Da Wei Chun

Chapter 218 Half the battle

Hu Baozong's face was ferocious, and he growled sharply: "Didn't it be given to Li Yun, why are you still the main attack?"

Are you telling Hu Baozong that if you don't fight, thousands of Baijia soldiers will not be able to escape safely?

Li Chengzhi sighed slightly, and lied without blinking: "Do you know what a 'fake festival' is?"

What he meant was that Li Yun gave him orders as the governor of the West Road, and he only had to obey...

The so-called false festival, like the "Shangfang Sword" in the movie novel, is a talisman token bestowed by the emperor himself.The person holding the festival is similar to the "imperial envoy" and the "patrol of the Eight Houses".

However, Li Yun adhered to the lowest level of "false festivals". Before the war, or without specific charges, she was not allowed to kill officials without authorization.

But even if Li Yun only exercised the "right of restraint", no matter what order was issued, the officials below could only execute it.If you dare to speak too much, Li Yun will kill you on the charge of "disobeying the military order", you have no place to reason.

Don't look at a formal occasion, even Yang Shu's character who is not afraid of anything, and who dares to be angry when the king of heaven comes, can only shut up obediently.

There is also "Chijie" above the envoys, and the highest level is "Envoy Chijie". The talisman held by Xi Kangsheng is this level: he can kill officials below two thousand stones, and he can even report to the court afterwards without asking why. .

This is the so-called "cut first and then play".

How big is the official of two thousand stones?

Just like the governor of a state like Hu Shichang...

"But you, Lieutenant Xiaoguan, are double-appointed, can you not grant Li Yun restraint?" Hu Baozong said through gritted teeth.

Li Chengzhi stared at him like an idiot: "Do you know what crime it is for the Zhenjun to leave the border without permission?"

Hu Baozong's face changed suddenly: the crime is an accomplice to rebellion, and the barbarian tribe.

Showing off this level of identity can indeed temporarily counter Li Yun, but what about afterwards?

If no one points it out, if no one studies it, it will be fine.But the Hu family has already been outraged by the public, and most of them are those who wish Hu Shichang to die, wanting to pick out the bones in the egg, let alone such an obvious handle?

When the imperial court intervened, Gao Ping Town General Yan Ti and Deputy Town General Lu Gong were out of their minds before they dared to admit that Li Chengzhi was ordered by them to go to Jingzhou to recruit soldiers, otherwise ten heads would not be enough for the emperor to chop off.

In the end, this blame can only be carried by Li Chengzhi himself...

Li Chengzhi was inexperienced, so Li Yun reminded him.He didn't know that there was such a big hole in it, so at this moment, Li Chengzhi's teeth that hated Hu Shichang were about to be gritted...

He pondered for a while, and said to Hu Baozong: "So, I never showed Captain Xiao Guan's order from the beginning to the end..."

"You didn't show the letter? Without this level of name, where did the uncle get the main credit, and how can he protect himself?"

Li Chengzhi didn't speak, but just sighed softly, as if to say: What does it have to do with me whether Governor Hu is dead or not?

Hu Baozong was shocked, and looked at Li Chengzhi in disbelief: "You want to go back on your word?"

"Why do you say you regret it?" Li Chengzhi sneered, "I just found out that my Li family is also a deadly enemy with Gao Zhao?"

"How could it be... Li Yun told you?"

Li Chengzhi didn't say yes or no, as if he had acquiesced.

Hu Baozong was stunned, and muttered to himself: "Impossible...Impossible?"

Really impossible?
When I suddenly thought about it, everything was foreshadowed: Why was it the turn of the Zhao Ping Zhao family's descendants who were close to Gao Zhao, Yang Shu's brother Yang Chun, who would dare to kill people for the same crime, but Li Shixian only smoked one Hundred whips?

The same person, when meeting him, Hu Baozong, Zhang Jingzhi, or Yang Shu, all of them would not show any kindness at all, but if it was Li Chengzhi, one or two were closer than their own sons...

No wonder Li Chengzhi didn't even take out the official order?

The Li family had an enmity with Gao Zhao, which indirectly meant that they also had an enmity with the Hu family. With this premise, how selfless Li Chengzhi must be before giving credit to the Hu family?
If he recognizes the official appointed by the governor of Hu, what is the difference from "recognizing a thief as his father"?
Forget the fame...

Li Chengzhi looked around, and then said in a low voice: "But don't worry: Li Feng has sent an emergency order, Hu Qi has already divided his troops, and Liu Huiwang will definitely be captured and killed tonight... To wipe out these remaining thieves at this time will be tantamount to I have completely solved the difficulties in Jingzhou.

You have made a lot of contributions in this... If you are guilty at that time, you must have no fault. Your uncle Hu Duo, as the governor of Longdong County, is naturally innocent... As for Hu Inspector? "

Li Chengzhi paused for a moment: "Then forgive me for being powerless..."

Hu Baozong's eyes darkened, and he almost fell over.

The gods are here, I'm afraid they won't be able to save Hu Shichang...

But can you still blame Li Chengzhi for this?

Li Chengzhi is still a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, but he still cares about him, Hu Baozong, and didn't forget to give him credit?

This is the best of benevolence, too good to be good...

After thinking about it, Li Chengzhi patted Hu Baozong's shoulder again: "After you're done with your work, you can take those land deeds back first..."

Thinking about it now, how naive and ridiculous were those ideas at the beginning of the army?
It's just a small pass, and the relationship in it is so chaotic that his head is about to explode.Until the end, he couldn't even tell which was the enemy and which was the friend?
The pits are one after another, and if you are not careful, you will be caught...

In comparison, tens of thousands of catties of copper count as wool?
Politics is not something ordinary people can play...

Hu Baozong's face turned pale, and he looked at him with surprise and fear: "Are you humiliating me, or are you going to break up with me?"

Break up with a bird egg?
How could it be as simple as black and white?
"If you don't get things done, don't you have to get dirty? This is called Jianghu morality..." Li Chengzhi glared at him, and said coldly, "You can break off the relationship if you want, and we can talk about it after this battle is over..."

As he spoke, he pointed at the enemy camp again: "Do things!"

……

The stand-in sat on the high platform, wrapped in a silk quilt, staring at the Baijia camp in the distance with a gloomy expression.

The lights in the camp are lit up, and the smoke from the kitchen is smoky. It looks like they are cooking.

It seems that the white armor thief will not attack at night tonight...

A gust of cool wind blew, the double tightened the quilt, and sighed sadly: "Let the believers rest for a while!"

"Yes!" Fa Neng replied, hesitated for a while, and then asked respectfully, "The matter outside the pass has already been defeated, at most tomorrow, the imperial army will gather under the city... There is no hope of revenge, why is the envoy?" Want more branches?"

In fact, Fa Neng was complaining: If you and His Holiness could show up earlier, how could the situation be so bad?
At worst, Li Chengzhi has already been wiped out and the West Road has been opened, so why be trapped to death here?
"Just leave like this, are you really not reconciled?"

As if he didn't hear the subconscious in Fa Neng's words, the stand-in sighed deeply, his face changed suddenly, and he roared with ferocious eyes, "It's all to blame for Li Chengzhi... Even if he can't be killed, he must be bitten off Here comes a piece of meat..."

What if it is self-defeating?
Fa Neng was secretly worried, thinking that he would persist until noon tomorrow at most, and he must persuade the envoy to make preparations early...

Thinking about it in his mind, he was about to go downstairs to deliver the order, when suddenly his eyes lit up, as if a light flashed by.

Fa Neng looked up and saw that a mile or two away, the sky was full of flames?
no, fire dragon...

Looking around, it's like standing on the top of the mountain and looking at the fields below the mountain: the fields are connected with each other, and the fields are distinct.

As if drawn with a ruler, the fire dragons burned faster and longer, and the camp was divided into neat pieces in the blink of an eye.Then it spread to the middle, and after a while, most of the camp was covered by fire.

And it is still burning down the city wall very quickly...

The stand-in was startled and anxious, and asked angrily, "Who... who launched it?"

There was no order at all, and all the monks and guards gathered under the cloud car, who would have set off the trap in advance...

Just halfway through the thought, there was another earth-shattering roar from a distance, reflecting the flames, like moths plunging into the flames, countless vehicles rushed into the flames, the neighing of war horses, the miserable howls of people, sharp as if It's going to turn the day upside down.

Fa Neng trembled excitedly, and roared in a trembling voice: "It's the white armor thief... The white armor thief seems to want night work, but for some reason, he ignited the trap..."

"Hahaha... Li Chengzhi, you also have today?" The stand-in laughed wildly, "Pass me the decree, set up the altar..."

"Decree!" Fa Neng responded, and hissed downwards, "Dharma King has an order, move the chariot, ascend the altar..."

As soon as the words fell, three big drums rang out suddenly from under the cloud car, and then the eight bronze qin gongs uttered the trumpet sound of "woo woo woo".

Immediately, the cloud chariot that the stand-in was riding on, carrying eight bronze ox carts, and several flat carriages pulling more than twenty monks in white clothes, all moved forward together.

There are several torches on each car, illuminating the surroundings as bright as day.

More than [-] monks first chanted the Buddha's name three times, "Sparkle the holy fire, burn my sins. Wash away the dust and go to bliss", and then recited the scriptures.

Those monks, guards, and rioters, as if they were crazy, rushed towards the fire in the distance, with expressions of excitement and longing on their faces.

Li Chengzhi's face suddenly changed: These rioters actually want to set themselves on fire?

No, it should be self-immolation while tearing the white-armored soldiers into pieces...

Fortunately, I was more careful. At that time, when the monks and guards retreated regardless of the casualties, if they let the front line take advantage of the victory to pursue, it would not be enough to fill in...

Li Chengzhi took a deep breath, collected himself, and asked in a cold voice: "What scriptures are those monks reciting, the Sutra of Transcendence?"

Li Song listened carefully: "It's The Book of Saving People, which is said to have been written by Ge Xuan..."

No wonder……

Li Chengzhi nodded slightly.

He was curious, did the "Dream of Human Beings" exist in this era?

As for why the monk recited Taoist scriptures, he was not surprised at all.

You copied me and I copied you in these two books for more than 1000 years.

Li Chengzhi dares to assure that if the Buddha really can show his spirit, if he can go to the later generations to take a look, he will never dare to recognize it as "Buddhism"...

Shaking his head, clearing away his messy thoughts, he looked into the array again.

Hundreds of meters away, in fact, I couldn't see clearly at all, and I could only make up my mind: countless carriages were rampaging in the formation, and from time to time, the carriages rolled over and the horses fell to the ground.Then the "person" in the car rolled and was thrown out of the car and fell into the fire...

Just by hearing those screams, one can imagine how tragic the scene was.

Those who were lucky enough to survive seemed to be struggling with the traitors, and the sound of killing shook the whole field...

But in Li Chengzhi's ears, compared with the moment when the fire broke out just a moment ago, the screams and shouts of killing seemed to be much weaker.

He looked at the soldiers who were howling up to the sky ten feet away, and couldn't help wondering: How did those rioters persist for a whole half a day?

Seems like a lot of work...

Li Chengzhi raised his head again, looked at the smoke and dust that covered the sky, and even the stars and the moon could not be seen clearly, and said solemnly: "Li Song, the time has come, it's time to start..."

Li Song nodded, got off his horse, knelt on the ground and said in a mournful voice, "Don't worry, sir, I will live up to your trust... If you have two intentions, the sky will be struck by lightning, and your descendants will die..."

Not only was Li Chengzhi not moved, but his face turned black, as if to say: If your husband believed this, he would have died hundreds of times already...

He frowned, stared and cursed: "Mo Mo ha ha... Get out!"

Li Song kowtowed three times, got up on his horse, and walked into the fire formation along the path paved with wet soil.

In the corner of about half a mile to the north, there are a total of 4000 vans, pulling more than [-] white armored soldiers, waiting quietly.

Seeing Li Song's figure, Li Liang knew that he was about to set off. With a few shouts, he saw a wall of fire in the north go down at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it went out for tens of feet in the blink of an eye.

Li Song waved his hand: "Let's go!"

Li Liang nodded slightly, turned over and jumped off the horse, knelt down straight on the ground, and kowtowed three times towards the blood-red lanterns in the distance.

He kowtowed loudly, but his tone was very calm: "Your Majesty, take care... This servant will never let you down. These four thousand armored soldiers were born as members of the Li family, and died as ghosts of the Li family..."

Li Song couldn't stop sighing repeatedly.

Mr. Lang is good at everything, but he is too suspicious.

You are afraid that the servant will have two minds, so you don't think about whether the servant has this ability?
Look at Li Liang, is he saying goodbye to you?

This is nearly a hundred feet away, Mr. Lang can hear a fart...

He is expressing his heart to me Li Song: he will only be loyal to the Lord in this life!
This bastard is my nephew, Li Song...

When Li Liang got up, the car battalion set off immediately, and after a while, it disappeared into the night...

……

More than a mile to the west is Zhaimen.

Li Yun had already ordered his personal guards to move several cloud carts and put them together, and specially called Yang Shu and Zhang Jingyi to watch the formation together.

Li Yun's face changed when he saw the fire in the enemy camp, covering the sky and the sun in a blink of an eye, and the howls and screams piercing the sky.

Is there a trap?

He thought it was an excuse made up by Li Chengzhi.

The reason why Li Chengzhi asked himself secretly for the night attack may be that he wanted the Baijiaying to take the opportunity to escape at night...

But Li Yun never expected that Li Chengzhi would actually fight?
Could it be that he deliberately wanted to consume all those thousands of armored soldiers to death here?
With the thought, Li Yun's complexion became more and more serious, and his eyes became more and more serious...

If Li Chengzhi was really so vicious, how could he be praised by Yang Shu and Zhang Jingzhi as a holy gentleman?

It shouldn't be possible...

Zhang Jingzhi's face was black and blue, his fists were clenched tightly, his nails had already sunk into his palms, and his whole body seemed to be trembling.

He controlled himself over and over again: don't be angry, don't be angry... As long as Li Chengzhi is safe, so what if the Baijia battalion is completely broken?

As long as you pass this level, you will be able to summon another one sooner or later...

Yang Shu was shocked and angry.

Li Chengzhi said there was a trap, so there must be a trap, Yang Shu didn't doubt it at all.

But who would have expected that it would be so ruthless?
In a radius of three or four miles, the sky was covered by the flames, but there was not a trace of vacancy?
Those howls and roars were like needle pricks, which made Yang Shu feel pain in his heart.

Looking at those horses again, they looked like rats that had been oiled and set ablaze, frightened and flustered, running around, everywhere.

What's more, most of the horses are still pulling carts behind them?
In such a situation, let alone a human being, even an iron lump can be crushed by you...

Listening to it, the sound of shouting and killing seemed to have disappeared, and even the miserable howling was much weaker, and most of what I heard in my ears turned into "rebirth in bliss"?
If it was a white-armored soldier, even if he was already flawless and shouted to boost his morale, it would only be a scream...

Could it be that it's all discounted?
That's a whole four battalions...

Yang Shu's eyes were bulging, and his eyes were about to burst.

If it weren't for Li Yun, how could these white armor soldiers have died so in vain?

He gritted his teeth, wishing he could slap Li Yun a few times: "So, is Dudu Li satisfied?"

Li Yun ignored Yang Shu and just stared at the enemy camp closely.

The fire was too big and the smoke was too thick, so it wasn't very real, but at least you could see that countless horses and people were already burned, howling and running around the camp.

As for how many are rebel soldiers and how many are white armor soldiers, even if you lend Li Yun ten pairs of eyes, he won't be able to tell the difference.

But those carriages must belong to the Baijia battalion. Thinking about it this way, the four thousand soldiers that Li Chengzhi brought out of the battalion might all be folded in it?

Could it be that even Li Chengzhi didn't expect this trap to be so vicious, he wanted to pretend to fight, so he sent the Baijia camp out rashly, but didn't want to fall into an ambush?

The more Li Yun thought about it, the more startled she became, and she shouted coldly, "Go, take a closer look..."

He was about to go down the watchtower when he suddenly heard an urgent order: "The commander-in-chief has an order, the auxiliary soldiers should come out of the camp as soon as possible to stop the enemy..."

Has it reached the point of using auxiliary soldiers?

Yang Shu's eyes were about to burst, and he roared angrily, "Where's the four camps before? Where's Li Song, where's Li Liang?"

"I don't know for the time being!" Ling Bing replied anxiously, "The enemy bandits are getting closer and closer, and they can't even block the wall of fire, and they are about to charge over soon... The commander-in-chief even the brigade of archers who are the reserve team can't stand it." It has been sent up... there are only a dozen or so personal guards around..."

Li Yun's face changed suddenly: "What kind of attack are you still attacking? Back it up, let Li Chengzhi back it up..."

Ling Bing bowed his head slightly, and replied in a hissing voice: "Please forgive me, the commander-in-chief: the commander-in-chief has ordered that if he does not calm down this gang of thieves today, he will not retreat half a step..."

As soon as he said that, he urged the horse and rushed into the village.

Not to mention the commanding soldier, even the auxiliary soldiers watching from the wall did not take Li Yun's words seriously.

Following the yelling of the brigade commander, team leader and other officers, one team after another of the wooden armored soldiers rushed out of the gate of the village and rushed towards the fire formation.

"It's reversed...it's reversed..."

Li Yun cursed a few words, and hurriedly issued an order to the general: "Raise my flag tent, send an order to the camp, and come to support quickly..."

Following the sound of the response, the guards around him hung lanterns, hung lanterns, lit fires...

As long as the big lantern representing the commander-in-chief is raised and the fireworks are seen, the army five miles away will naturally know what it means...

……

There are indeed only a dozen or so personal guards around Li Chengzhi.In addition, the remaining five hundred soldiers were all sent out by him.

A few dozen feet away, five hundred soldiers formed a small horizontal formation: one hundred men per row, five rows, and the first two rows were archers. In addition to the quiver full of arrows, each archer also had a bundle of arrows at his feet. Rocket.

These are the more than ten thousand sticks that Li Zhao took to stop the enemy in the morning and brought back intact.

They have been fighting for a long time and have suffered many losses. Whether they are officers or soldiers, they have already learned how to be good.Fearing that one fire will lead to a large area, each archer should be at least one foot apart.

The last three rows are spearmen, all squatting down, pointing their spears obliquely.

This is to guard against the rebels who rushed through the fire wall and were lucky not to be burned to death.

There are indeed, but for the time being, there are only a few here and there, and most of them have been burned to death in the battle.

Even so, Li Chengzhi bared his teeth in shock.

The traps were spread extremely wide, a full two miles wide, and they were all set ablaze by Li Liang's archers.

So within the two mile radius, not only are there fire paths everywhere, but there are also hundreds of horse-drawn carriages running rampant...

But someone still rushed out of the formation, which shows how brave these rioters are?

It has been burning for almost two minutes, and the kerosene poured on it should be burned out. Seeing that the fire is getting smaller and smaller, I am afraid that there will be more and more rioters rushing out of the battle.

Not to mention that a few carriages that are still on fire will rush out.

So Li Chengzhi has long been prepared to retreat...

As for the rhetoric of "I won't retreat half a step", of course it was for Li Yun, Yang Shu and others.

Li Chengzhi's brain is not broken?
He was watching, when Li Rui galloped over and quickly reported: "Lieutenant Hu, please order, do you want to lead troops to fight?"

Li Chengzhi frowned: Hu Baozong wants to make meritorious deeds, is he crazy?
Didn't you see that there were still carriages running around in the formation?
If I hadn't added some "material" to the front wall of fire, there would have been "fire horses" rushing west?

I'm ready to retire, but you want to ask for a fight?
Is Hu Baozong's brain swollen?
Li Chengzhi replied coldly: "No!"

"Go back to him later!"

Li Rui replied, and then said, "Dudu Li mistakenly thought that my Baijia battalion was completely destroyed, and hastily ordered officers and soldiers to come to help, and came here with Zhang Sima and Yang Juncheng..."

Li Chengzhi pondered for a while: "Stop it first, just say that I will retreat immediately..."

It should be withdrawn.

What should be burned and what should not be burned are all burned. Unless a forensic doctor is invited to do a DNA test, who else can tell whether those charred corpses are rebels or white armor soldiers?

So far, the plan has been considered half successful.

So there is no need for Li Chengzhi to stay here.

And also must go back as soon as possible to remind Li Yun not to send officers and soldiers to die.

If it was changed to the morning, when he suspected that Li Yun was coming to deal with him, Li Chengzhi might take the opportunity to trick him, making Li Yun unable to cry.

But since he is one of his own, it would be unkind to dig a hole...

It's not that Li Chengzhi is arrogant, but that Li Yun can't imagine how crazy these rebels are without seeing it with his own eyes.

Treat self-immolation as reincarnation, and think you can go to heaven?
It's not just that his brain is broken... Li Chengzhi is a majestic master, who has been trained by his fiancée who is a Chinese teacher to have a level of tenth in Chinese. He couldn't find a suitable adjective for a while?
When encountering these lunatics, the inexperienced officers and soldiers are afraid that they will collapse immediately.

At least the White Armored Army has rich experience and knows how to deal with it...

(End of this chapter)