Chuzhou City, northwest of Yingtian Mansion, has been "the key to Jinling and the guarantee of Jianghuai" since ancient times. When Anfeng fell and Liu Futong died in battle, Wuxu and Zhao Tong rescued Xiao Ming Wang Han Lin'er and his son Han Kuang to Chuzhou.
Zhu Yuanzhang sent General Liao Yongzhong and 15,000 sergeants to be stationed here. He also had his original Marshal's Mansion in Chuzhou greatly repaired and expanded, and Han Lin'er was placed here.
When Wang Baobao learned that Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang were fighting at Poyang Lake, he took the opportunity to lead the Yuan army of 300,000, and Hualihu's 200,000 troops, one on the left and one on the right, marched straight in, approaching Yingtian Mansion and Hepingjiang Mansion.
A small isolated city like Chuzhou was never in Wang Baobao's eyes. He only divided out 30,000 troops and a few generals to stay and hope to capture it soon.
On the day when the Yuan Dynasty army passed by, Xiao Ming Wang Han Lin'er and Liao Yongzhong went up to the city tower and watched the torrent of iron armor passing through the sky like a roaring mountain and a tsunami.
As the day passed, the four city gates were still tightly guarded. However, the tug-of-war to attack and defend the city had already resulted in the loss of two to three thousand troops.
That night, the original Marshal's Mansion, now the Ming Prince's Mansion, was brightly lit. Han Lin'er was sitting on the throne in the main hall, and Han Kuang stood silently on his left. Below and on the left were the military/general led by Liao Yongzhong and
Important staff, on the right, are some people from the world, dressed in different clothes, but they are members of the White Lotus Cult who have been following Liu Futong.
Since escaping to Chuzhou City and living in Zhu Yuanzhang's Marshal's Mansion, Han Lin'er has obviously lost some weight, her cheeks are fleshless, her cheekbones are slightly convex, and the python robe newly provided by Zhu Yuanzhang looks a bit too big for her.
I saw Han Lin'er, his eyes slightly scanning the left and right below, and then his eyes wandered to the carved railings and paintings on the top of the palace. Without saying a word, his two slender fingers unconsciously tapped lightly on the imperial desk, seeming to be trapped in
In deep thought.
The leader sitting on the left was named Dong Pingshan. He was one of the few elders of the White Lotus Sect who survived the Battle of Anfeng in the Southern Song Dynasty. At this moment, seeing Liao Yongzhong, after waiting for a while, he finally became impatient.
Just as he was about to stand up to speak again, he stood up first and said displeasedly, "General Liao, your duty is to protect Chuzhou and protect King Ming. King Ming will make his own decision on the rest, so why does the general need to comment again and again!"
Liao Yongzhong glanced at Dong Pingshan, and a burst of anger arose in his heart. This man relied on his cultivation level of about the seventh level of the mortal world to become arrogant in the small Chuzhou City. Not only did he accuse himself several times, but he also criticized Bai Lian in the army.
The congregation was gesticulating, but it turned out that the Quanzhen Taoist priest who was accompanying the army went to Mount Lushan on urgent matters.
Then he also stood up, shook his armor, clasped his fists, and said to the little Ming King Han Lin'er above him, "King Ming, the Yuan army went south and cut off the connection between supplies and the direction of Yingtian Mansion. Chuzhou City is already an isolated city. Liao led
The sergeants in the city fought bloody battles day and night. Although they managed to hold on to the city, the casualties were considerable, and the food in the city was only enough for five or six days. If this continued, it might be difficult to hold on, jeopardizing the safety of King Ming. It was better for Liao to reorganize his subordinates and bring food and grass with them.
, to protect King Ming, we took a circuitous path, crossed the river near Zimu Island and landed on the shore, returning to Yingtian Mansion, so King Ming has no worries."
"General Liao, didn't you tell me that our contact with Yingtian Mansion is now cut off, and the Yuan army is fighting across the Yangtze River again. After leaving Chuzhou, our thousands of soldiers and horses are like lost sheep and small boats in the deep sea.
You will encounter the Yuan army anytime and anywhere, fall into Baowei, and die without a burial place." There was a man on the opposite side, dressed as a scholar, shaking a black cattail leaf fan, and asked.
This statement is also true.
Liao Yongzhong frowned slightly, and the generals and staff below him were also silent.
Then Dong Pingshan snorted slightly and said, "General Liao, don't look down on Dong and others. To be honest, Dong previously served as the right-wing general of the Northern Expedition Middle Army. He led tens of thousands of soldiers and fought with the Yuan army no less than thirty times.
, fully aware that when the Yuan army launched a large-scale attack, there were elite iron cavalry sentries for hundreds of miles around the army. A team of ten people, each equipped with two wind-chasing horses, two pots of black iron arrows, steel swords and soft armor,
He is highly skilled in martial arts and even practices martial arts. He also has an alarm bell blessed by the secrets of Lamaism, which can send a message thousands of miles away if he encounters an enemy."
"No wonder our Song Yijun, who are brave and good at fighting, are repeatedly defeated by the Yuan army. It turns out that it is because the Yuan army has such powerful cavalry sentries." A general in the row on the left said.
"What did you say?!" Dong Pingshan and others stood up one after another and glared angrily! Liu Futong made three expeditions to the north with great momentum. Then as the situation took a turn for the worse, he was defeated one by one, and finally retreated to Anfeng. Under heavy siege, he blew himself up.
Triggering the "Four Directions Hell" array. Dong Pingshan and others had been holding back their anger, but now they were ridiculed by a child with a yellow mouth opposite them.
A group of people belonging to Liao Yongzhong also stood up.
"If there's a war, I'm afraid of this and that, so I might as well just wait to die in Chuzhou City!"
"That's it, that's why I'm so afraid of the Yuan army sentries!"
"We don't want to sit back and wait for death. If you don't come to defend Chuzhou City, we'll just kill Tianfu!"
"Everyone—" Han Lin'er withdrew his gaze, raised his broad sleeves, and waved downwards. After they sat down quietly, he turned to Liao Yongzhong and asked, "General Liao, you are just standing alone.
, is indeed inappropriate. But from Chuzhou to Yingtianfu, there is now the Yuan Army in the middle. We also found out that Wang Baobao's tent is north of the Yangtze River, in the Laoshan area between Chuzhou and Yingtianfu. If we wait for thousands
Once the troops and horses are discovered during the march, does General Liao have any good strategy to defeat the enemy?"
Liao Yongzhong smiled bitterly. Of course he knew the danger of abandoning the city, but first of all, most of the more than 10,000 sergeants he brought were from Jiangnan. Now that the Yuan army is attacking Jiangnan, all the sergeants are unstable. Secondly,
Well, this is a secret order sent by a monk sent by Zhu Yuanzhang, saying that the isolated city of Chuzhou cannot be defended for a long time. The current situation in Yingtian Mansion is urgent and the troops are insufficient. It is better to abandon the city and take a circuitous route back to the boundary of Yingtian Mansion to join the main force.
But he couldn't say it, especially in front of everyone, because in the secret order, Zhu Yuanzhang did not mention how to resettle King Xiao Ming. He couldn't say that this was the commander-in-chief's military order, asking the general to lead his troops back to Yingtian Mansion no matter what, you guys
The commander-in-chief did not mention King Xiaoming and others of the Southern Song Dynasty, but Liao just obeyed?
As for King Xiao Ming, although the commander did not mention it, he was the nominal co-leader after all, and if he wanted to lead the army back, he could not be blamed for abandoning his leader and running away. Liao Yongzhong thought about it before he suggested that King Xiao Ming should
They moved with the army. But they never thought that King Xiao Ming would return to Yingtian Mansion with the army, and his safety would become the top priority again.
"It seems that the commander-in-chief didn't mention Prince Xiao Ming for some reason. But he wanted to find a way by himself. It's best to have the best of both worlds. Otherwise, he would have to lead his army away in the end." Liao Yongzhong thought in his mind and mouthed.
The one above slowly replied, "To report to King Ming, after our army reorganized its elite, about ten thousand people came out from the west gate at night. At the same time, the remaining four to five thousand remaining troops were ordered to rush out from the three gates in the southeast and north to confuse the Yuan army.
Afterwards, we avoided the Laoshan area, detoured westward, passed through Quanjiao, and then turned back. We traveled quickly all night. If nothing unexpected happened, we would arrive at Zimuzhou at dawn. At the moment, the Yuan army was at Xiaguan, Yanziji, and Huangtiandang.
, attack with all strength in the Qixia Mountain area. If we plan carefully and act quickly, we will have five or six levels of confidence in this turn."
"Fifth or sixth floor? General Liao, King Ming has a body worth millions of gold. How can we let King Ming be in such danger?!" The people on the right suddenly shouted in a loud voice.
Han Lin'er sat there and waved again, and there was another silence in the hall. Han Kuang, who was on his left, suddenly said, "General Liao, go out with all four gates to confuse the enemy and turn back. It's a good idea. But Chuzhou City and
Laoshan, Laoshan and Yingtian Mansion are all close at hand. If I were Wang Baobao and heard that General Liao had abandoned the city, I would send a team of soldiers and horses from the Laoshan camp from east to west to capture Quanjiao.
, cut off the north-south passage, how should General Liao respond?"
As soon as Han Kuang said this, someone below and on the right clapped his hands and shouted, "That's it! When the time comes, will General Liao attack southward or retreat to Chuzhou City?"
"Hmph! I'm afraid Chuzhou City will have been lost by then!"
Liao Yongzhong was shocked in his heart. He looked up at the five-year-old Han Kuang above, but he didn't expect that this young man could have such an insight. He blurted out and asked, "From Chuzhou to the Yangtze River area, there are many mountains and roads.
It is a mobile battle. If Wang Baobao arranges it like this, he may not send out 50,000 to 60,000 troops to encircle our army. But his strategic intention is to Yingtian Mansion, will he send out these 50,000 to 60,000 elite troops?"
The implication is that Wang Baobao did not believe that he would detach a large army to weaken the offensive against Tianfu for the sake of a small Chuzhou, a little Ming king who did not live up to his name.
You must know that on that day, Wang Baobao led his army southward. When he passed by Chuzhou, he paid no attention to it. He just divided 30,000 troops and placed them east of Chuzhou before leaving. Liao Yongzhong had been guarding the city for the past few days and could clearly see that the people besieging the city were
, there was never more than 20,000 yuan. Obviously, the main intention of the 30,000 yuan army was not in Chuzhou City. It is estimated that the more important thing was to ensure the supply of food and grass for the army ahead.
I saw Han Kuang, standing next to the dragon chair, calmly and with a childish voice, and said, "General Liao, I must have noticed that the 30,000 yuan army has not attacked our Chuzhou City with all its strength in the past few days.
, you must also see that its main responsibility is to ensure that the army’s food channels are smooth.”
Liao Yongzhong nodded slightly, but Han Kuangfu asked again, "But when Wang Baobao's army passed through Chuzhou that day, why didn't he capture Chuzhou in one fell swoop to completely eliminate future troubles? In this way, only 10,000 sergeants were needed to guard the front-line grain road in Chuzhou.
Twenty thousand people can go south with the army."
Liao Yongzhong, looking up at the moment, pondered for a moment, and replied cautiously, "Wang Baobao will take advantage of the battle between the commander-in-chief and Chen Youliang at Poyang Lake to march thousands of miles straight to Yingtian Mansion. As the saying goes, soldiers are very fast, even though Chuzhou City is a small projectile.
There are only 20,000 soldiers in this land, but to capture it, I am afraid it will take a day's effort, because his 300,000-strong army marches abreast on multiple roads. In fact, there are not 300,000 who pass through Chuzhou City, but at most 70,000 or 80,000.
"
"General Liao is worthy of being a veteran on the battlefield, as I expected." Han Kuang stared at Liao Yongzhong with his bright eyes, showing off, "But -"
Han Kuang and Liao Yongzhong were answering one-on-one here, and everyone in the palace looked at each other. Although Han Kuang, the young prince, usually seemed smart and smart, he was only five years old after all. How could he understand military and state affairs? Everyone in the palace couldn't help but look at each other.
Xiao Ming Wang Han Lin'er looked at Han Lin'er, thinking that Han Lin'er had instructed him to say it, but unexpectedly he saw that Han Lin'er was also looking at Han Kuang in surprise.
He saw Dong Pingshan again, with a suspicious look on his face. He glanced towards the top of the hall for a few times. He released his spiritual consciousness and scanned around the hall, but found nothing. So he had to suppress his guess and looked around.
Watch Han Kuang and wait until Han Kuang fails. What else can you say?
Han Kuang smiled shyly, shook his head, and continued, "However, Wang Baobao's leapfrog tactic has another purpose."
Oh? Leap-frog tactic?! Is this Han Kuang’s childlike original creation?
Everyone was talking a lot.
But he saw Han Kuang, suddenly turned aside, took a few steps back, bowed to Xiao Ming Wang Han Lin'er, and then stood up to face the people below, "My father is the king of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Liu Laocheng passed on the White Lotus Order that day.
In fact, he is the common master of the world. Wang Baobao arranged this, but his ultimate intention was to capture my father alive and seize the White Lotus Order, a sacred object of the White Lotus Sect."
Liu Futong entrusted the White Lotus Order to Wu Xu for safekeeping that day. This matter was extremely secretive. In addition to Pan Ruoxue from Dongji Island, there were Zhao Tong, Han Lin'er, and Han Kuang's father and son. Someone had asked about it before, but Han Lin'er and Han Kuang said they didn't know.
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Now, Han Kuang mentioned it himself. Thinking about it, he was afraid that if he leaked the news before, he would be remembered by others. You must know that the White Lotus Order is made from the relics of the real monks of the White Lotus Sect, and its power is infinite. At the same time, it is also the Holy Spirit of the White Lotus Sect.
On that day, Han Shantong, Liu Futong used this to gather believers from all over the world, hold a forum to preach, and plot to start an uprising. Later, Han Lin'er was made emperor, the country was named Song Dynasty, and his capital was Bozhou. At every grand ceremony, Liu Futong would hold the White Lotus Order and lead the civil and military forces.
Hundreds of officials and thousands of members of the White Lotus Sect are chanting sutras and chanting mantras. Some say that the White Lotus Order has channeled spirits, and some say that holding the White Lotus Order can command all the White Lotus members in the world...
Just hearing a plop, Dong Pingshan suddenly led a group of White Lotus followers and knelt on the ground, "We are willing to go through fire and water to protect King Ming and the White Lotus Holy Order, even if we die." Immediately, all the White Lotus followers inside and outside the hall, whether servants or soldiers,
, all fell to their knees on the ground, chanting Amitabha Buddha and various White Lotus Sect slogans.
Suddenly, in the main hall, there was a white lotus shadow rising out of thin air. The petals bloomed continuously from the middle, as if endless. As the petals bloomed, everyone felt a huge power coming from the sky.
,stronger.
Dong Pingshan and others had been kneeling on the ground for a long time, but they didn't think anything of it. Then Liao Yongzhong and others stood there, their expressions constantly changing, and in the end they even smiled and knelt down to the white lotus in the middle of the hall.
, hands clasped together, extremely pious.
When Bai Lian dispersed, everyone stood up one by one. Liao Yongzhong was the first to step out of the queue. He bowed to Xiao Ming Wang Han Lin'er and said with great respect, "I don't know, what is your mission, King Ming?"
Xiao Ming Wang Han Lin'er was stunned for a moment, as if happiness had come too quickly. But when he saw Han Kuang, he took a step forward and said, "Reorganize your subordinates quickly. At midnight tonight, we will leave the city from the north gate and ambush the enemy's food road."
"Yes!" Liao Yongzhong accepted the order suddenly and led his subordinates to retreat.
"Elder Dong," Han Kuang called Dong Pingshan again when he saw Liao Yongzhong retreating. Although his voice was crisp and small, it conveyed a sense of majesty and mystery.
Dong Pingshan, who was making all kinds of speculations in his mind, bowed hastily with a solemn look on his face.
"You lead the members of our sect to ten meters inside the Sifang City Gate, open an altar and do the ritual, drip the essence and blood on the object, wait until it turns red, and bury it in the soil. Then within an hour, return to the main hall.
Listen to the order." Four small black flags appeared in front of Han Jian and flew into Dong Pingshan's hand.
The four small black flags were very ordinary. They looked like they were hastily made of ordinary black cloth. There was no border around them. The flagpoles were neither wood nor gold. They were light and fluttering in the hand. Suddenly, Dong Pingshan felt a pain in his heart. A flag
A beard on his hand suddenly became extremely sharp, piercing a small hole in his palm. A drop of blood poured out, stained the black flag, and turned into a small purple-black dot. A trembling spirit,
He hurriedly distributed the four black flags to everyone. Then he hurried away.
In the empty and deep hall, except for a few palace maids, only Han Lin'er and his son were left. A graceful figure slowly walked in from the door of the hall.
When Han Kuang saw him, he shouted excitedly and ran forward, "Aunt Zhao, is it really you!?"
Han Lin'er stared blankly at the woman who was getting closer and closer. It took her a long time to wake up, and she quickly stood up, "Miss Zhao!"
The enchanting woman in white gauze smiled slightly at Han Lin'er, then leaned over to face Han Kuang who was running over. While stroking the black hair on the top of Han Kuang's head, she whispered in a low voice, "You have guessed it a long time ago, right?
"The gestures and gestures were full of charm. Han Lin'er was standing by, watching intently, and listening to her in a state of ecstasy.
Han Kuang replied with a smile, "Aunt Zhao, your voice is still so nice. Kuang'er has always remembered it in his heart since he heard it in the Black Dragon Hall of Anfeng." Then he grabbed Zhao Tong's arm and shook it.
"Aunt Zhao, what is the leapfrog tactic? As soon as I said it just now, they all stared at it and didn't understand it at all."
Zhao Tong laughed heartily. After a while, he patted Han Kuang's head lovingly. Fang took Han Kuang's hand again and walked to Han Lin'er who had already gone down to the hall. He looked at her for a few times and said, "The pleasure of fish and water is good.
, we also need to be a little more restrained. The hatred of the country and the family, and the great cause of our religion, can't King Ming forget it?"
Han Lin'er smiled coquettishly, cupped his hands and replied, "Han Lin'er doesn't dare. Miss Zhao just asked Kuang'er to make arrangements. I wonder if she can be sure? What will we do if we rob the Yuan army's food and grass?"
Zhao Tong waved his hand and captivated all the maids in the palace. Then he opened his red lips and said decisively, "I have inquired clearly that the Yuan army will have a large group of grain and grass passing through Chuzhou tonight. After the robbery, the army will go north.
Enter Hongze Lake!"
It was midnight, and the north gate of Chuzhou City slowly opened. More than 10,000 sergeants quietly left the city and went straight to the Yuan army's tent in the north of the city. Zhao Tong opened the way in front, and all the secret sentry posts were killed one by one.
, disappeared into the deep night. More than 10,000 elite troops led by Liao Yongzhong descended the mountain like tigers. Many Yuan troops rushed to the underworld in their sleep.
It was night, Wang Baobao was in the big tent at Fenghuang Mountain in Laoshan, reading the military documents of the past few days in detail. Suddenly there was an urgent call, and a sergeant gasped, reporting that the army's food and grass had been robbed near Chuzhou.
Wang Baobao flew out of the big tent and looked dozens of miles ahead. He saw the horizon, filled with demonic energy, and a female figure flying to the north. He frowned slightly, "Zhao Tong? She actually went down to the Demon Prisoner Peak in Lushan Mountain?"
After flying to the vicinity of Chuzhou, Wang Baobao suddenly saw the city gates on all sides of Chuzhou City were wide open. There were strong winds and black clouds. The Yuan troops who broke in fell to the ground as soon as they stepped through the city gates. Wang Baobao snorted softly.
, sacrificing the vajra that he had fought with Wuxu across the sky before, and recited the mantra, the prayer wheel glowed with golden light. Accompanied by the sound of chanting, it transformed into a hundred-foot-sized one, like a spear, and pierced Chuzhou.
The boundary of Prince Ming's Mansion in the city. Prince Ming's Mansion collapsed suddenly, and then four palm-sized black flags were seen flying into the air near the four gates of Chuzhou City and disappearing.
Wang Baobao formed a seal with his hands again, a red light flashed on his forehead, and a golden light shot towards the north. However, he saw the four black flags fluttering in the distance on the horizon, and thousands of black lights hanging down, covering Han Lin'er, Liao Yongzhong and others.
All his subordinates were covered. Suddenly, Zhao Tong at the front turned around and waved his sleeves. Black gauze covered the sky, and the scene in front of him disappeared.
She is actually in the Demon Refining Army?! Wang Baobao was shocked in his heart. After thinking about it, he sent the order. Then, the Yuan army along the Yangtze River slowly retreated.
As the saying goes
Little Han Kuang talks about the great road, and the faint white lotus is lost in spirit.
Even if the enemy army learns how to jump frog, how can they know that my aunt's technique is wonderful?