Chapter 275 Two Strange Armies (Part 2)

The crossbow arrows were as dense as rainstorms, and they shot towards the cavalry on the official road strongly and ruthlessly. The sudden attack was without any signs. Zhu Lijun, who was extremely excited, seemed to have fallen into the quagmire of hell. The screams of arrows, the neighing of war horses, and the team was in chaos. In an instant, nearly two thousand cavalrymen were caught in arrows and fell to the ground.

"Retreat! Retreat!" In a panic, Zhu Xueren screamed wildly while taking a shield to block it. Suddenly, a sharp pain in his right arm, and an arrow shot into his arm. He screamed, and dozens of personal guards around him immediately rushed up, forming a defensive wall with shields to protect him from retreating.

He gritted his teeth and pulled out the arrow from his arm. The arrow had a barb and a piece of bloody flesh hung on the hook. The severe pain almost made Zhu Xueren faint.

With the faint moonlight, the three words "Lin Jiuhan" were engraved on the arrow shaft.

Zhu Xueren took a breath of air conditioning suddenly. How could there be Zhang Huan's army here?

"Retreat!" He shouted again, and turned his horse's head and fled first. Unexpectedly, after running less than a hundred steps, a guard general rushed forward to report, "General, the retreat has been cut off, and the enemy has about a thousand...."

Before he could speak, his head suddenly flew up, and the blood in his neck rushed out of height. Zhu Xueren kicked him off the horse angrily, and scolded viciously: "Have you scared a thousand people?"

"Run out and fight back!" He roared loudly, swung his sword and rushed northward.

After rushing two miles away, he had reached the end of the team. Zhu Xueren was stunned. He saw corpses all over the ground, and his cavalry rushed out like crazy, but he could not rush out.

Not a thousand people, at least five or six thousand troops intercepted the retreat. He suddenly found that there was a strange army, and there were indeed only one thousand people. He said that they were strange because they were all infantrymen, all tall and long arms, wearing heavy armor, lined up like a wall, especially their weapons that he had never seen before, about two feet long and were extremely long. They did not rush forward, but only stood still, waving the long blades with their waists. Once their cavalry approached, they were immediately chopped into pieces by people and horses. This army was simply a nightmare for cavalry.

The reason why his cavalry could not rush out was the existence of these thousand people. Beside them, there were corpses of people and horses, and blood flowed into a river, which was terrible.

"Mo Daojun!" An older veteran next to him suddenly screamed in horror.

Zhu Xueren was shocked. He had heard that Mo Daojun, who had made great achievements in the Anshi Rebellion, gradually disappeared, but he didn't expect to see him again now.

But the situation in front of him could not think too much. He was ambushed by Zhang Huan's army, and he didn't even know how many enemy troops were. At this moment, a cavalry of about 3,000 people rushed towards him, and the war horses swept forward like wind, slashing forward, violently slashing like a storm. The iron spear and sword stabbed on the iron armor, making a harsh sound, crying, and screams suddenly, and opened a bloody road among the dense enemy troops. The cavalry was extremely brave, stomping everything on the bloody road, overwhelming everything, and invincible everything, splitting Zhu Li's army into two, and together with the army intercepted in front, surrounded Zhu Xueren's more than a thousand people.

Seeing that his elite troops were like scarecrows in front of them, Zhu Xueren was furious and activated his war horse, rushed back with his gun, and wanted to break out of the encirclement.

When he saw a general swinging his spear, Zhu Xueren raised his gun to block it. With a loud bang, his arm hurt a sharp pain, and the iron spear flew out of his hand.

"Does that arrow taste good?" Zhu Xueren saw a grim face, and then slashed at him with a knife. He suddenly felt that he had become two people, and his vision suddenly expanded.

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"Kill! No one left."

With Zhu Xueren's death, the entire battlefield turned into a one-sided massacre. The surging Xiliang army was like a reckless iron stream. They rushed forward, crushed everything, rushed forward, chopped and slashed, and cut their hands and were exhausted. Zhu Li's army shouted and fled around the wilderness in the dark night. From time to time, they fell into a pit and fell, or knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, but they could not escape death.

After about an hour, the battle finally came to an end. As a group of desperate Zhu Li soldiers were surrounded by hundreds of Xiliang troops and chopped to death, the 10,000 vanguard troops escaped less than a hundred people, and the rest were killed, without a single living person.

This battle lasted until several years later, and the censor impeached Lin Jiuhan without accepting the enemy's surrender at that time, which was too cruel.

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On January 27, the last boat of refugees left Changshou County. On this day, the outer city of Xiangyang was captured by Cui Qinggong. Wang Ang lost his fighting spirit and led 30,000 people to surrender. Cui Qinggong followed up and went south, but was ambushed by Zhu Li's main force in Nanzhang County. The former general Yang Hao was killed in the battle. Cui Qinggong's army was defeated by underestimating the enemy. He himself was injured and had to retreat back to Xiangyang. At the same time, Zhang Huan's 100,000 troops had also arrived in Yongqing County, and the three families formed a subtle confrontation.

At this moment, Cui Qinggong's old nest Ruyang came from him that shocked him: turmoil occurred in Huaibei.

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Qiao County, this is the main grain-producing area controlled by Cui Qinggong. Li Huaixian took advantage of Cui Qinggong's opportunity to fight westward and sent his adopted son Li Deqing to the east to capture several prefectures and counties with fewer troops in Cui Qinggong. However, when he took Suiyang County, he had a small-scale conflict with Cui Qinggong's left-behind general Zhou Li. Zhou Li had few soldiers and gave up Suiyang County and retreated to Qiao County. However, Li Deqing refused to give up and chased after him. He defeated Zhou Li in the north of Zhenyuan County, and occupied Zhenyuan and Qiao counties in one fell swoop. Zhou Li retreated to Chengfu County.

Qiao County is Cui Qinggong's granary. Here, Li Deqing accidentally discovered the Jiangnan canal transport intercepted by Cui Qinggong, which contained one million stones of grain and five hundred thousand stagnant of coins. He immediately sent someone to report to Li Huaixian and invited his adoptive father to come to the scene to inspect.

Li Huaixian was overjoyed when he received the news. He happily decided to go to Qiao County to admire the spectacularity of millions of stones of grain. After the Lantern Festival, he came to Qiao County under the protection of a thousand guards, and Li Deqing went to Zhenyuan County in person to welcome the arrival of his adoptive father.

On a mountain road south of Zhenyuan County, Li Deqing and 200 personal soldiers came slowly from afar. At this moment, the corner of his mouth lost the kind of kind smile that used to be, and became cold and serious, with a hint of sadness in his eyes.

He recalled the past many years ago, when he was valued by the head of the family as the most humble son of a family, but in the battle in Jincheng County, he made a mistake in judgment and took risks to pursue Zhang Huan. In the end, he was ambushed by him. The three thousand troops were wiped out. Although he fled to his death, he had no face to see the head of the family again.

Since that war, Wei Deqing, the illegitimate son of the Wei family, has died, and only a family sinner full of sorrow and guilt in his heart. He came to Shandong incognito and joined the army and became a small pawn in Li Huaixian's camp, renamed Deqing. This is just a glimmer of hope in his heart, almost slim hope. Can he find a chance to stand out in the most powerful aristocratic family in the world?

As the cold and heat go by, year after year, he practiced martial arts hard, regardless of day or night, never stepping out of the military camp. In the past three years, he had never seen a woman. In this way, he developed a strong martial arts, but he was still a pawn.

The opportunity to make a name for himself came from the turmoil. Cui Qinggong split Cui Jianan and left him to see hope. Two years ago, he entered the Chenliu regiment training camp alone, killed the regiment training envoy and seven main officers, and broke through the siege alone, leaving the 2,000 regiment training army scattered without a leader. He became famous and was regarded as an adopted son by Li Huaixian and became his confidant.

Li Deqing, no! We should call him Wei Deqing. After years of loneliness and hardship, he has never forgotten his great sin. The Wei family has lost its foundation because of him and has never recovered from it. It is like a scar that can never be cured in his heart. Only by redeeming his sins can he return to his hometown to meet his mother who thought he was dead.

"General, look, the general's tent!" A personal soldier shouted at the white tent at the foot of the mountain from a distance.

Wei Deqing rode on his horse and looked at the camp in the distance silently. To the west of the camp, the vortex water winded south like a jade belt. After a long time, he finally made up his mind and turned around and ordered a personal soldier a few words. The personal soldier took the order and turned around immediately.

"Let's go! Let's go to see the Grandmaster." Wadeqing smiled coldly and urged the horse to gallop down the hill.

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Li Huaixian has never been as happy as he is now. The mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole is behind him. Cui Qinggong attacks Xiangyang in a big way, but it brings such a great opportunity to himself. His adopted son easily defeated Zhou Li, the second-ranked four kings under Cui Qinggong, and seizes one million stones of food. This pair of Li Huaixian, who has always suffered from insufficient food and grass, was a huge good news.

Li Huaixian was excited to observe the map in the camp. After taking Qiao County, he would immediately attack eastward and seize Peng, Linhuai and Donghai counties before Cui Qinggong's Xiangyang Battle. In this way, his territory would be expanded to eight counties, which was enough to compete with any force. His strategy of keeping a low profile for many years could also come to an end.

Li Huaixian gently tapped Pengjun (today Xuzhou) with his thick index finger, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought. The three counties in the east could allow his eldest son to manage, while Qiaojun and Huaiyang County could allow his second son to control it. As for the adopted son Li Deqing, it would be better to stay by his side. This time he attacked Qiaojun without authorization, it can be seen that he was not such a reliable person.

"Report to the general, General Deqing has arrived." The personal soldiers' reports interrupted Li Huaixian's thoughts.

"Send him in!"

He stood up with a smile, and saw Li Deqing's agile figure walking in from outside the door. He stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and said, "I'm late to welcome my father, I hope to forgive me!"

"My son is innocent!" Li Huaixian smiled and helped Li Deqing up. The moment Li Huaixian touched his arm, a strong desire suddenly surged in Li Deqing's heart. At this time, he was very sure to kill Li Huaixian, but he developed restraint for many years and suppressed his thoughts.

But Li Huaixian had already experienced many battles. He immediately sensitively noticed the murderous aura that was revealed by Li Deqing. He stepped back, pressed the hilt of the sword, and stared at his adopted son vigilantly.

Li Deqing seemed to feel nothing. He stood up and shook his head, and said ashamedly: "This time he had already trapped Zhou Li and could kill him in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect that he had a substitute, which made the golden cicada escape and ran away. The result was failed. The child was really shameless to come to see his father."

Only then did Li Huaixian realize that the murderous aura on Li Deqing was targeting Zhou Li, not himself. He gave up his heart and smiled slightly and said, "It doesn't matter whether Zhou Li dies or not. It's important that you have seized the territory and obtained such a huge amount of money and food. This is the big thing that makes you happy for your father."

Speaking of this, he glanced at Li Deqing carefully and continued, "However, Cui Qinggong's food and grass base was occupied, and he will definitely return soon. We have not many troops, so my father decided to take back 20,000 of your 30,000 troops to defend Cui Qinggong with all his strength. You can take 10,000 troops to capture Peng and other three counties, which may be possible?"

"My father has orders, and the child will never refuse!" Li Deqing took out the golden arrow in his arms and placed it on the table without any hesitation.

Li Huaixian picked up the golden arrow, nodded proudly, and thought to himself: "Fortunately, he took back his military power in time and did not cause any consequences!"

Suddenly, he seemed to hear a vague sound of killing in the distance. His face changed drastically and he shouted, "What's going on?"

Li Deqing also turned pale and said in a lost voice: "Oh no, this must be Fu Li, Ma Dawei coming to help Zhou Li, I'll go and take a look!"

After saying that, he strode away from the coach's tent. How could Li Huaixian allow him to leave? He shouted, "Stop for me!"
To be continued...