top of the city carrying a food box and came to Chen Hongyu's side.
"Eat!" At this moment, an idea flashed in Chen Hongyu's mind. It was already approaching noon, and the Seven Killers outside the city numbered at least hundreds of thousands of people. According to usual rules, there must be smoke billowing from the cooking pots at this time.
"Could it be that the Seven Killers Army has already withdrawn?" The more Chen Hongyu thought about it, the more likely it became that it was possible. Originally, he thought that the Seven Killers Army did not go into action just because of the heavy snow, but now it seems that is obviously not the case.
"No more, Xiaocui, go and tell my father that the Seven Killers Army may have withdrawn outside the city!"
With that said, Chen Hongyu quickly got off the city wall, ordered more than a thousand fine men and rode out of the county city all the way towards the Seven Killing Army camp.
"Sir, did the Seven Killers really retreat? Yang Zheng didn't believe it. After all, the Seven Killers outside the city had been entering the camp in large numbers every day in the past few days, and they were attacking the county town one after another.
"Not sure!" Chen Hongyu said, looking at the camp getting closer and closer in the distance: "That's why we went to investigate. There are no cavalry in the Seven Kills Army outside the city. When we break the entrance to the Seven Kills Army's camp, if it is
If you deliberately lure us into taking the bait, we can still retreat in time. If it is true that we have retreated, then we will go and investigate."
Not long after, Chen Hongyu led more than a thousand cavalry to the vicinity of the camp.
After giving the order to stop within the range of the bow and arrow, Chen Hongyu used the military energy method and received the blessing of the military energy gathered by more than a thousand fine cavalry.
"Cut!" With the blessing of military energy, a sword flew out and directly cut open the seemingly indestructible entrance to the camp, revealing the empty camp inside.
"Sir, there is no one!" Yang Zheng is at the second level of Fate Dao. He has a strong body and the strongest eyesight, so he can see the most clearly: "At least there are not many people at the entrance of the Seven Killing Army camp."
"Come with me!" Chen Hongyu glanced at the scene at the entrance of the military camp, feeling increasingly unhappy.
He led more than a thousand cavalrymen all the way in, but encountered little resistance at all.
There are only a few soldiers still patrolling the empty camp. The total number of remaining soldiers in the entire camp is only more than 2,000. Most of them are injured and injured, and most of the remaining soldiers are injured.
Patrolling the wooden walls of the camp.
"It's dangerous over there in Zhoumu!" Chen Hongyu let out a long sigh.
It seemed that his original hunch was correct. The number of the Seven Killers in this camp was not large to begin with, only twenty to thirty thousand at most. However, he did not know what method was used to create a large movement of hundreds of thousands of people.
"It doesn't make sense. If the number of people can be disguised by an army constantly coming in and out, but how could the military atmosphere above the camp be faked when the soldiers in the camp went out for exercise a few days ago?" Chen Hongyu was puzzled.
He was quite sure that the original number of people in this camp was at most twenty or thirty thousand.
If there is too much, the movement of the Seven Killing Army will be insignificant when it evacuates last night. If there is too little, it will not be able to create the fierce siege situation as in the past few days.
At this moment, soldiers from Shangyuan County swarmed in. Zhou Qi rode a white war horse to Chen Hongyu and said with emotion: "I'm afraid Jeju is going to be doomed!"
Chen Hongyu was silent for a moment and said: "Father, we should retreat to the city quickly, and check out the news from Zhou Mu to see if we can respond. After this battle, Jeju has completely lost the ability to fight again, and even has some remaining power.
I’m afraid most of the five counties cannot be defended.”
"That's fine!" Zhou Qi looked back at the empty camp and the soldiers who were surrendering, and said with emotion: "The local garrison was already lax in its armaments, and after this battle, it suffered even more serious losses. The remaining five Jeju soldiers
The county can only keep two counties at most. We in Shangyuan County were originally abandoned, but we didn't expect to survive because of a blessing in disguise.
If we persist for another three days, the border troops will be able to reach Jeju."
After that, Zhou Qi and Chen Hongyu led the soldiers back to the city.
Sure enough, news came in the afternoon that Fan Liang, the governor of the state, led an army of 100,000 to attack Zhujun, but was defeated by the Seven Killers Army who set up an ambush halfway. The Jeju Army suffered heavy casualties and fled.
In the end, Fan Liang led more than 20,000 people back to the state to govern Jizhong County, and reduced his troops and completely abandoned the other three counties.
On the night of December 23rd of the ninth year of Kaiyuan, the news came back to Yujing. Yang Bin was furious and ordered General Yin Zheng to rush to Jeju to lead the border troops to destroy the Seven Killing Army.
The next day, the Seven Killers Army completely invaded Jeju, sweeping away civilians along the way and snatching food and grass. All the original damage was made up for. After Lu Zhiying finished all this, he withdrew to Zhujun and Danyang County again.
On December 25, the ninth year of Kaiyuan, the frontier army finally arrived in Jeju, followed by General Yin Zheng who came from Yujing.
"General, where should we go first?"
At the border of Jeju, a general rode up to Yin Zheng.
"Shangyuan!"
"But the governor of Jeju is in Jizhong County. Wouldn't it be good for us to go to Shangyuan first?" The general still had some concerns.
Although the border troops have been fighting with the barbarians on expeditions all year round, there are many unruly people, and most of them have a look-down mentality when facing the local garrison.
"A bunch of scum with low combat effectiveness!"
But for high-ranking officials such as state, animal husbandry and county guards, they still have to abide by the rules.
After all, there are some local officials who can shut up just by cultivating their sexual nature, regardless of what it means to be an official.
Yin Zheng looked back at him and said with a smile: "The fall of Jeju this time was all due to Fan Liang. At the beginning of the Seven Killers' rebellion, he should have started to integrate Jeju's military and political affairs to prepare for the Seven Killers' westward advance.
As a result, when the Seven Kills Army occupied two counties first, they were actually prepared to directly abandon Shangyuan County, a large and important county. In the end, they lost ground and were deceived by the Seven Kills Army, which destroyed the Jeju garrison in one fell swoop."
Looking at the general leaving, Yin Zheng narrowed his eyes.
In fact, the responsibility this time does not entirely lie with Fan Liang, but this Zhou Mu, who comes from an ordinary background, is the best candidate selected by all parties to take the blame.
If something of this magnitude happens, someone has to take the blame.