Chapter 171: Famous General Zhu Zhao [Lifting the Ban]
Although he was seriously injured, Song Junlin's mind was still clear. Although the Bai'er Army was elite, there were no generals in the army, and seeing that he was seriously injured, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers would inevitably decline. Neither Zhu Zhao nor Yan Lege were easy to do.
Sir, under such circumstances, it is impossible to reverse the situation, let alone annihilate the enemy. As for the strategic materials in the camp, since they cannot be taken away, they cannot be left to the Holy Sect of Paradise for reinforcement.
The opponent's strength was worse than burning it with fire. As soon as he finished speaking, Song Junlin, who had been struggling to hold on, finally couldn't hold on anymore and fainted.
Although Song Zhengdong was not a general, as a veteran soldier who had been in the army for decades, his advantage was that he could unswervingly execute orders. He personally led 20,000 soldiers to set fire while blocking the enemy, and desperately protected the large group of troops.
Withdraw to the west. At this time, the rigidity and rigor of traditional soldiers were finally demonstrated. No matter how Zhu Zhao attacked, they were blocked by the White Ear Legion who led him with good military qualities. Instead, the White Ear Legion warriors broke their wrists and set fire to
, causing hundreds of casualties to the Holy Sect of Paradise, which was looting military supplies.
Naturally, Zhu Zhao pursued the entire Bai'er Army's westward retreat. Song Zhengdong, who was responsible for breaking up the rear, also resisted. After chasing and escaping, Zhu Zhao drove the White'er Army to Yizhou on the South Yunnan Road.
Only then did Zhao stop.
After bringing the army to the edge of the river, he first washed away the darkness on his body, drank a few big mouthfuls of river water, and ate his fill of dry food. Only then did Zhu Zhao discuss last night's battle with Yan Lege.
"In the battle last night, the White-Ear Army lost at least 40,000 people, but our losses were not small. Now there are only less than 7,000 brothers left. Fortunately, this battle basically paralyzed Song
The backbone of our most elite army. In a short time, the Song family will not pose any threat to me on Jiangnan Road." Zhu Zhao took a sip of wine and said.
Yan Lege also took a swig of wine, and then laughed and said: "These are all your clever plans, brother. It's a pity that you got an advantage over Song Junlin. If his subordinates hadn't acted quickly enough, today next year
It’s the anniversary of his death.”
Zhu Zhao shook his head and said: "Song Junlin has a false reputation. It is not a bad thing to keep him alive. Such a pustule, I will not take him seriously." However, there was a feeling in his heart.
Sighing, Yan Lege can be called the number one warrior in Paradise, and it is indeed a deserved reputation. This man with a blacksmith background wields his iron spear, and the strength of his arms is no less than a thousand pounds, even if he is ranked among the eight masters of evil.
Bing Heng, the commander of the Ji Le Army, would have to take a lot of trouble to deal with him. According to Bing Heng's guess, Yan Lege's strength should be able to tie with the top ten heroes in a battle between Jianghu. But in this situation where moves are not paid much attention to,
He doesn't talk about any skills, he just wants to kill the enemy on the battlefield. Even among the top ten heroes, there is absolutely no one who can match him.
"Brother, what should we do next? The ships from Dongbo will not arrive until the day after tomorrow." Yan Lege took a bite of dry food and said. When talking about Dongbo, Yan Lege's tone was very rude. But Zhu Zhao
Obviously aware of this, he just looked at the map quietly, thinking about the next step. Yan Lege was a truly bloody man. The reason why he followed Cheng Xianqing to conquer the world was not because he couldn't survive.
Rather, he hopes that under the rule of Cheng Xianqing, the people can live a good life. He has never had a good impression of the Eastern Japanese dynasty, but due to the situation, he now has to cooperate with the Eastern Japanese.
"Fourth, when do you think the surrounding forces will know the news about our battle last night?" Zhu Zhao said with a frown.
Yan Lege pondered for a moment, and then said: "It won't be too fast. I think it's really hard to deduce this. But because of our secretive whereabouts along the way, and the White Ear Army's escape too fast, the places south of the river know
It should be faster, while the Qinchuan-Huai River north of the river should be a little later."
Zhu Zhao nodded. He also knew that his brother was not a person who liked to use his brain, so he said to himself: "Now the main attention of all the forces in Qingfeng is focused on the Yuzhou battlefield. As for the situation here,
The attention should be much less. Except for the Song family, who are suffering from the pain, others don’t pay much attention to us. Two days are enough for us to do our job."
Yan Lege laughed dryly and said with some confusion: "Brother, do you mean you want to do it again?"
Zhu Zhao nodded again: "I have this idea. Fourth child, do you have the guts to come with me to find trouble for the three major families again?"
"Why don't you dare?" Yan Lege patted his chest and said, "Brother, if you have anything to say, just say it. As long as you give the order, we will make a way for him even if it is a sea of swords and fire."
The river originates from the Bloody Plateau. When it flows into Yizhou Road, it suddenly makes a big turn. The flow direction suddenly changes from north-south to east-west. Counting from the source, this river has the largest flow, the widest basin and the longest length in the empire.
The longest river flows through Qingning, Yizhou, Diannan, Qinchuan, Huaishui, Dahu, Jiangnan Road and Yangzhou Road 8. Due to this natural flow path, it naturally became the third Jiangnan Road, also known as Dian.
The natural dividing line between the South, Dahu, Jiangnan and Jiangbei roads. The longest of the main rivers is the Huai River Road. The shortest is the Qinchuan Road. However, although the distance is short, this is the base camp of the Qinchuan Navy.
As the Qinchuan Navy moved north, the naval camp near Hezhou City seemed much empty.
Hezhou City is located on the north bank of the river. To the west is Yuzhou on the Yizhou Road, to the east is Binzhou on the Huai River Road, and across the water to the south is Yizhou on the South Yunnan Road. When the empire was prosperous, Hezhou City
It is an important commercial and trade center in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Its prosperity is directly comparable to that of Jiangnan. However, in times of war, especially when the three major families have ulterior motives, the military strategic position of Hezhou City has become more important. Although it is between now and
The empire's situation was complicated, but Li Tieming still stationed 20,000 soldiers in Hezhou City, led by Li Kehua, the son of Li Tiezhan, to prevent unexpected events.
On the south bank of the river, Zhu Zhao swept away all the ships in the surrounding area and finally found more than 20 large ships. Then after an afternoon of crossing the river, all 7,000 soldiers finally crossed the river. While Zhu Zhao was crossing the river
It was obvious that he was extra cautious when he was crossing the river. During the crossing, he had people strip off all the clothes of the soldiers of the White Ear Legion who died in battle along the way to prepare for the conspiracy he was about to launch.
When the news of the Battle of Hezhou reached Haotian's ears, it was already two days later. At that time, Haotian was playing chess with Zhang Yuewan and others in the yard. Luo Xiang, Xuanji and others came to visit, and Haotian only found out about it.
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"Isn't Hezhou City high and walled? Besides, there are 20,000 elite soldiers of the Li family in the city, and the Holy Sect of Paradise only has 7,000 troops. How could they capture Hezhou City?" Haotian said incredulously.
Zhang Yuewan and others also looked at the mystery with surprised faces. Among them, Zhang Yuewan's expression was the most concerned. After all, to the east of Hezhou is Huaishui Binzhou, and Huaishui's current military strength in Binzhou is only the Suzaku who have just been replenished and are also guest troops.
Legion, if the Bliss Holy Cult takes the opportunity to cause trouble in Pennsylvania, then the situation in Huai River will definitely get worse. But Xin Jiao is the only one who pays no attention to these things. She just sits quietly next to Haotian and concentrates on helping Haotian and others.
Make tea.
Xuanji smiled bitterly, and then explained in detail what happened that day. After Zhu Zhao, the Holy Sect of Paradise, led his army to sneak across the river, Zhu Zhao did not directly attack Hezhou City, but selected a thousand elite soldiers, wearing white-eared clothes.
The white-clad and white-armored legionnaires attacked a guard post of the Li family in Kuju County, west of Hezhou, and wiped out all 500 soldiers inside. However, they deliberately let one soldier go and took him alive to the Song family to prepare for the eastward march.
news.
This soldier did not live up to Zhu Zhao's high expectations. After being exhausted, he finally escaped to Hezhou City and reported the shocking news. Naturally, Li Kehua was dubious about the news, so he sent a captain and 500 cavalry to investigate the situation.
.As a result, this cavalry team was attacked by Zhu Zhao just after they arrived at Kuju, and the entire army was wiped out.
Zhu Zhao did not stop during this period. After attacking and killing the Li family's guard post, he deliberately went to the Song family's territory with soldiers dressed in Li family clothes. The Song family's army was originally worried about the arrival of the Song Dynasty.
Zhu Zhao was furious because of his defeat, and was naturally furious when he received the news. Zhu Zhao disguised his own soldiers as the troops of the Song and Li families and fought desperately in a conspicuous place. Then the situation was quickly discovered by spies from both sides. The battle
Although the situation was small, it still meant that both sides had already entered the battle. After receiving the news, neither side dared to neglect it. Li Kehua even led 15,000 soldiers to Kuju in person to confront the Song family's army. However,
Although both sides were at war with each other, they both maintained restraint and did not burst into blood as soon as they came on stage.
At this time, Zhu Zhao's thousands of soldiers had already disguised themselves and infiltrated into the city of Hezhou. Some of the soldiers placed themselves in densely populated areas to create chaos to attract the attention of the Li family soldiers. However, Yan Lege personally led five hundred soldiers and Zhu Zhao's soldiers.
Zhaoli Yingwaihe forced the west gate of Hezhou City, and then placed many archers and flammable materials on both sides of the street leading to the west gate. When the Qinchuan soldiers who heard the news arrived, they first blocked the Qinchuan soldiers with a rain of arrows.
The retreat was followed by fires all over the sky. Zhu Zhao was obviously a ruthless master. In order to destroy the Li family's war potential to the greatest extent, after ordering soldiers to systematically rob the warehouses and wealthy households in the city, he simply
The fire burned the entire city of Hezhou into ruins.
After receiving the message and knowing that he had fallen into the trap of diverting the tiger from the mountain, Li Kehua regretted it and immediately led his 15,000 soldiers back at full speed. After seeing the raging fire in Hezhou City, Li Kehua naturally thought that the Ji Le soldiers had retreated, so he rushed in to organize the soldiers and
The common people put out the fire. Unexpectedly, it was true that Ji Le's army had retreated, but Yan Lege personally led three hundred dead soldiers to ambush in the burned city guard's mansion. When Li Kehua, who had worked hard for a long time, entered the city guard's mansion, Yan Lege just
A spear was thrown out, smashing Li Kehua's head immediately, and then he fought a bloody path among tens of thousands of soldiers, met with Zhu Zhao outside the city, and then retreated in an orderly manner.
"Then where did they flee to?" Zhang Yuewan asked first. As the legitimate daughter of King Weiyuan of Huai River, she was most concerned about Zhu Zhao's whereabouts. In order to cope with the pressure from Minghui and Bing Heng, Zhang Cangxiong moved Huai River to All the troops in the three western states have been concentrated near Danzhou, while Pennsylvania only has 10,000 troops and Liu Nanshang's Suzaku Corps. The Suzaku Corps is currently resting near Pingzhou. With Zhu Zhaoshun's methods, if Zhu Zhaoshun goes south, I am afraid Zhang The family is in trouble.
Xuanji naturally understood what she was thinking, so he said with a smile: "After Yan Lege killed Li Kehua, he and Zhu Zhao's army marched to the edge of the river. With the support of the Dongwa Navy, they went south along the river safely. Return to Jiangnan."
"Eastern Japanese Navy? It seems that the Holy Sect of Paradise and the Eastern Japanese Dynasty are really considerate." A flash of anger flashed in Haotian's eyes and he snorted. What he hates most are people who collude with foreign races. There are even more foreign races than those around them.
Feng Jing smiled and said: "It doesn't count. It is said that on the way back, there was a conflict between the two sides when distributing the gold and silver jewelry robbed from Hezhou City. As a result, Yan Lege and the Dongwa Navy had a quarrel. If If Zhu Zhao hadn't been there to mediate, I'm afraid the two sides would have fallen out by then."
"Oh? This Yan Lege is actually a man?" Haotian said with some surprise.
"This man comes from a rich family, he is forthright and righteous, and he is well-known in the Jinzhou area of Yangzhou Road. However, he was eventually bewitched by the Holy Sect of Paradise, otherwise he is really a man!" Xuanji explained with a smile.
"My beautiful lady, how can I be a thief!" Xin Jiao handed the tea in his hand to Haotian, then sighed and said.
Haotian gently took Xin Jiao's tea, squeezed her jade hand and said, "No matter whether he is a real man or not, since he has mixed up with the Holy Sect of Paradise, he absolutely cannot be forgiven."
Xin Jiao's face turned red, and he struggled to take his little hand back from Haotian's hand, and then handed the tea on the table to Luo Xiang Xuanji and others one by one.
Haotian didn't mind either. He took a sip of tea and then frowned and said, "What about the casualties among the residents in Hezhou City?"
"There are more than 500,000 people in Hezhou City. No less than 300,000 people died in the fire and military famine. The specific number has not been calculated yet. However, King Jingxi has led 50,000 soldiers from Ezhou to Hezhou." Luo Xiang said calmly.
"There's no point in going now!" Haotian said with a cold snort, and then put the teacup in his hand heavily on the table, and the tea immediately overflowed. Seeing this, Xin Jiao quickly took out his handkerchief to help Haotian After wiping the tea on his hands, he stood behind Haotian and gently helped Haotian get up.
Xue Qingcheng sighed: "This Zhu Zhao really has some skills. Ten thousand light-armored soldiers actually dared to cross the Great Lakes to attack the Bai'er Army and behead more than 40,000 people. His own losses were less than 3,000. Then seven thousand soldiers dared to cross the river to sneak attack Li Kehua in Hezhou, especially his cunning plan in Hezhou City, which was meticulous and interlocking. If it were an ordinary person, let's not talk about such complicated things. It was a plan, but if he was asked to implement it, he would probably be dizzy, but he actually succeeded, and he also defeated Hezhou City in one fell swoop."