Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty-One: Cheng Chumo uses a plan (two in one)
Wugu City is located 500 miles southeast of Liaodong City. If you change horses continuously but don’t change people, you can get there one day and one night.
But sending a message at this speed is OK, but it is not possible for a large army to move. It takes at least three days for a large army to move.
Cheng Chumo brought 20,000 troops to ambush the middle of the two cities, which was also the closest route for Liaodong City to support Wugu City.
But after waiting for a day, Cheng Chumo was a little impatient. Xue Rengui said that the enemy might not come to support him, so wouldn’t he be able to make arrangements here for nothing?
It's not a problem!
Thinking of this, Cheng Chumo stopped to set up an ambush, scattered all his scouts, and explored all the important roads around Liaodong City.
Even the surrounding area of Wugu City is 100 miles away. What if the enemy comes to reinforce but does not follow this nearest road in the end?
It was a coincidence that Cheng Chumo was really caught by Meng. The general who had brought his troops from Liaodong City privately heard the words of Yizhi Wende, so he was wary of being robbed halfway, and went straight to the south from Liaodong City, preparing to go south first and then east first.
But it was just that the distance between Liaodong City and Wugu City was so big, and the road that could accommodate 20,000 troops could count the marchings with one hand, so it was really explored by Cheng Chumo.
"What? Could it be that the news was leaked? Damn it, he actually knew to bypass us?"
Cheng Chumo was so angry that he slapped his thigh and started to curse.
"No, I want to bypass me? This is the first time since I went to war, I led my troops alone. How can I show my ability if I don't fight a good battle?
Take the map and bypass me, it takes time to run a little further.
I'm waiting for you fifty miles west of Wugu City, to see where you run?"
A day later, on the official road west of Wugu City, the 20,000 Goguryeo army finally arrived at its destination after a few days of rapid march. The leading general ordered an hour to rest, and then the horses and people stopped and rushed to the enemy troops under Wugu City.
The deputy general asked the main general with concern: "General, if there is no military order, I will send troops out to support me without a military order. I'm afraid the general will not be able to get through after he returns."
The main general smiled freely and said, "The General judged that he would be ambushed on the way back to the aid. Now we are safe all the way, and there is no ambush at all. Perhaps we have bypassed the ambush.
In short, we can attack the enemy directly in the siege. When we resolve the crisis for Wugu City and return with great victory, we will be able to defeat the merits. The general will not be merciless."
The deputy general smiled with him, and then asked curiously: "I heard that General, you are from Wugu City. Do you still have family members in the city?"
"What? Do you think it is a fake for public service, and because of this, it is for the support of the emperor?" said the main general unhappy.
"I don't dare. Wugu City is the most important city that supports the support and supplies of Liaodong City. It cannot be lost. We have come to rescue the company for breaking orders because of this, and we have no other intentions."
After pausing for a moment, the Lord General said bitterly: "If you say that you have no selfishness, who can do it? My wife and children are all in Wugu City. This time, even if I am alone, I must come to rescue you.
But because of my military order alone, I was so tired that 20,000 brothers were following me and I was ashamed!"
"We are willing to follow the general to go through fire and water, and we will never let the enemy trample on our city! We will never let the enemy bully our family!"
The deputy general shouted solemnly, and the atmosphere of looking at death infected the nearby guards. Then the guards were also shouting in unison, and then slowly led the entire army to growl.
The sound was so far that Cheng Chumo, who was ambushing several miles away, could hear it.
"Hey, these idiots, since you are secretly here to support, you should hide your traces. Are you still shouting like this, aren't you afraid of exposing your whereabouts?" Cheng Chu said disdainfully.
The guards beside him said in confusion: "General, it seems that the other party is shouting slogans, maybe they are preparing to boost morale before the attack."
Cheng Chumo said curiously: "Oh? You guy has sharp ears. I can't even hear clearly. Can you understand what the other person shouts?"
"Well... I heard it roughly, and it seemed that I was saying that the enemy would never trample on the city, and that the enemy would never bully his family..."
"Tramming the city and bullying the family?
Humph, when the two armies fight, will they die? Is nonsense useful? Besides, we are here to destroy the country. How is it called destroying the country if we don’t destroy the city? As for bullying the family, who do you think of me? What kind of hero is bullying the weak?" Cheng Chumo cursed.
The guard hesitated for a moment and whispered: "General, if we look from them, we are indeed enemies who come to destroy the city. They are defending their country, and we are invaders."
you……
Cheng Chumo was choked very much, and then he didn't feel embarrassed, staring at the guard with a smirk, "Haha, are you talking about your general, and you all like bad guys?"
"No, no, we came to destroy the country to take revenge. They killed many of us in the Sui Dynasty in Goguryeo, not to mention the distance, but to say that they were close. They sent 50,000 troops to invade our Hebei Road and robbed our Beisha City not long ago. All of these were changed to let him destroy the country and apologize for the crime!" The guard immediately shouted righteously.
Cheng Chumo patted the other party's shoulder and shook his head and smiled, "Don't you even dare to say the truth in front of me? Is my personal guard a coward? I admit myself that I am here to kill people and destroy the country and be a bad person. I will say whatever you have. What do you think in your heart, say it."
The personal guard seemed to be stimulated, straightened his chest and replied seriously: "Report to General, you smile like a bad person!"
"Well, it's very good. I just like honest soldiers!" Cheng Chumo encouraged.
"Thank you for your praise, you are actually more like you when you don't smile!"
...
An hour later, General Goguryeo, who led his team to attack the Tang army outside Wugu City, had just walked a few miles before he encountered Cheng Chumo who had been waiting for a long time.
"Who is here? I'll report to you, my subordinates won't kill the nameless ghost!" Cheng Chumo took the lead and called out.
The general opposite pressed the bitterness in his heart, but unexpectedly he was in ambush. When he looked up, he found that he was a young man. He dared to ambush me with thousands of people.
"Junior, just by the thousands of fish behind you, you dare to block my general's way? Where is your adult? Just let you come out to die?" General Goguryeo said from worry to disdain.
After hearing this, Cheng Chumo waved his hand impatiently and said, "Forget it, you Goguryeo stupid general, I am too lazy to ask you for your name.
There are many military tactics, and I don’t understand the principle of not entering the forest. No wonder you are ambushing you, it’s boring to lie down here.
Brothers, come out, the nameless general in front of us said that we are too few to bully, and we cannot weaken our momentum!”
The flag-spoken soldiers behind him immediately sent a message. For a moment, the mountains and forests on both sides were crowded with people, and countless figures were exposed, either with bows and arrows or with blades shining.
Judging from this formation, the 20,000 people from Goguryeo have been plunged into the pocket formation.
The general Goguryeo trembled and gritted his teeth and shouted, "Brothers, fight for a bloody way for our family!"
The ending was not unexpected. Goguryeo was marching in a hurry. How could it be that the enemy could be ambushed? The crossbowmen who were ambushing on both sides shot and killed no less than five thousand enemies with one bow and arrow, and also created an opportunity to wipe out the enemy completely.
The Goguryeo general died. Before his death, his deputy general asked him, "This time, can Goguryeo defend himself from being destroyed?"
The general said: "If you have a big pair of Lu and the general, you will definitely be fine!"
"What if I can't hold on?"
"If I can't hold on, I will die in front of Guopo."
After saying this, he looked at the killed soldiers around him, and the general committed suicide by slashing his sword.
Looking at the opponent's body, Cheng Chumo turned over and dismounted, murmured: "It's a man, I'm sorry, my name is Cheng Chumo, I'm a bad guy!"
Half a day later, Sima Lai News in the army: "General, 20,000 people were basically surrounded and suppressed by us, and more than 1,000 deserters were arrested. What should we do?"
“How did it be handled before?”
"This..." Sima turned around and looked around, and then said honestly: "The soldiers under our command are more bloodthirsty. If we follow our Tang Dynasty practice, the prisoners will either educate them to work for farming or serve as official slaves. However, there are basically no prisoners in this battle. They are too murderous and say that according to the rules of their clan, only female prisoners will be captured.
It's simply..."
Cheng Chumo interrupted, "Okay, I understand. Since it is my Tang Dynasty who leads the troops, we will naturally follow our rules and interrogate them. I want to know some things, and then send a team of people to tie them up and send them to the new city in the north for custody."
From these prisoners, Cheng Chumo asked a lot of things, the number of this army, who was the general, the reason for the expedition, etc.
Cheng Chumo didn't expect that this was his unexpected gain. While glading for his luck, he also regretted the general. Although he was a hero, he was a pity that he belonged to the enemy country.
"General, since we have successfully fought aid, can we go back and hand over the orders to Military Commander Xue? He only brought 20,000 troops to guard the city of Wugu, and there is no manpower." The deputy general suggested.
"The military advisor said that I may send 30,000 yuan to support me along the way. Now that Yizhi Wende is a turtle with his head. How about you tell me that we will enter Liaodong City and capture the old turtle?" Cheng Chumo said with his eyes shining.
this……
The deputy general was stunned, "How can this be done? We only have 20,000 people. At that time, Military Advisor Xue led us a total of 70,000 people and didn't dare to attack Liaodong City.
General, please bear it. Brothers follow you to make achievements and don’t want to die!”
Cheng Chumo laughed, stepped forward and patted the deputy general's shoulder and comforted him: "Don't worry, don't worry, I won't.
Since childhood, my father has taught that those who are brave enough to starve to death and those who are timid will naturally take some risks if they want to make achievements.
Do you think we can do this..."
Cheng Chumo began to discuss his plan with the deputy general, basically changing into the clothes of the Goguryeo soldiers who died in battle, pretending to be in ambush and fleeing back. If he didn't know the truth, he would put it in directly.
The deputy general was confused from the beginning to the end. He only nodded when Cheng Chumo said it, but he didn't remember anything.
"So, do you think this is an excellent strategy?
OK, very good, it's worthy of being the soldiers led by me, Cheng Chumo. So do that. You can go down and arrange it quickly. Soldiers are the most important. Let's go into Liaodong City to capture Yizhi Wende alive!" Cheng Chumo said excitedly.
"Ah? Now, kill, kill in?
General, think twice. This place is very close to Military Advisor Xue. Should we ask for instructions?"
Cheng Chumo said dissatisfiedly: "The fighter opportunity is fleeting, and it will take another day to delay it. It would be strange if the plan is not seen through by others. Just listen to me, and I will take responsibility for it if there is a mistake!"
Good guy, this is too terrible, so I won’t think about who Yizhi Wende is? A veteran who has been through many battles can be plotted by you, a junior?
But Cheng Chumo's personality is just like his father and does it as he says, but he doesn't know if he has the same luck as his father.
So the next night, in the middle of the night, a large group of defeated soldiers appeared under the city of Liaodong, shouting for help!
The defenders in the city were startled in the middle of the night and quickly shot them with arrows to prevent them from getting close.
When they learned that the army was going out to support was defeated and returned, the city was panicked and had fun. So Wugu City is over, and Liaodong City has become an isolated city. No one needs to attack, and I am afraid they will starve to death by then!
"Since you are fleeing back, where is the Lord?" asked the general guarding the city on the city.
"Die! The enemy shot it into a hornet's nest with a bow and arrow, and died on the spot. We were the infantry at the end of the team. We ran for two days and two nights and were exhausted..."
As he said that, the leader seemed to be tired and lay directly on the ground. Not to mention, with this kind of acting, the little golden man is fine.
This person is nothing else, but Cheng Chumo himself.
"Two days and two nights? No, according to the distance, you have encountered each other long ago. How could it be two days ago?" the defenders on the city questioned.
"The General of Yizhi once reminded us that we should be careful, so we took a detour to the south for three days and then turned west. Who knew that the enemy had set up an ambush fifty miles outside Wugu City or was trapped."
The defenders on the city nodded and resolved their doubts. They wanted to order the door to open, but on the grounds of caution, they sent someone to report to the general quickly.
"This general in the city, can you open the door quickly and let us go in and hide? There are enemies behind us chasing us. Our legs are almost broken. We were originally more than 5,000 brothers along the way, but now we are chased and killed all the way, and only one thousand of us are left." Cheng Chumo urged.
"Don't worry, everyone, the general will arrive soon." The guard comforted.
At this moment, a shout of killing suddenly came from outside the city, which sounded quite loud, with almost ten thousand soldiers and horses, as if chasing someone.
The defeated soldiers at the city were panicked, and they all rolled over and got up, but they were squeezing towards the city gate, but there were moats and suspension bridges. During this period, some people even accidentally fell into the river and were in chaos for a while.
Chapter completed!