One hundred and fortieth chapters Tigers (17)(1/3)
"This should be Xu Shiren?"
It was still on the middle of the earth. After the newly formed wall, Xue Changxiong looked at the sour scene on the battlefield ahead and turned his head to consult.
It turned out that although a corner of the thief chess camp in front was broken, the other four battalions still rely on the soil-cultivated plate house to maintain the front line, and maintained the basic battle situation with the official army that set up the plate house on the soil mountain. Only the commander-in-chief on the front line who was in charge of crossbowmen was obviously replaced, and the same broken river true energy, and the same amazing archery technique, but even more powerful.
Not to mention the soldiers who threw torches on the front lines, even the officers on the earthen mountain showed their heads as soon as they were exposed.
This of course immediately reminds people of an expected master of helping Chengdan who was exposed yesterday because of threats to Pyeongchang City, namely Xu Shiren, the hero of Lu County.
"It's him." Murong Zhengyan blurted out. "He was older than me, but he entered the pass in the same year and worked together in Daxing for several years. Later, I first sent the general manager to Longxi, and never met again... but I still recognized this method."
Xue Changxiong narrowed his eyes slightly, and his thoughts ran away inexplicably.
Speaking of which, although Murong Zhengyan was famous in the world and had been in all directions and south when the Murong family was prosperous, their main veins and basic experiences were all in Hebei. When Dongqi was destroyed, Murong Zhengyan was brought to Guanxi. He was essentially the same as other powerful people with high cultivation, which was to flatten the local area and bring the capable people of Dongqi over to centralize management and constraints.
However, the Great Wei Dynasty had to be divided into three or six grades. Not to mention the old Jin clan, even the former place of Dongqi, the Murong family was given a little more preferential treatment than those of Xu Shiren because of their family... The transformation period was short and the promotion was faster. After finding that the career of the officialdom was difficult to progress, they could go back to their hometown in Hebei early to settle down.
Even thinking about it again, Murong Zhengyan clearly only advanced to become a pill last year, which made the gap even more obvious.
It's the standard second-rate five.
However, now the Great Wei River is declining, and it is here in Hebei. Whether it is Xue Changxiong, Li Cheng from Youzhou next door, or as famous families in Guanlong, they have to face the problem of local forces in Hebei being ready to move. Second-No. 5 must pay attention to it.
Otherwise, if you accidentally get the host and the guest.
Of course, for General Xue, who was born in the core family of Guanlong, he naturally wouldn't even think about it. However, when he had a chaotic battle with Zhang San here yesterday, he was a little confused about the other party's words... He didn't believe it himself, and the battle window has only passed one-third, and he still had enough methods, just worried that the other people in the formation would be unstable.
"What is that?" Just as Xue Changxiong was thinking about it, the marching Sima Chen Bin suddenly pointed to a camp in the west and asked. "Is it smoked? Our fire attack has a great effect?"
Everyone turned their heads in surprise and saw that the west side of the first row of the thief army chessboard camp, which was the closest to the city of Banxian County, had already been smoky, far exceeding the small fireworks that were throwing torches in the rest of the places. Moreover, just as everyone went to see, the smoke was visible to the naked eye. In a moment, open flames appeared in their sight, as if they were rolling up some wooden materials and houses in the camp... The soldiers in the camp were also panicked... The thief army in the front house even began to evacuate.
On the earthen mountain, the generals looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Logically speaking, after fighting for a few days, I finally got two corners of it. Of course, it was a good thing, but the sudden effect of the fire attack seemed to be a bit off guard, especially after yesterday's war. Although it was not seen overall, in fact, many senior officers here seemed to be a little depressed.
"General." At this moment, General Wang Yu of the Central Army was the first to react and speak. "This village is full of fireworks, and the bandits have actually given up. The fire will be clean later. It is natural to send troops forward to occupy it. But compared with it... there are only three camps left in the first row of the bandits, which is difficult to connect. Why not concentrate the troops, break through the center, and then take down the village in the middle, isolate the other two camps. Can the first row of camps be eliminated?"
Xue Changxiong was a little surprised, but he immediately asked: "Is General Wang going?"
"Please take the lead in attacking from the front, and then send the two armies to fall into the chessboard formation and fight to the left and right... The last general is willing to be one of them." Wang Yu did not hesitate and formally invited the battle.
"Okay!" Xue Changxiong cheered up and turned around and ordered. "Lao Liu, you and General Wang will send troops to assist General Murong to take down this camp!"
The sixth brother Xue Wancheng immediately bowed his head and said the order. Murong Zhengyan caught him off guard, but he could only agree quickly... After all, it was indeed a sudden emergence of fighter jets and should not be relaxed.
Moreover, who made me humble and admitted that I had an old age with Xu Shiren on the other side and knew the other party’s methods?
Like yesterday afternoon, the war suddenly became tense, and a large-scale offensive organized in a hurry due to a fire in the military camp took shape quickly.
At the same time, the army seemed to realize the problem and reacted very fiercely. Not only did a battalion of soldiers hurried to the open space directly behind the middle camp for preparatory support, the camps on both sides and the camps on the rear also transferred their troops to the flanks to prepare for attack. What's more, the red-bottomed "demo" flag moved forward voluntarily and came to a camp in the second row, staring at Xue Wancheng's troops.
Obviously, the Xue flag attracted the army.
Xue Changxiong was a little uneasy and turned around and ordered Chen Bin: "Sima Chen will prepare, dispatch the departments to the Tushan to wait for orders, and be ready to support at any time... Don't forget to let the outstanding people of the officers of each department gather forward."
Chen Bin nodded, but took a look at the burning camp in the west and stopped talking, but he finally left in a hurry.
The battle began to become fierce below, and the density of crossbow arrows and the volume of shouting and killing were significantly increased, but on the earthen mountain, the generals of the official army were a little distracted.
After a while, for some reason, many people began to get anxious.
"General."
At this moment, Cao Shancheng, the governor of Qinghe County, suddenly stood up and reminded him seriously. "Is there too much smoke in the camp on fire?"
Xue Changxiong closed his gaze from his sixth son in front, turned his head to look west, and observed carefully. Sure enough, as Cao Shancheng reminded, the fire was real fire, but the smoke was too thick, and the largest smoke did not occur from the surroundings of the multi-layer continuous house in front, but it was more like a continuous emergence from the back of a collapsed house in the center of the village... "Are there any reserve sections and supplies piled up there?" Feng Duan, the chief general, asked in surprise.
"Not like it." Qian Tang, the governor of Pingyuan County, replied with his eyes narrowed. "No matter how much it piles, it should be that there is more open fire than green smoke... there is too much smoke over there."
"What do you mean?" Xue Wanbi couldn't help but ask after hearing this for a moment. "Is this firework strange? They deliberately set fires to lure us? Want to eat Lao Liu?"
"Not..." Feng Duan shook his head and denied. "How did they know that we would definitely send troops? But their camp must have been destroyed..."
"But this cigarette..."
"So, unless they are sure that there are some results, the fireworks will be just an abnormality and there is no other way to say it?"
Everyone was talking about it, and they couldn't figure it out for a moment.
But no matter what, the feeling of anxiety has gone to the next level.
"Will there be a fraud?" At this moment, Chen Bin, who was dispatching troops from behind, spoke far away. "General, I asked a few prisoners yesterday... Some of them said that there seemed to be something abnormal in the middle of the front row camps, and there were often leaders entering and leaving. Once they entered, they would take a long time... Isn't the smoke today also the most western village at the center?"
Xue Changxiong was stunned. He was already very alert and almost stood upside down, scolding him on the spot: "Why did you say yesterday's incident today? How did you do the Sima, the military supervisor?!"
Chen Bin lost his voice on the spot.
"Go quickly!" Xue Changxiong immediately pointed at the other party with a horse whip. "Retreat the troops on the westernmost earthy mountain! The thief is likely to be digging tunnels!"
Chen Bin was stunned for a moment and turned around and horse immediately.
However, Xue Changxiong rebuked on the spot: "What other demeanor is needed at this time? You have been the desolation of the elixir for many years! Will you jump over it?"
Chen Bin did not dare to say much, and hurriedly rolled up a stream of water-blue true energy, jumped up, and soon came to the westernmost earthy mountain.
At this time, Cao Shancheng came to persuade: "General, we have just built up several earthen mountains for hundreds of thousands of people. How did the other party dig so quickly for a few days? It was really a smoke from the passage. Maybe it was just that they were anxious and accidentally burned the support inside..."
"You know what's the matter!" Xue Changxiong looked excited. "Our earth mountain was built in a hurry. When ramming the earth, it was just slightly compacted from the back, with a steep front and a slow back, which was easy to collapse... Can you be lucky in this situation?"
Everyone was silent and went to see the west side.
At this moment, Xue Wanbi couldn't help but become anxious: "Sima Chen really misled the matter... The father and commander trusted him so much!"
"It's not... although it was a mistake, he himself was still loyal, reliable and capable..." Xue Changxiong waved his hand quickly, and at this point, he couldn't help but turn his head to see the war ahead. At this time, the general regretted launching a rash attack.
On the other side, Chen Bin came to the west of the Tushan Mountain, without saying much, but just ordered the generals and their subordinates to retreat in an orderly manner. Then he couldn't help but look down on the steep slope in front of the Tushan Mountain, and then was shocked on the spot.
It turned out that there was already some disintegration on the steep slope on the south side of the Tushan Mountain, and even a trace of blue smoke appeared and faintly appeared in a crack.
So far, the Sima of the Army Supervisor didn't know how Xue Changxiong was right. The other party had indeed dug a tunnel, and the wood supporting it was already burning down... At this point, Chen Bin's face turned pale because it seemed to confirm his guilt of slacking off last night. But after everyone went back last night, Xue Changxiong didn't even open a military discussion, and everyone's senior generals were almost exhausted. Why should he put this matter on his head in public?
Moreover, just now scolding and humiliating myself in public?
At this time, the soldiers of the garrison officers and soldiers next to them also noticed something was wrong, but they noticed it from Chen Sima's military orders and expressions, and then looked forward one after another. Of course, there were many smart people who woke up instantly, and then fled immediately without any effort, and some even shouted out.
The riots formed immediately.
At this time, Chen Bin came to his senses and couldn't help but be furious. He could even imagine how Xue Changxiong, who was on a mountain, would count this matter to him.
But I didn't have time to think about anything else. At this moment, I don't know whether it was because of the reckless escape of many people during the riot, or the wooden support in the tunnel below was already burning to the end. Suddenly, the entire mountain shook on the spot.
Chen Bin was also scared and wanted to jump up.
However, whether he or the soldiers around him, he soon realized that the Tushan Mountain had just shook for a while, and it was not as collapsed as expected.
Only the fortifications on the hill were suddenly turned a little distorted.
Seeing this, Chen Bin laughed, and temporarily suppressed his previous emotions and comforted the soldiers a little: "What are you panic? I don't hide it from you. The thief dug up the tunnel, but he obviously never worked as a miner. Our earthen mountain is solid..."
Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, he felt dizzy again, and then found himself leaning to the side.
In panic, Chen Sima did not dare to hesitate anymore, so he jumped up on the spot and walked towards the gentle slope behind. At this moment, he turned back in the air and clearly saw that half of the mountain cracked from the middle like a knife cut, and then slid down toward the steep surface on the south side. Some buildings on the mountain were torn and turned over in the process. Many soldiers were like ants released on the soil, but had no ants' grip. They just fell into it on the spot, and they could not help but screamed in fear.
Chen Bin landed on the gentle slope, staring at the collapsed earth mountain that was almost collapsed to the fire camp opposite, and was about to say something to the stunned soldiers around him, but unexpectedly, the front slipped again, and another small piece of soil was overturned, burying many wailing soldiers below.
Seeing this, the Southern Chen royal family and the Sima, the general of the Hejian camp of the Great Wei Dynasty, was completely disheartened.
But it's not over yet.
The collapse of this earth mountain was like a signal. The thief chess board in front suddenly waved flags on the stage, drums and horns were heard. The camps opened the door together, and the thieves cheered and shouted and killed the sky. Almost the entire army rushed to the front line, which was stunned and rushed towards the official army.
The thief's main banner formed a true qi army formation on the spot, and then ignored it, rushed out of the camp with the soldiers around him to Xue Wancheng's troops.
It is like taking this opportunity to work hard to cause damage.
In sharp contrast, there were three armies on the front line. They were shocked by the collapse of the earth and mountain on the back and were almost stunned. At this time, the thieves were fighting back against each other and almost couldn't stand... Seeing this scene, Chen Bin instinctively turned his head to see the direction of the earth and mountain in the middle, which was the habitual viewing of the battle. However, the earth and mountain where he was located had collapsed. He was in a low ground and could not see the situation clearly. He could only see the earth and mountain in the middle. The soldiers and officers were all panicked and were abandoning the mountain and fleeing.
Following the figures of these escaped people, Chen Sima simply turned around and looked east and tried hard to look. Sure enough, he saw soldiers on the other few earthen mountains running from the gentle slope. Even if Xue Changxiong was located, there were few people who escaped from the central earthen mountains, and it still formed a scale. What's more serious is that the fleeing troops almost pushed and shoved with the reinforcements gathered at the foot of the mountain behind him, and the reinforcements were also timid for a moment, and even clever snatched back slowly before the military order was passed.
Obviously, in a short period of time, these earthen mountains have quickly changed from a condescending and safer strike area to a taboo representing death for the officers and soldiers.
Chen Bin stood there in a daze, feeling a strong sense of fear and shame.
Of course, there is no need to say much about fear. He could fully imagine General Xue’s anger at this time.
This person is the leader of the Guanlong army. He has gradually become rude because he has been together for a long time and only regards himself as a vassal. Now he is angry and attributes the inevitable losses at this time to his own family. I am afraid he will not know what humiliation will be.
As for shame... it is ridiculous to say, it comes from this fear. This is not a word to play with, but rather that when things come to an end, the legacy of the Southern Chen royal family clearly sensed his fear of being angry with Xue Changxiong... He always thought that he was from the Southern Dynasty royal family, and he saw things clearly and looked at them more clearly than anyone else's posture. He just went with the flow and played calmly in troubled times.
However, when he faced Xue Changxiong's possible anger and humiliation, he was surprised to find that his first instinct was fear, which made him feel great shame.
Of course, Xue Changxiong didn't know how his confidant had a Southern Chen noble disease there. He stood on the middle of the earthen mountain and had already been furious by the situation.
You know, the collapse of the Tushan Mountain is definitely not a point of direct injury... He could even imagine that those casualties were probably less than an offensive last night, at most, a few hundred people could stand on the hill?
But at this moment, under the collapse of the landslide, the impact of the casualties was seized by the thieves on the opposite side, and magnified to the extreme, which made the entire army feel timid and then fell into crisis.
I had a mountain in my own house and had to kill dozens of people in a hurry, but I couldn't stop the rest from evacuating Tushan, let alone other places? Not to mention the blocked reinforcements behind?
This is what is really fatal.
After taking a deep breath, General Xue suppressed all kinds of emotions and once again burst out the "big sun". Then he waved the straight knife in his hand and ordered the high-level officers around him:
"Follow me, and see that little dog in power for a while!"
To be continued...