Chapter one hundred and seventy-fifth
"Uncle, I knew your answer before I came. Since you still refuse to send troops, I won't say much. Uncle, you understand that if you have any difficulties, I understand. I don't ask you for goodbye. I just say goodbye to you. I will return to the Huaishui battlefield with my sister and kill the thief side by side with my father. Even if I die in the battlefield, I will say goodbye without regrets. I will meet again if I have the fate."
The above is what Wang Xuanying said in his stomach, and waited for Chen Yingliang to reject his request for help again, and then immediately issued this righteous declaration, taking his sister back to the Huaishui battlefield to meet with Wang Shichong, and then waited until the rear army of the third uncle Wang Shiwei arrived at the Huaishui battlefield, and the old Wang family could defeat the rioters' coalition forces that had been severely damaged and took their credit.
As for why he still had to go through the motions, of course, it was because Chen Yingliang was too cunning. If Wang Xuanying took his sister and left without saying goodbye, it would probably make Chen Yingliang understand that there had been major changes in the Huaishui battlefield. The Sui army in Jiangdu no longer needed reinforcements from the Qiao County Sui army to break through the bandit army alone, which led to Chen Yingliang, the shameless uncle who was extremely shameless, immediately brought troops south and took advantage of the situation to rob and rob the credit.
Wang Xuanying soon discovered something was wrong. When he asked Chen Yingliang to reinforce the Huaishui battlefield again, Chen Yingliang not only did not pretend to be sick and refused as usual, but also showed an extremely hesitant look, as if he wanted to agree, but seemed to be a little unwilling to agree. Feeling that something was wrong, Wang Xuanying quickly said: "Uncle, time is not waiting for anyone. My father just sent someone to send news that although our army guarded the camp yesterday, the casualties were very heavy, and many generals were seriously injured. My father was no longer sure whether the rioters could still defend the camp next time the attack on the camp was. I also asked my uncle to send troops as soon as possible to alleviate the danger of our army's upside down."
Chen Yingliang was really hesitating this time. How was Du Li's coalition casualties in yesterday's war? The strength was reduced to that level. Chen Yingliang has not received accurate news yet. With little capital, Chen Yingliang certainly did not want to attack, but he had to pretend to be sick and refuse as usual. Chen Yingliang said that he could not bear any face. After hesitating for a long time, Chen Yingliang, whose conscience was not eaten up by the dog, finally made up his mind and nodded, "Okay, I'll send troops immediately. My nephew can go back and report to Brother Shichong first, and say that within two days, our army will definitely arrive on the battlefield for reinforcements."
"What? Have you agreed?"
Yuan Tiangang, Wei Zheng, Ma Sanbao and others next to them were all stunned, and they all doubted whether Chen Yingliang really had a high fever and talked nonsense. He would actually agree to send troops to reinforce when the enemy was unknown? However, Yuan Tiangang, Ma Sanbao and others were still behind. After hearing that Chen Yingliang finally agreed to send troops, Wang Xuanying was not only not ecstatic, but also blurted out: "Do you really send troops?"
"Of course." Chen Yingliang, who was guilty, did not react for a moment, nodded and said, "Don't worry, nephew, I have always promised a thousand gold. Before the sunset the day after tomorrow, our army will definitely arrive at the Huaishui battlefield to reinforce."
Wang Xuanying was even more dumbfounded, and after a while he trembled, "Uncle, what about your illness?"
"It's okay. I took two doses of good medicine today and sweated all over. I'm much better."
Chen Yingliang answered easily, and then Chen Yingliang finally realized something was wrong. Wang Xuanying was not only not happy at all, but his expression was extremely dull. Seeing this situation, Chen Yingliang, who had made a living by solving the case a few years ago, immediately understood that the situation was wrong and said, "But I can't guarantee that if Xia Dachuang sacrificed his life to intercept our army, maybe our army would have to take more time to arrive at the battlefield. If this happens, my nephew must apologize to Brother Shichong for me, and then ask him to rest assured. I will definitely go to the Huaishui battlefield to reinforce as quickly as possible."
"This guy is trying to watch the scenery again." Wang Xuanying was happy and hurriedly bowed to Chen Yingliang and said, "That's of course, that's of course, uncle, please rest assured. If your army is blocked by rioters and cannot arrive on time, we will understand your difficulties and will never dare to blame them at all."
Hearing Wang Xuanying's reply, Chen Yingliang nodded and said nothing. Wang Xuanying was even more happy and quickly bowed and said goodbye. Chen Yingliang did not try to keep him. He told him to be careful on the way and let Wang Xuanying leave. However, just as Wang Xuanying was about to walk out of the tent, Chen Yingliang suddenly said: "Nephew, I forgot something. Has the messenger sent by your father ever mentioned the casualties of the rioters' coalition?"
Wang Xuanying pursed his lips and then turned around and said, "Uncle, I'm sorry for my crime. My father did not introduce the casualties of the thieves in the letter, but the coalition forces of the thieves have 50,000 troops, and their troops are more than twice that of our army. No matter how many casualties are, they will definitely still be above our army in terms of military strength."
Chen Yingliang nodded and stopped talking. Wang Xuanying said goodbye again and left. As soon as Wang Xuanying left, Yuan Tiangang and Ma Sanbao immediately came to Chen Yingliang and said in unison: "Deputy envoy, do you see that? Wang Xuanying's situation was wrong just now. He said he wanted help from us, but in fact he didn't want us to send troops immediately."
"Of course I can see it." Chen Yingliang sneered and said, "And I can be sure that there must be a major change in the Huai River battlefield that is very beneficial to Wang Shichong, so Wang Xuanying came to me to play hard to get, saying that he wanted to help, but in fact he wanted me to continue to hold my troops."
"What major change?" Yuan Tiangang asked happily.
"I don't know." Chen Yingliang shook his head and smiled and said, "But it doesn't matter. When we fight to the Huaishui battlefield, we will understand everything."
After smiling, Chen Yingliangteng stood up and shouted: "Cheng Yaojin, Ma Sanbao obeyed the order. You two immediately led a thousand troops to attack the rioter Xia Dazhe. Today, be sure to break through the bandit camp and open up our army's road to the south."
"promise"
Cheng Yaojin and Ma Sanbao immediately clasped their fists and sang their promise without hesitation, and then ran out of the tent to organize the army to attack. Chen Yingliang ordered Kan Jiao, Niu Jinda, Li Yi and others to assemble the remaining troops, and only brought food and grass light chariots to the rear army for only ten days, and he led them to serve as the rear army. He set off immediately and asked Chuan Xiao to fully rush to the Huaishui battlefield a hundred miles away before Shen Shi the next afternoon. There must be no delay. Kan Jiao and Niu Jinda, who had been impatient, also clasped their fists and sang their promise, and immediately went out of the tent to prepare to go, leaving Chen Yingliang sneering in the central army's tent, "Wang Shichong, old thief, want to take advantage of me? Now you know it's amazing?"
In a moment, Ma Sanbao and Cheng Yaojin led 2,000 troops to advance eastward, and rushed to the rioter Xia Dazhong camp thirty miles away like a flash. In order to get time to complete the task as soon as possible, Cheng Yaojin also led four regiments of cavalry to advance eastward with all their might. Ma Sanbao led the infantry to advance eastward. Everyone in Qiao County, who had been preparing for the long time, rushed the first place, and the horses were whipping at the speed of extremely fast. The more than 800 cavalry led by Cheng Yaojin only took more than an hour to arrive outside Xia Dazhong's camp.
At the same time, after learning about the attack of Qiao County's army, Xia Dacheng actually led his army out of the camp to fight. As a result, this gave the famous general Cheng Yaojin the opportunity to show his skills. Before Xia Dacheng's array was completed, he had already led more than 800 cavalry to directly attack Xia Dacheng's central army. The bandit army was shocked and rushed to fight in a hurry, but Cheng Yaojin took three thieves and generals in a row. The bandit army was suddenly in chaos and was rushed to pieces by the wolf-like cavalry of Qiao County. Xia Dacheng's heart
Fearing and taking the lead in running for life, Cheng Yaojin led his army to chase him, forcing Xia Dacheng to not even dare to return to the camp, and directly bypassed the camp and fled to the southeast. The cavalry of Qiao County chopped and killed the thieves and defeated the soldiers from the camp. When Ma Sanbao led the infantry to the reinforcements, the bandits left behind the camp were frightened and did not even dare to defend the camp. They abandoned the camp and fled, allowing the infantry of Qiao County to take the thieves and the camp to take the thieves and the camp without any effort - unfortunately, there were not many decent spoils inside.
It was easy to take down the camp of the Xia Dazhe thief army. Chen Yingliang did not even clean the battlefield and directly handed over the task of cleaning the battlefield to the brave people in Suyu Township. He rode the sun just starting to set and led the Qiao County army to continue to advance southeastward until the second update at night. Chen Yingliang ordered the army to sleep and rest. At the same time, the physically energetic Qiao County army was only fifty miles away from the Huai River battlefield, and only forty miles away from the thief army camp of Du Fuwei and Li Zitong.
Chen Yingliang, who had been hiding in Suyu for a long time, suddenly took action, and the speed of attack was so fast. The news reached the Huai River battlefield. Wang Shichong had the intention to kill people. He scolded his son and daughter for being incompetent, and even couldn't play the trick of playing hard to get. He even scolded Chen Yingliang for being despicable and shameless. He actually took advantage of the price and grabbed credit at this deadly moment. The members of the Wang family also roared like thunder, swallowing Chen Yingliang alive and cutting Chen Chi alive. Wang Renze, who had an arm hanging on his chest, was so angry that he smashed the case in front of him. The roaring sound could be clearly heard on the south bank of the Huai River, "I want to kill him, I must kill this shameless little thief with my own hands."
No matter how crazy roaring was, it was useless. After an unprecedentedly tragic life-and-death battle, less than half of the 20,000 troops led by Wang Shichong across the Huaihe River were left, and there were so many wounded soldiers that were not enough to fill the dead bodies in front of the landfill. He could only urgently transfer a thousand civilians from Shanyang County in the southern case to help clean the battlefield and clean up the bodies. The main elite heavy infantry were all injured. Generals Song Hao and Chen Lin were both killed in battle, and almost all the remaining generals were injured. In this case, Wang Shichong not to mention launching an attack immediately to take credit for himself, he just wanted to get a share of the pie when Chen Yingliang fought with the thieves.
Without any choice, Wang Shichong had to settle for the second best and ordered: "Give up the uninjured soldiers and the less injured soldiers into military orders, and then transfer 500 rural brave men from Shanyang to come. When Chen Yingliang's little thief and the rioters fight to the decisive battle, he can grab as much as he can."
Wang Shiyun, who was wrapped in blood gauze on his head, agreed dejectedly, and then said, "Brother, you have many ideas. Can you think of a solution to temporarily stabilize Chen Yingliang's little thief for a few days? As long as the reinforcements of the third brother arrived, we have the hope of winning the most credit."
"I have some delaying strategies, but do you think Chen Yingliang's little thief will be fooled?" Wang Shichong asked with a wry smile. Wang Shiyun was speechless. Most of the injured Wang family members were also dejected. They were all heartbroken by Chen Yingliang, the so-called comrade-in-arms. When they meet a comrade-in-arms like Chen Yingliang, the old Wang family really did not accumulate virtue.
"Only the current plan is that I can only hope that Du Fuwei and Li Zitong can fight for some fun. Don't rush to escape from us and hold on for a few more days." Wang Shichong sighed and sighed again: "I don't want more than three days. As long as they can hold on for three days, we have the hope of winning the greatest result of this battle."
Wang Shichong's family was just roaring and cursing. At the same time, in the thief camp, the big thieves led by Du Fuwei, Fu Gonghu and Li Zitong were hysterical, especially Du Fuwei, whose belly was shot by a runaway arrow, regardless of his wounds, smashing the table and roaring, "Shameless villain is extremely despicable and you go south earlier. When I fight with Wang Shichong and both losers, they will come to pick the advantage. What's the ability to kill you? One day I will kill you, a shameless person."
As he roared, his movements violently pulled the wound on his lower abdomen, causing Du Fuwei to feel blue again. Fu Gongfu hurriedly stepped forward to ask his wife, but Du Fuwei pushed him away and asked Xia Dacheng, who had just escaped from the front line to report the news, "How is Chen Yingliang's team of traitors compared to before? Is the combat power increased or decreased?"
"Dad Yu, don't be angry after saying that." Xia Dacheng replied tremblingly: "Compared with the battle between Qiao County, Chen Gouguan's team has obviously become much more powerful. His son led two thousand troops to fight today. Before the formation was set up, he was already defeated by his thousand cavalry. If I hadn't been riding on horseback, I would have been unable to come back to deliver a letter to you."
"There are so many cavalry officers in Chen Gou?" Du Fuwei's face changed a little. Seeing Xia Dacheng Zheng's head, Li Zitong and Fu Gonghu were also pale in his face. He thought that since Chen Yingliang could form so many cavalry officers, the heavy infantry under his command would definitely not be missing.
Of course, if the rioters coalition did not fight the decisive battle with Wang Shichong yesterday, there would be no need to be afraid of Chen Yingliang's mere 5,000 troops, but now it is not possible. After a fierce battle, the main elite of the rioters coalition was already lost, and almost all of them were injured. They could not fight in a short period of time. No matter how many auxiliary soldiers and soldiers there were left, they would be a mob. They were completely vulnerable in front of the well-equipped regular army. Therefore, even if they hated Chen Yingliang like Du Fuwei, they would not dare to have the idea of fighting to the death with Chen Yingliang again.
After thinking for a long time, Du Fuwei, Fu Gonghu and others focused on the actual chief military advisor Mao Wenshen. Unfortunately, Mao Wenshen, who was talking nonstop in the past when discussing military affairs, was now closed and he didn't even dare to speak out. Du Fuwei had no choice but to ask: "Mr. Mao, at this point, do you still have any tricks to defeat the enemy?"
"It is hard to cook without rice, and the students have no choice but to do anything." Mao Wenshen replied helplessly: "Mr. Du, your heavy infantry and our heavy infantry have been wiped out. Half of the main elites have been lost, and most of the living are injured. There are some mobs left to gather the number of people. Even if Zhuge Liang reborn and Jiang Ziya is resurrected, there is no way for the students to do anything."
"Then you can't sit and wait for death, right? Just tell me if you have any solution, there is no need to hesitate." Du Fuwei yelled in anger.
"If the king has to ask for a solution, there are only two ways." Mao Wenshen replied: "One is to escape, and the other is to fight Chen Yingliang to fight to a deathbed."
"How to escape? So how to fight?" Du Fuwei asked.
"If you escape, you can only escape to the lower reaches of the Huai River. The water flows slowly and is sparsely populated. We can cross the river and go south, eat Yancheng, and then try to make a comeback." Mao Wenshen replied: "If you fight, you will concentrate all our warable soldiers, fight to the death with Chen Yingliang, defeat Chen Yingliang, and then advance northward to rob the northern part of Xia Pi. But the students have a say first. I think that in our current situation, the hope of defeating Chen Yingliang is very small. Although Chen Yingliang's troops are not large, they have been waiting for their hard work and have been accumulating momentum for a long time. We only fought a hard battle yesterday, and our physical strength and morale were greatly affected. It is a good opportunity to meet Chen Yingliang's new force."
"What Chen Yingliang? Chen Sangliang is so kind. Chen Sangliang." Du Fuwei roared from the bottom of his heart, then gasped for a few breaths, and then said breathlessly: "Then just run away. I can't command the battle in this situation. If I lose all the remaining troops, we will not even have the capital to make a comeback."
"If you want to escape, just go immediately." Mao Wenshen said quickly: "Chen Yingliang came very quickly this time and will definitely be here tomorrow. There is not much time left for us to retreat. If we want to retreat, we can only leave immediately and leave overnight so that we can hope to save the most strength to cross the Huai River."
"Okay." Du Fuwei could hear Mao Wenshen's opinion very well and immediately ordered: "Brother Fu, please arrange it immediately, bring food, weapons and armor, and leave immediately, and don't want any other ragged houses."
Fu Gongfu agreed and went out to make arrangements immediately. Li Zitong and Mao Wenshen also quickly said goodbye and arranged for a retreat overnight. During this period, they were naturally unrequited to discuss some unethical tricks, allowing Du Fuwei's team to resist the pursuers and let his team cross the river first.
The blessing of Wang Yingxuan and Wang Xueji brothers made Chen Yingliang accidentally catch a best fighter jet that is hard to come by. Even if it is one day late, the best fighter jet that he would miss even if he was one day late. After just ending a fierce battle of fourteen hours, the main force of the thief army, who had only been resting for a day, was still bleeding in wounds, and his physical strength had not recovered. His fighting spirit and morale were at the lowest point. Even the coach Du Fuwei was shot seriously by the straitors, and he could not withstand the attack of any new force. Under such harsh conditions, the choice of robbers to escape overnight was actually the smartest choice.
What's even worse is that the Sui army in Jiangdu, which is so close to him, was also exhausted and unable to fight again. Although they knew that the enemy on the other side was vulnerable, they did not have the strength to launch an attack again and win the final victory. Even after receiving the news that the main force of the rioters abandoned the camp and fled, Wang Shichong could only barely send less than 2,000 troops to pursue and do their best to expand the results of the battle.
If such a good opportunity is placed in front of him, Chen Yingliang would not deserve to be called Chen Sangliang. As soon as he received the news that the thieves had abandoned their camp and fled east, Chen Yingliang immediately led the Sui army in Qiao County, which had only been resting for more than two hours, to launch a pursuit. At the same time, although Wang Shichong's pursuers caught up with the rear of the bandit army, they were defeated by the bandit army, which still had an absolute advantage in military strength and still had a trapped beast fighting. Not only did they not get the credit, but they also posted the lives of hundreds of soldiers - everyone was tired and injured, and the bandit army with the advantage in military strength and will to survive was of course no problem to deal with Wang Shichong's pursuers.
Early in the morning of the third day, the physically energetic Qiao County army finally caught up with the enemy at the Huaihe Ferry east of Lianshui. Du Fuwei's army commander was seriously injured. Li Zitong just wanted to cheat and cheat. The two bandits crossing the river were both unwilling to fight. Before they started fighting, the troops were already in chaos. General soldiers rushed to cross and flee. Chen Yingliang personally led the army to charge and slaughter the main force of the bandit army, which was still more than 30,000. Modao, horizontal sword, strong spear, arrow crossbow, etc., like a storm, storm, and storm, and the thieves were chasing blood and corpses were piled up. In the end, Du Fuwei escaped the Huaihe River by chance under the burden of Wang Xiongyan, and led the remnants of less than 1,500 people to escape to Yancheng with Fu Gonghu.
At the same time, Li Zitong and Mao Wenshen made a cunning trick. When they were fighting with the Qiao County army in Du Fuwei's team, they immediately led their troops to cross the river and fled to the lower reaches. Unfortunately, Chen Yingliang immediately divided his troops to pursue him. In the end, Li Zitong still failed to find a chance to cross the river, and was still defeated by the pursuers led by Cheng Yaojin. In the end, they could only escape the Huai River with hundreds of people and fled to Yancheng to meet Du Fuwei.
In this battle, the Qiao County army beheaded more than 8,000 units, captured nearly 20,000 people, seized more than 5,000 cattle, horses, mules and sheep, firmly grasped the greatest victory of the Huai River War, and when he reported his victory to Emperor Yang of Sui, the numbers on the memorial were definitely much more beautiful than Wang Shichong. Across thousands of miles, Emperor Yang of Sui couldn't tell who killed elite soldiers and who killed miscellaneous soldiers. However, what made Chen Yingliang happiest was not these, but...
"It's finally opened, it's finally opened." Standing in front of a thief soldier wearing leather armor, Chen Yingliang, who personally charged in this battle, raised the blood-covered sword in his hand and laughed, "The sky has eyes. From the battle to the war of defense of the East Capital, to the battle of more than 30, I finally killed an enemy with my own hands.
"Secretary envoy, don't blame the villain for being too talkative." A personal soldier said timidly: "Your knife was slashed on the shoulder of the dead body. There was also a gunshot wound on the back of the corpse, which seemed to have just penetrated into the back of the heart."
Chapter completed!