The Ugly Empress《丑娘娘》Chou Niang Niang
The Ugly Empress, Chapter 78, vol 2 Chapter 32: The situation is over
Because Xu Jun Liang's personal army were fighting in person, the Feng army dare not attack. Xue and Feng states have the same strength. Winning the war depends on whose morale is better and which side can last longer.
The Feng state did not dare to attack, which made Teng Yun have the spare time to look after the injury, and Xue Jun Liang also fulfilled his wish to come to the barracks, because he was worried about Teng Yun’s injury, and this was before the battle, and he could be attacked at any time. Xue Jun Liang was light and heavy, and never moved again.
Teng Yun has a habit of patrolling before the battle every day. Since he was injured, Zhao Tong has been working for him to see if the enemy stratagem has changed.
Now that they have decided to bring Qi Zi Jie's army to the north bank of the Shui River, they have begun to prepare for it. The barracks must be relocated. The current barracks need to be filled out as a cover to attract Qi Zi Jie's attention.
Teng Yun and his generals studied the terrain on the north bank and decided to set up the barracks to the west. Because they had to respond to the Zheng'an army in the East, they could not only confuse the enemy, but also effectively intercept them.
At the same time, Teng Yun sent people to Zheng’an to notify Teng Xin and the three of the He Family’s brothers, so that they could secretly adjust the troops and prepare to intercept the troops before and after the Shui River army.
Zhao Lu was on The Gazing River slope and kept the opening in the lower reached of the Shui River. Even if the Feng army escaped to the Gazing River slope, it could be found on the mountain by Zhao Lu's soldiers and horses.
But Xue Yu in the upper reached heard about the strategy of Marquis of Tengnan, and he also wanted to raise his army to intercept the rear road of the Feng army. Lang Jing stopped Xue Yu, then he said, “Why do you need to do more? As long as the Feng army went to the north bank, it will be surrounded on three sides and facing the water behind him, it's already a dead man chess game. If the Lord sends his troops to cross the river at this time and gives the Feng army's backup a hard fight, the effect will be better."
Xue Yu heard what he said, and Lang Jing said: "Qi Zi Jie is careful to use his troops, and he will surely protect the Shui River. Because of his caution attitude, he has invested too many troops in the Shui River, and the hinterland of the Feng state is empty without much protection. As long as there’s a sufficient army, it can take the hinterland directly. If the army breaks through the Imperial city first and catches Emperor Feng, the Xue State's emperor won't lose the lord's affection."
Xue Yu's eyes were bright at this time, and he said with a smile, "Just do what you say."
In response, Lang Jing turned and left the door to order some soldiers. Although Xue Yu felt happy, he could finally let Xue Jun Liang see his ability. However, the Xue army was not familiar with the hinterland of the Feng state, and it was also a question of who would defend the city when he transferred his troops. These problems naturally were forgotten to be considered by the careless Xue Yu. As a supporter, Lang Jing, of course, needs to think about them one by one.
The spy reported to Xue Yu that the Feng army seemed to have made a move and may attack in the next few days, which made Xue Yu extremely excited. As long as the Feng army attacks the Shui River, he can seize the trouble chaos and let the soldiers cross the Shui River to catch Emperor Feng.
It's late at night, because the small county is facing the water, and its cold at night. Xue Yu was too excited to sleep, so he put on his clothes and got ready to go out for a walk.
After a few rounds of stamping in the yard, Xue Yu could hardly sit still as long as he thought he could make contributions and let him scratch his eyes. He looked up and saw that the light was on in the study of the yard. Xue Yu was confused and thought he was a thief.
He held his breath and walked over. The study was not big. He could see the figure reflected on the window. Xue Yu could not be more familiar with this person, but he recognized it at a glance. He pushed them aside, and Lang Jing looked up at them. Their eyes just collided.
Lang Jing quickly got up and said, “Why hasn't the Lord had a rest?"
Xue Yu took a look at him. He was dressed neatly. There were official documents of different sizes on the desk and maps for painting. He was not ready to rest at first sight. He didn't seem to be able to sleep.
Xue Yu said, “It's so late, what are you looking at?"
Lang Jing said, “Looking at the topographic map of the Feng state.”
Xue Yu said, “Oh? It seemed that you are not at ease."
“I am." Lang Jing suddenly smiled and said: “The Feng state is rainy and wet at this time. When soldiers arrive in the Feng state, they may not be able to fight against the local conditions. Has the Lord ever thought about this? The Peng County is a fortress. The Feng army is likely to attack again and transfer its troops. Who will defend the city? Has the Lord thought about this? The deployment of troops needs to be done in secret, so the Feng army can't see the horse's feet. If the horse's feet are revealed, the Shui River will probably be defeated. Has the Lord thought about this?"
Xue Yu's face was a little gloomy and he didn't say a word. When he finished the last sentence, Xue Yu sneered and said, “What do you mean? Isn't that the strategy you put forward?"
Lang Jing said, “It was proposed by Lang Jing, so Lang Jing is preparing it for the Lord."
Xue Yu didn't speak, and Lang Jing said: “I don't think that the lord have thought about it. There is a sentence that Lang Jing always wanted to say, but he doesn't like to say if it angers the Lord. The Lord is not fit to be an emperor. You don’t have comprehensive."
Xue Yu glared at him and said, “Do you want to seize the palace when you think so comprehensively?"
Lang Jing said with a smile: “The Lord told a joke. Lang Jing was not born with such ambition. Besides, Lang Jing is tired and could only make the Imperial court official."
Xue Yu stared him with surprise for the first time. Although the usual Lang Jing was respectful and listened to what he said, he never smiled. No matter who he was, he would give his face.
“Please come back, Lord.” Lang Jing said. “We need to transfer troops these days. It's only now when we have a rest earlier."
Xue Yu said, “I'll go to have a rest and let you read the map and the military books. Do you want me to be an immortal?"
"Lang Jing naturally dare not have such a mind Lang Jing hoped that it would be too late for the Lord to be wandering."
“Don't flatter me, and don't talk too much nonsense. Did you think of a solution to the three things you just said?"
Xue Yu said as he closed the door and walked up to the desk to sit down and look at the paper drawn by Lang Jing.
Hearing the news of the Marquis of Tengnan's recovery, Qi Zi Jie wondered, if it's really recovered, how can it be publicized in such a big way? He was afraid it's deceitful. Maybe it's the news that Emperor Xue allows people to spread, in order to stabilize the army.
In this way, maybe the governor from the Xue state has been dead for a long time.
Qi Zi Jie was careful. How can he send his troops at a loss based on his conjecture? Teng Yun asked his men to cross the river secretly to buy a small text book before someone in Feng State. He is greedy for money and they gave him a lot of silver. He told Qi Zi Jie that it is said that the injuries of the Marquis of Tengnan have worsened, which is irreparable.
Qi Zi Jie was overjoyed, so he believed and called the soldiers to discuss the marching.
The Feng state believes that the Shui River is their advantage. Although the upstream of the Shui River is in the Xue state, there are no big rivers in the hinterland of the Xue state, so it is impossible to use the navy army. The troops who have not practiced, are not used to navy warfare. When they arrive on the ship, they are like children who cannot walk and cannot fight.
So they need to use this to keep the front line above the Shui River.
The Shui River has been raining for two days. There is some fog. This kind of weather is not suitable for navy war. But the scout of the Feng army reported that Emperor Xue asked Xue army to line up with the Shui River. Every ten miles a village was built. The battle line was very long.
Qi Zi Jie thought it must be the enemy's sudden change of commander in chief. He has been fighting with Teng Yun these days. He knew that Teng Yun is a formidable player. Now, whether it is Teng Yun who is really seriously injured and the army changes the commander in chief, or Emperor Xue who came to take the dictatorial power, in any case, this kind of encampment is a confusing for the strategists. Don't march at this time, wait for the Xue State changed the camp to fight again.
Teng Yun knew that Qi Zi Jie would be impatient to attack when he saw the deployment of the Xue army, so that the soldiers were ready to watch the Shui River at any time, no matter in the daytime or in the evening.
The fog hasn't gone away, Qi Zi Jie thought it's a favorable condition. He can sneak on Xue army when they can't see clearly in the fog.
According to the sentinel, there seemed to be a ship coming from the Shui River. It's the moment when Teng Yun and others were waiting for him to fight.
Xue Jun Liang couldn't go to the Shui River naturally. Teng Yun ordered a team of people to follow Xue Jun Liang, protect the holy driver, and then left with the brigade.
Xue Jun Liang personally boarded the sentry tower and watched the battle of the Shui River.
The Shui River was still in the fog. Qi Zi Jie was just beginning to be satisfied. At this time, he had no worry in his heart, but soon saw Xue army fighting.
Xue army's ship was lined up horizontally, as if to stop the way of the Feng army. It seemed that his morale was extraordinary, but Qi Zi Jie saw it and was filled with great joy.
Didn't Xue Jun let himself arrange bowmen to shoot them in such an array? The bull's-eye is so wide that even if the fog is too big to see clearly, the chance of hitting a target is not small.
Qi Zi Jie now arranges a bowman to shoot at Xue Jun Liang.
Teng Yun has been prepared for a long time. He told Zhao Tong to make a shed for each boat. When the arrow came, it will not reach people. At most, it will be tied on the shed.
After about half an hour, Xue army's boats had been riddled with holes. Teng Yun asked Zhao Tong to beat the drums and let the soldiers pretend to be confused. It seemed that they were preparing to march in the chaos.
At this time, the ships on both sides were close together. Zhao Tong took a long gun and went to fight alone.
When Qi Zi Jie saw that the enemy had a great general to fight, he ordered people to fight. Unexpectedly, Zhao Tong was injured and retreated after a few rounds. The Feng army sent people to fight again. Xue army was still in chaos.
After killing another general of the Feng state, Zhao Tong thought it was almost the same. He pretended to be out of strength and began to drag his hands and feet. Qi Zi Jie was so happy that he still sent people to fight him. Zhao Tong threw himself aside when hiding his knife. He stumbled on the sole of his foot and fell down Shui River with a sound of "putong".
Teng Yun saw the situation on the ship and asked the soldiers to continue beating drums and keep the fog still. Although Qi Zi Jie knew that he had beaten Zhao Tong back, he still dared not march. He only continued to shoot arrows and heard someone shouting from Xue army in the chaos.
Qi Zi Jie sent someone to listen, and said in return that the commander of the Xue army was shot!
Qi Zi Jie boarded the bow to see for himself. Although it was foggy, he could vaguely see the chaos and escaping Xue army.
At last, the Feng army's General let down his worry and let the helmsman set sail to the north bank of the Shui River.
Teng Yun, of course, didn't get shot, just pretended to be the enemy. Seeing the enemy coming, he asked his subordinates to only pretend to be defeated. They fought all the way to the north and fled. Qi Zi Jie doubted him. After a long time, he finally caught the big fish on the north bank.
On the north bank, Xue army "fled" from the ship and fled all the way to the west.
Qi Zi Jie thought to the west is The Peng County. Xue Bing must want to escape to The Peng County and ask for support. He felt that he must stop them in time.
Qi Zi Jie led the Feng army to catch up with the defeated soldiers. Xue Jun Liang stood on the sentry tower and saw clearly that the camp was ready for the army to fight back.
Qi Zi Jie was running after the defeated soldiers. Suddenly, he heard the sound of the drum, he rushed out of the west. There are at least two or three thousand soldiers and horses. Most of them got off the ship and are not mounted. They were besieged head on. They turn around and run away.
Qi Zi Jie realized that he had been ambushed. He took a team of elite cavalry and quickly turned back. When he got back to the side of the boat, he saw the fire. Zhao Tong stalled his breath in the water, secretly got on the boat, set off a fire and burned all their boats.
There was no boat to cross the river, so the Feng army fled to the east.
The 5000 soldiers led by Zheng'an army, led by Teng Xin, had been lying in ambush for a long time, only waiting for the defeat and escape of the Feng army to muscle in and finish it, the Feng army was killed by Zheng'an army, who ambushed them on the east road.
At last, Qi Zi Jie, with more than 30 riders, broke through the encirclement of Teng Xin and went to the East. The Shui River had no place where he could pass to go back to the Feng state, but could only follow the Shui River, but then he was surrounded by the rear army of the three He Family’s brothers. How could less than 30 riders fight against 3000 riders? The three He Family brothers captured Qi Zi Jie without any effort.
Teng Yun, with his troops and Xue Jun Liang, asked the soldiers to tie up the prisoners and take them back to the camp. As soon as possible he wanted to bring Qi Zi Jie to trial, he listened to Zhao Tong: “General! The sentry found that a group of people had crossed the Shui River and gone to the mainland of the Feng state. "
Teng Yun was surprised and said, “Where are the soldiers from?"
Zhao Tong said: “It's not like the army of the Feng state. It's reported that it's the army of Zhenjiang marquis."
Xue Jun Liang said, “The army led by Xue Yu, how many people?"
Zhao Tong said: “There are a lot of people, but the Shui River has a lot of fog, so it's difficult to see the specific situation clearly. There are seven or eight thousand less."
Teng Yun said, “His majesty, it's not too late. I will ask for help to the Marquis of Zhenjiang."
Xue Jun Liang said: “Don't worry. Although Xue Yu does everything regardless of importance, so many people crossed the river quietly. It must be a masterpiece plan by Lang Jing. With Lang Jing, I think he had come up with a complete method."
With a pause, he said, "Zhao Tong, you need three teams and five thousand soldiers to cross the river on three sides, take over the Imperial City, and then find someone to tell Zhao Lu quickly to guard the Gazing River slope. That place was very dangerous. If anyone wanted to escape, he will definitely choose to go here."
After Xue army crossed the river, the Shui River was the life preserver of the Feng state. Although most of the defenses of the Feng state were deployed after the Shui River, the defeat of the Shui River weakened the morale of the Feng army, and more than 30 cities fell without fighting in a month.
Ten Yun with 1500 soldiers, Zhao Tong with 1500 soldiers, Xue Jun Liang with 2000 soldiers, and the vanguard of 1000 soldiers before Xue Yu, narrow and encircle from four sides, and pressed the Feng state imperial city step by step.
The Imperial court official Lu Shi returned to the Imperial court after the defeat. At first, the Imperial court official Lu Shi was not allowed to be reused by the Feng army, but later the Shui River was defeated. People were in panic. There were more and more capitulationists. Instead, the Imperial court official Lu Shi became the representative of the main war faction.
There are two people in the court who want to surrender, they were killed by Feng Ming. No one dares to surrender anymore, but the Feng state is gone. Even if no one dares to say it, everyone is frustrated and many people run away with their silver to the Xue army.
Although Xue Jun Liang didn’t like such people who rush to defect here, he can only be magnanimous and entertain them with good wine and food.
After all these things, Xue Jun Liang's reputation has been spread to the court of the Feng state. It is said that the Xu state's emperor is magnanimous and dignified, and there are more people who surrender their money. The next month, Xue army didn't lose a battle to take the Imperial city directly.
Xue Jun Liang surrounded the Imperial city and rode on his horse. Before the battle, the Feng army heard that this was Emperor Xue. He asked people to shoot arrows. But Xu Jun Liang was surrounded by the Teng Yun, Teng Xin, the He's brothers and Zhao Tong. How could they let Xue Jun Liang get shot? After guarding the city for a day and a night, Xue Jun Liang was safe.
Imperial court official Lu Shi persuaded Feng Ming to leave the Imperial city and retreat to the north. Feng Ming refused. He will defend the city to the death.
The Imperial court official Lu Shi knelt down and kowtowed: “Emperor Feng can't see it! If you don't leave, the officials you are facing up to will tie you up and go to sacrifice you and beg surrender!"
Feng Ming didn't speak, and Imperial court official Lu Shi said: “This Imperial court official is not afraid of death, but afraid of the emperor‘s death in his own hands."
Feng Ming finally moved a little. It seemed that he thought of something. He couldn't help laughing bitterly. Within three months, the whole Feng state was about to fall.
Imperial court official Lu Shi dispatched a team of soldiers to escort Feng Ming out of the city. By this time, the Imperial city was almost impossible to defend. Xue Jun Liang adopted the method of fire attack. A fire broke out on the edge of the city wall. The army and the people in the city broke up and rushed out one after another.
Imperial court official Lu Shi took the opportunity to adorn Feng Ming's coat, rushed out from the south gate and went all the way to the south. Some soldiers saw “Emperor Feng" and naturally sent people to chase him. Feng Ming and his soldiers left the north gate and went to the downstream of the Shui River.
Xue Jun Liang naturally did plan for this. An ambush had been set up near the Peach Blossoms pond. The Feng state's soldiers protected Feng Ming from a collision along the way. The terrain of the peach blossom pond was hard to walk, and the Feng army was scattered again. At last, there were only 120 people scattered around the pond, and they were ambushed again within ten miles.
Feng Ming's determination to die and not surrender has long been reported in his heart, but he didn't expect that at the time of the final crisis, only Imperial court official Lu Shi was left in the city, and only a group of private soldiers died with him.
Feng Ming was separated from his own soldiers. Looking at the scene in front of him were peach blossoms. He must have arrived at Peach Blossoms pond. Feng Ming is not only tired, but also tired. His horse fell down and broke down.
Feng Ming got up from the ground and looked at the Peach Blossoms pond. When he saw Zhao Lu for the first time, he was near here. Because he was small at that time and was not very tall, he was chased and killed. He hid in the reeds in the Peach Blossoms pond. When the reeds were exposed to the sun, there would be poison. Feng Ming fainted in the pond water.
He was rescued by Zhao Lu's parents, which made him know Zhao Lu.
Feng Ming's throat rolled for a while. He couldn't see his face. He didn't know whether he was crying or laughing. He pretended to be a powerful country leader, but he was not half as good as Xue Jun Liang.
Feng Ming walked to the pool step by step. The reed could not reach his chest. He reached out and touched the reed. He lowered himself and sat in the reed.
Zhao Lu received the report and said that Emperor Feng fled to the Gazing river slope with a team of soldiers. Zhao Lu knew that he would meet Feng Ming sooner or later. He was willing to stay in the Gazing River slope, but also wanted to hold the last gate of Feng Ming's life. He could not say that he would let go if he could not help himself.
But what he didn't expect was that when he led the soldiers to the Peach Blossoms pond to prepare for the fight, he saw Feng Ming fall down in the lush grass of the Peach Blossoms pond. He was unconscious
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~ The Ugly Empress ~
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