Chapter 426: The eldest son’s panic (Jun Junhong adds more)
The moon is at the zenith.
The torches on the official road leading to Hanzhou were brightly lit, illuminating the surrounding environment as brightly as day.
Liu Mingzhi stared in astonishment at the extremely clear dragon eagle flag flying in the wind above his head, and looked at Su Baiqing who looked tired with complicated eyes.
"Xiao...Xiao Guowei Su Baiqing?"
Su Baiqing, who looked tired and was in low spirits, trembled when he heard Mr. Liu's address. His eyes were slightly red and he nodded. He endured the wounds on his inner thighs and got off his horse, kneeling on one knee under Liu Mingzhi's horse.
"Su Baiqing, the captain of the Zhaowu School of the Xiaoguo Guard Pioneer Battalion, is here to see the commander-in-chief!"
Liu Mingzhi handed the torch in his hand to Du Yu, turned over and dismounted, looked at Su Baiqing who was kneeling on the ground, then looked at the sleepy-looking Dragon Eagle Cavalry of 50,000 troops on the right, and finally fixed his gaze on Su Baiqing.
"Are you now the general of the Dragon Eagle Cavalry?"
Su Baiqing nodded sadly: "Reporting to the commander-in-chief, the last general Su Baiqing is the general of the Dragon Eagle Cavalry."
"At the end of that year, I followed the commander-in-chief on the Western Expedition, and relied on the commander-in-chief's blessings to kill enemies along the way and achieve meritorious service. I was fortunate enough to be recommended by General Dongfang Ming of Xiaoguo Guard to become a military general in the capital, and to train fifty thousand Dragon Eagle Cavalry brothers!"
"Now that the country is at war, I will be honored to be conferred the title of Dragon Eagle Cavalry General by Your Majesty and come to join forces with the commander-in-chief."
Zhou Baoyu looked at Su Baiqing who was kneeling on the ground with excitement. He was also a general from the Xiaoguo Guard. During the Western Expedition, Su Baiqing was one of his capable generals. After not seeing each other for several years, he thought that Su Baiqing had already died on the battlefield.
Woolen cloth.
Zhou Baoyu originally wanted to get off his horse and exchange greetings, but when he saw Liu Mingzhi's complicated expression, Zhou Baoyu gave up his idea.
The 300,000 new troops have yet to join forces. As one of the generals around Liu Mingzhi, Zhou Baoyu knows very well how much anger Liu Mingzhi has accumulated in his heart.
Zhou Baoyu began to secretly wonder how he would plead for mercy from his former brother if the commander turned against him later.
The fact that Liu Mingzhi could call out Su Baiqing's name shows how deeply Su Baiqing left a deep impression on Young Master Liu.
Thinking of the scene when Su Baiqing fought bravely and fearlessly on the battlefield of the Western Expedition, Liu Mingzhi closed his eyes and sighed silently.
"Su Baiqing, since you have served under my command, you should know my orders for running the army!"
Su Baiqing was stunned and nodded as if he was resigned to his fate.
"Military orders are like mountains, and there are orders and prohibitions."
"Anyone who disobeys the order will be punished with twenty rods!"
"Anyone who violates the order twice will be punished with thirty rods, demoted three levels, and fined for half a year!"
"Anyone who disobeys the order three times will be executed!"
Liu Mingzhi slowly opened his eyes and looked at Su Baiqing sadly.
"I have told you again and again, but I have sent you at least ten emergency documents! What should I do as ordered?"
"Behead...Behead to a decisive decision!"
"Yes, let's kill it!"
Liu Mingzhi gently drew out his Heavenly Sword and put it on Su Baiqing's neck: "Brother, do you have anything else to say?"
Liu Qingchuan and Su Baiqing's generals looked at Liu Mingzhi with their eyes at a loss. They wanted to say something, but they remembered Su Baiqing's previous order and finally lowered their heads and closed their eyes.
Su Baiqing felt the cold Heavenly Sword on his neck and silently shook his head: "The last general, Su Baiqing, has nothing to say. He is willing to take the blame and ask the commander to grant him death."
"Commander, keep people under the sword. Since Su Baiqing has served under the commander, he naturally knows how to run the army with his military orders. In this case, there must be a reason why he was unable to join forces in time. Please find out, commander-in-chief.
Let’s find out the whole story again!”
Su Baiqing opened his eyes and looked at Zhou Baoyu who was begging for mercy, his eyes turned red.
"General!"
Liu Mingzhi looked at Zhou Baoyu limping and trotting over, and the arm holding the sword hilt trembled.
"Baoyu! You......"
Zhou Baoyu looked at Su Baiqing with regret and turned his gaze to Liu Mingzhi: "Commander, there are not many old brothers who fought with you on the battlefield. Even if Bai Qing dies, let him die on the battlefield!"
"I beg you, general!"
"Please, Commander, have mercy!"
"Please, Commander, have mercy!"
"Please, Commander, have mercy!"
Liu Mingzhi looked at the general who was kneeling on the ground in a daze. Liu Mingzhi knew Su Baiqing, so naturally they also knew this old brother from the past, so they naturally began to plead for mercy.
"Brothers, Su Baiqing can't afford it, Su Baiqing can't afford it!"
Liu Mingzhi looked at Su Baiqing who was crying uncontrollably, let out a long sigh, and put away the Heavenly Sword in his hand.
"You still have a chance to plead your case, but it will have to wait until the war is over."
Su Baiqing was startled and hurriedly clasped his fists: "General Su Baiqing, thank you so much, Commander!"
Liu Mingzhi sheathed his sword and looked around, his eyes a little confused: "Why are there only Dragon Eagle Cavalry and Qilin Guard?"
"Reporting back to the Commander-in-Chief, Qilin Guard... Qilin Guard... I don't mean to shirk responsibility, but I still have to say that the reason why the new recruits were unable to arrive in time
Join forces, General Qilinwei has an unshirkable responsibility!"
"The general doesn't know where the Qilin Guards are now!"
"The general will report all the details to the commander one by one when the war is over."
Liu Mingzhi frowned deeply for a moment: "Let's wait until the war is over before we talk."
"All the generals obey the order and follow my commander north to Hanzhou to encircle and suppress the enemy!"
"We have the order!"
Liu Mingzhi's soldiers and horses plus Su Baiqing's 50,000 Dragon Eagle Cavalry rushed towards Hanzhou again.
The sky had been bright for a long time, and Yunyang and Nangong Ye looked at each other in silence at the outside of Hanzhou City. According to the time of day, the soldiers and horses of the Jin Kingdom should have broken through by this time. Why has there been no movement until now?
"Nangong Shuai, what's going on? Are the Jin people resigned to their fate?"
Nangong Ye shook his head solemnly: "Probably not. Wanyan Chiezha and the others are definitely not the type to give up easily. After being rivals for so many years, I know them very well!"
"If that's the case, why didn't any news of the Jin Kingdom's troops breaking out of the encirclement come from all the way!"
"I don't dare to say for sure. Let's wait for the message from the scouts. Hanzhou is such a big place, and the Jin Kingdom's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses will not disappear out of thin air!"
It’s just getting dark, maybe there’s something wrong with the Jin army!”
Yunyang nodded helplessly.
"Forget it, there are 1,200 scouts conducting day and night reconnaissance. Unless the Jin soldiers and horses grow wings and fly out, there is absolutely no way they can disappear silently in Hanzhou!"
"Report to the two generals and the scouts to send a message. The Jin soldiers and horses retreated towards Lingzhou overnight!"
The two of them looked at the soldiers blankly, then came back to their senses and hurriedly took out the map and started looking through it.
Nangong Ye looked at the map in astonishment: "Commander, what kind of strategy is this? Why does it get bigger and farther south? Isn't it waiting to be surrounded by us?"
"It's hard to say. There must be a monster when something goes wrong. I'll send a message to Liu Shuai immediately to see what's going on over there!"
"good!"
On the official road in Hanzhou, Huyan Yunyao looked at the note in her hand with a confused look. If it weren't for the soldiers and horses of the Song and Qing Dynasties behind her who were chasing after her, Huyan Yunyao would have stopped and thought about it.
Huyan Yunyao came to her senses and handed the note to her second brother Hu Yanyu.
"Second brother, look at the information from the scouts. Are Wanyan Chizha and the two old foxes crazy? They don't break out. Instead, they lead the troops to retreat into the hinterland of the dragon. Are they waiting to be attacked by the dragon soldiers?
Are the horses surrounded?"
Hu Yanyu took the information and looked through it. He looked as confused as his younger sister. He really couldn't understand the intentions of the Jin Kingdom's soldiers and horses.
The 300,000 new soldiers of the Great Dragon are coming to encircle you day and night. At this time, you are going deep into the hinterland of the Great Dragon. Isn't this a waste of death?
"I don't understand Wanyan's intention of scolding them. Even if he is going in the opposite direction, he shouldn't be doing this. On the contrary, being surrounded by the dragon's soldiers and horses, isn't this because he has lost his mind and gone crazy?"
"Don't they know that the Dalong soldiers and horses now wish they were besieged in the northern border?"
"What should we do? With the retreat of Jin's soldiers and horses, let's not say that we are diverting trouble to the east. Instead, we will steal the chicken but lose the rice, and send ourselves to be surrounded by the dragon's soldiers and horses in vain."
"Quickly think of a way. We can't continue to Hanzhou. There are wolves in front of us and tigers in the back. If we go to Hanzhou again, we will be destroyed before the Jin Kingdom and be surrounded by the dragon!"
"It shouldn't be the opposite!"
Huyanjunyao rubbed her dusty chin and muttered what her second brother had said, her expression lost in thought.
After a long time, Huyan Yunyao nodded thoughtfully.
"Second brother, tell me, Wanyan Chizha, Yeluha and the others, do they look like the kind of people who want to die in vain? If they wanted to die in vain, they would not lead the troops of the Kingdom of Jin to withdraw back to the country!"
Hu Yanyu was stunned for a moment and looked at the younger sister's meaningful expression in surprise: "You mean, Wanyan Chizha and the others have found a chance of survival?"
Huyan Yunyao shook her head slightly: "I'm not sure whether they found a chance of survival, but I just need to know that they didn't die in vain."
"No matter if they go to Lingzhou for any reason, they are not going to die. In this case, we have no better way, why not just follow their footsteps and go to Lingzhou!"
Hu Yanyu didn't expect that her younger sister would make such a decision, and her face immediately became embarrassed.
"Khan, think twice. We finally broke out of the encirclement. If we go to Lingzhou, we will fall into their encirclement again."
Huyan Yunyao looked at the hesitant second brother, her eyes calm and unruffled, as if the Great Khan who was not afraid to fight with anyone was back again.
"Second brother, do you have any better way besides this?"
"As you said, if we continue to go to Hanzhou, we will be destroyed before the Jin Kingdom. In that case, why not use the dead horse as a living horse doctor?"
"If we don't believe in ourselves, we should at least believe in Wanyan Chizha and the two of them who don't want to die."
Hu Yanyu thought for a while and nodded heavily: "I obey the Khan's orders!"
Huyan Yunyao took out the command flag and waved his hand without hesitation: "Command the three armies to transfer to Lingzhou!"
The sun was rising, and Liu Mingzhi, who had received the letter from Yu Zuosuo and the others, looked at the content on the note, with a flash of panic in his eyes.
How could this happen? How could a place with weak military strength be known to Wanyan Chiezha and the others? This is something that Song Qing, Cheng Kai, and even the beautiful lady they share the same bed with, Gumo Rongrong, don’t know!
"Commander! What happened?"
Liu Mingzhi put away the letter in his hand slightly absent-mindedly: "Instruct the three armies to quickly assemble towards Chongzhou!"
"Chongzhou?"
"Yes, Chongzhou!"
"Send a message to the two armies on the left and right, asking them to gather towards Dingzhou, especially to set up a defense line of no less than 100,000 soldiers and horses at Shuimingjian outside Dingzhou City!"
"Don't ask why, just pass the message!"
"Got the order!"
"All generals listen to the order and follow my commander to assemble in Chongzhou!"
Cheng Kai and the others looked at Young Master Liu who no longer looked like he had a chance to win. They wisely did not speak and silently followed Liu Mingzhi as they rode towards Chongzhou, which had nothing to do with the enemy.
A few days later, scouts continued to attack various prefectures in northern Xinjiang, and the golden eagles and falcons in the sky never stopped.
The generals under Liu Mingzhi gradually discovered that their commander's face was becoming more and more strange.
There is a feeling of being guessed at everything but helpless.
Liu Mingzhi rubbed his temples tightly, looking at the contents of the latest letter in his hand with a gloomy expression.
"Spy? It's impossible for a spy to know what I'm thinking."
"The enemy always takes advantage of the situation. What went wrong?"