Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 595 It turns out that Chai Shao is a top master!
the other side.

South of Cangwu is Yulin, the main base of the Song clan.

"Sister, brother-in-law, cousin... have you heard that Luoyang City has been captured? The troops of Li Mi, Li Jiancheng, Liang Shidu, and Yu Wenzhi have invaded the Eastern Capital together and captured Emperor Huangtai Yang Tong. The Sui Dynasty is over!"

Song Yuzhi's happy shouts were heard in the courtyard of the Prince of Zhennan's Mansion. However, when she flew into the front hall with her skirt flying like a yellow butterfly, she found that the atmosphere in the hall was very solemn.

His sister Song Yuhua clenched her fists, her whole body stiff, and stood not far from the door. Her originally dignified and beautiful face was filled with hatred.

A little further away stood Song Yuhua's husband Xie Wenlong. Although he was from Sichuan, he was extremely tall, with a broad back and strong arms, and looked very powerful.

Next to Xie Wenlong stood an old man with a tougher temperament, a square face, a high forehead, a cold expression, and an air of looking down on the world. He was somewhat similar to Song Que. He was Xie Wenlong's father, Xie Hui, the lord of Bashu Duzun Fort.

Speaking of the four major clans in the world, everyone knows about the Song clan, the Li clan, the Yuwen clan, and the Dugu clan. Apart from these four clans, the most powerful clan among the local tycoons is the Jie family of Duzunbao in the Bashu region.

For political interests, the Song family married Song Yuhua to Xie Wenlong. The Sui army led by Xiao Meiniang marched south to attack Song Que. The Xie family could not sit idly by. Not only did Xie Hui and his son come, but they also brought tens of thousands of elite soldiers to protect Yulin. Although... they did not think that the Song family needed the Xie family's reinforcements, they still had to show their support.

Standing on the other side of the hall were Li Xiuning, Hong Funu, and her cousins ​​Song Faliang and Song Jie. Like Song Yuhua, they all had unhappy expressions.

"Hey, elder sister, brother-in-law, cousin... why do you have such expressions?" Song Yuzhi couldn't understand. Luoyang city was broken and Xiao Meiniang's base camp was captured by the Jiangbei coalition forces. They should be happy, but why do they all look so sad?

Xie Hui said nothing, but stepped forward and stopped her at the door.

Song Yuhua said: "The matter can't be concealed anymore, let her in."

Can't hide it?

What can't be hidden?
Song Yuzhi was confused by their reaction, until he walked a few steps forward and found a box on the table in the hall. Looking closely, the object in the box seemed to be... hair?
Head? !
She took two steps to the side in confusion. When she saw the bloody head clearly, she couldn't control her emotions and screamed, "Second Uncle? Second Uncle!"

That’s right, the head in the wooden box belonged to her second uncle, Di Jian Song Zhi.

After Song Lu with Silverbeard and Song Shidao, Song Zhi with Earth Sword also died.

No wonder the atmosphere in the hall was so solemn. Her eldest sister was tense and trying to control her emotions. It turned out... it turned out... Song Zhi was dead.

Song Yuzhi's body swayed and she almost fell, but Li Xiuning quickly caught her.

"How could this happen? Why did this happen? Who did it? Who did it?"

She shouted with red eyes and trembling body.

With two strands of hair hanging down from his temples, Song Jie, who looked like a playboy, opened his eyes angrily and said through gritted teeth, "Who else could it be except Chai Shao?"

"Chai Shao? You mean Chai Shao?" Song Yuzhi broke free from Li Xiuning's arms and screamed, "Isn't my second uncle in Cangwu? Father has already cut off the food supply of the Sui army. How is this possible?!"

"How is it impossible? The facts are right in front of us." Song Jie said, "Not only my second uncle, but also my cousin Song Shuang... he also suffered from his murderous hands."

"Impossible, I don't believe it... I don't believe it!" Song Yuzhi covered his ears and screamed.

She really couldn't accept such a result. What level was her second uncle? In the entire Song family, his military strength was second only to Song Que, and he was better than her father in terms of strategy and shrewdness. This time he was stationed in Cangwu, the gateway to Lingnan, and even brought Shang Xiuxun, who could threaten Chai Shao, with him. The Song family had everything going for them, but why did Song Zhi die tragically? His head was chopped off and sent to Yulin?

"I didn't believe it at first, but..." Song Yuhua said in a deep voice, "The spies ahead reported that the Sui army had indeed occupied Cangwu City. Of the 15,000 troops brought by my second uncle, less than 800 escaped safely to Yongye County, and most of them had hearing loss and could no longer fight."

In fact, the news of Cangwu's fall had reached Yu Lin yesterday, but firstly, Song Que was not there, and secondly, the fact that Chai Shao captured the city alone was too shocking. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, she discussed with Song Jie and Jie Hui and concealed the matter. Now, Empress Xiao sent someone to deliver Song Zhi's head, and the vanguard of the Sui army has also set out to the south. Hiding the matter any further would only backfire.

"How did you lose? Second uncle...how did you lose?"

Song Jie was just about to tell her the exaggerated-sounding battle account brought back by the soldiers on the front line.

"Sister, cousin, look who's here."

At this time, Song Bang, with a turban wrapped around his head, came in with three people. Everyone turned their heads to see Song Yuzhi exclaimed, "Zi Ling, and... Miss Master, Master Fanzhai?"

Xu Ziling and Shi Feixuan nodded at her.

Fan Qinghui did not speak. After entering the hall, he placed one hand on his chest and greeted Jie Hui: "Master Jie." "Master Fan Zhai."

"Master Fanzhai, Miss Master, you came at the right time."

Song Yuzhi was about to cry to the two about the Song family's experience, but Fan Qinghui waved her hand and said, "No need to say more, I know everything."

She knows everything?
The fall of Cangwu City and the death of Song Zhi were confidential information in the entire Song clan. How did she know about it?
Xie Wenlong asked, "Master Fanzhai came here from Cangwu City?"

Fan Qinghui shook his head. He couldn't tell them that the three of them had foreseen through the He Shi Bi that Cangwu City would be completely destroyed by Chai Shao in one blow before the incident happened.

"We came to Lingnan this time to help the King of Zhennan..."

When she mentioned Song Que, she looked sad and her expression was a little complicated.

"That's great." Xie Hui said, "With the help of the master, Chai Shao will never have the chance to use his ultimate move."

"Chai Shao is no longer the same person he was before. We must not be careless. I wonder where the Prince of Zhennan is now?"

"My in-laws... Yesterday evening, my brother Jie Sheng went to Longzhou to give my in-laws the news."

Fan Qinghui twirled her rosary beads twice: "So, it will take some time for the Prince of Zhennan to return to defend Yulin?"

"Yes."

This was why Jie Hui, Song Yuhua and others felt it was a difficult situation. No one had expected that Song Zhi lost Cangwu before he could hold on for even a day. After the Sui army occupied the city, there were three ways to reach Yulin. One was to go south along the official road to Yongye, and then go east all the way to Yulin. The second was to go across the Shibiao Mountain road and go directly to Ningren County and the city of Yulin. The third was to go east all the way to Guiping, and then march southeast.

Especially the third road, where the mountain is flat and there is no strategic location to defend, so a large number of cavalry units can also advance.

Xu Ziling said: "Fortunately, the host had already prepared for it."

Song Yuzhi looked puzzled: "What do you mean?"

Xu Ziling looked at her and said something.

Everyone in the hall was stunned after hearing this. They didn't expect Fan Qinghui to have asked for help.

……

Everything that happened in Luoyang City was just as predicted by the advisers of various separatist forces. Li Mi, Yu Wenzhi, Liang Shidu, Liu Wuzhou, Li Yuan and others had been eyeing Luoyang covetously. Taking advantage of the moment when Xiao Meiniang led her troops to the south and the base camp was short of troops, they captured the capital of the Sui Dynasty in one fell swoop and captured Emperor Huangtai Yang Tong.

This immediately boosted the morale of Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei, Shen Faxing, Li Zitong and others, who believed that this was a sign that the Sui court was doomed.

However, the Jiangbei forces were only happy for two days before a piece of news spread throughout the world, giving them a wake-up call - Xiao Meiniang's expeditionary force captured Cangwu City, which was known as the gateway to Yulin and was a tough nut to crack even for Emperor Wen, without losing a single soldier.

It would be fine if it was a normal siege, but it wasn't, the situation was extremely extreme.

It is said that Song Zhi threatened Chai Shao with his wife and children, which completely enraged this senior official who had single-handedly brought disgrace to the Li family in Chang'an City. This time, he single-handedly killed more than 70% of the defenders in Cangwu City, and the remaining 30% either became idiots or disabled.

The large army led by Chai Shen was dumbfounded after entering the city. If the 8,000 people in the vanguard had not said the same thing, no one would believe that it was Minister Chai who did it.

You have to know that for one person to defeat an army or a city, normally, even the three great masters of martial arts combined would have to have the advantage of geographical location, but he did it.

Li Mi, Liang Shidu, Liu Wuzhou, Li Yuan, who had just captured Luoyang City and had not yet had time to divide up the Sui court's territory, and who were celebrating wildly, as well as the ill-intentioned Xiao Xing and Dou Jiande, were all trembling in fear, because the battle of Cangwu City proved that cities and armies were nothing in front of Chai Shao's inhuman Lion's Roar. As long as he was given a loud speaker, he could defeat one force by himself without any high-end combat power to disrupt the situation.

Liang Shidu jumped up and down and cursed Song Que for being a waste, saying that he had won ten battles under the city of Cangwu and made Emperor Wen dare not set foot in Lingnan. As a result, things went wrong for thirty years. Xiao Meiniang, a woman, led the army in person and cut off Song Zhi's head without losing a single soldier, and wiped out 15,000 Cangwu defenders. He was so embarrassed that he had wasted the good situation created for him by the heroes of Hebei.

Li Mi was much more cunning than Liang Shidu. After entering Luoyang, he kidnapped Yang Tong to his own camp. Later it was proved that this move was the right one. Imagine that with Yang Tong in hand, could Xiao Meiniang let Chai Shao use a big move against the Wagang Army?
When Yu Wenzhi realized what was happening, he sent his men to find the Chai family and prepare to take them as hostages, only to find that the Li family had already done so, but they got nothing. The entire Chai Mansion and Dugu Mansion were empty, not to mention Chai Shen's wife, not even the servants or retainers were seen. What does this mean? I'm afraid that the Chai family father and son had already anticipated the outcome in Luoyang.

The most interesting person is Liu Wuzhou. He originally deployed his troops in Jiyuan and Qinyang, north of Luoyang, and besieged the last Sui army around Luoyang in Heyang. In the battle to attack Luoyang, he basically relied on the strategy of suppressing the enemy from across the river. Until the news came that Minister Chai had captured Cangwu alone, Liu Wuzhou quietly gathered his troops, retreated 200 miles to Changping County, and gave up Henei County.

People like Du Fuwei, Li Zitong and Shen Faxing, who had previously coveted Luoyang but were out of reach, were no longer complaining. Instead, they opened their eyes and wanted to see how the expedition to Lingnan and the Luoyang Incident would end.

(End of this chapter)