Honghuang: Senior Brother of the Chan Sect, I am Guangchengzi

Chapter 276: Beibohou's Expedition to Jizhou

Ji Chang and his entourage had not been stationed there for long when Chonghouhu led a large army to the front of Jizhou City.

I saw this army roaring with cannons and blaring gongs along the way. The sound of the cannons was like spring thunder in the vast ocean, the sound of the gongs was like thunderbolts in front of a thousand-foot mountain, the flags fluttered like spring willows, and the banners floated like colorful clouds covering the sun.

The swords and spears flashed cold air, as if the snow in the three winter months covered the ground. The swords and halberds emitted a chilling chill, as if the autumn frost in September covered the ground. The murderous aura locked the rooftop, the faint red clouds covered the blue shore, the ten-mile ocean rolled with waves, and a mountain of soldiers emerged from the ground.

The army marches forward, with all kinds of luck following it. No matter you have achieved the Taiyi Dao Fruit or transformed into a Daluo real body, all of them have to retreat and dare not confront it for even a moment.

Chonghouhu sat on the sedan chair and waited for the sentry to come and report before he opened his eyes slightly. He saw the sentry report: "The troops and horses have arrived in front of Jizhou City. Please give military orders to make the decision." After hearing this, Chonghouhu ordered to set up camp, obviously prepared for a long struggle.

He saw a reed-leaf-tipped steel spear on the left, a moon-shaped Xuanhua axe on the south, a horse-brake goose-feather knife on the west, and a yellow-flowered hard-handled crossbow on the north; and eighteen kinds of weapons were fully available. Only then did he send an envoy to Jizhou.

Su Hu also saw the attacking army and knew that it might be the Northern Marquis Wang Chonghouhu, so he summoned this man into the palace.

Su Hu asked, "Who is coming?"

The messenger replied, "I am an envoy of the Northern Marquis Chonghouhu. I came here only to persuade him to surrender. The Northern Marquis said that if Lord Su Hu is willing to surrender and offer Daji to the palace, he can go and plead with the king.

But if you insist on going your own way and are determined to rebel, don't blame me for not remembering our past friendship after you are caught. In the future, it will be even harder for the moon to be full. I will kill you on the battlefield and capture Daji alive and present her to the court."

Upon hearing this, no matter how good-tempered Su Hu was, he could not help but get furious and said, "That Beibohou usually ignores many of us princes. Today, instead of saying anything nice to us, he threatened us first!
Do you really think that the men of Jizhou have no swords and can only rely on women to seek peace? Then he is really wrong! Besides, the Beibohou has always been unrighteous and difficult to convince people. This is a good opportunity to kill him and get rid of the harm to the people! "

The messenger had more to say, but Su Hu was too lazy to listen. He waved his hand and killed him immediately.

Although two countries are at war and do not kill envoys, it depends on the situation. Right now they are at war to the death, so how can they care about these things?
When Chong Houhu heard that the envoy was killed, he was very angry. He immediately ordered his troops to surround the Jizhou princes' mansions. Su Hu was not to be outdone. With the sound of a cannon and the cry of killing, all the generals obeyed his orders.

All kinds of weapons were brought out of the city, and the soldiers and horses were lined up in a row. Su Hu shouted, "Send the generals in and let the commander answer the questions!"

This is actually normal. Although two armies have to use tricks when fighting, this conversation at the gate has always been a thing that can boost the morale of the army. It is for the generals of the two sides to fight each other.

If his general killed the enemy, it would be even more powerful and impressive. Chong Houhu also ordered the generals to go there in person and lead them out of the camp.

Behind him, two flags embroidered with dragons and phoenixes were unfurled to show that he was an army of the kingly way and had a legitimate reason to go to war, so as to suppress the arrogance of the Jizhou army.

As expected, as soon as the two flags were unfolded, some people began to feel uneasy.

These people were none other than the generals of Jizhou.

They have always been trusted by Su Hu, who offers them wine, meat and vegetables every day, without stopping. They have made great contributions in the past, but today they are a little scared.

It’s not that they don’t have courage in their hearts, but fighting against foreign enemies is different from fighting against the royal army.

Even if the former died, they would have no regrets, but the latter was born to make people feel cold in their hearts, and they dared not confront them at all. This was the reason why they started out without a name.

Apart from soldiers like the death squad, few people can ignore the influence of royal power. This is why dynasties can only be changed in times of chaos, because ordinary people can no longer survive and naturally will not care about royal power.

Su Hu obviously noticed the reactions of these soldiers and felt a sinking feeling in his heart, but he still brought his eldest son Su Quanzhong to stabilize the morale of the army, while Chong Houhu also brought his eldest son Chong Yingbiao to stabilize the situation.

This trip was also the first time that he had shown his eldest son to the public, so naturally he wanted him to make a name for himself.

In other words, if Chong Yingbiao did not have the corresponding strength, Chong Houhu would not have rashly let him come forward, which shows that he is also a rare general.

Su Hu looked at Chong Houhu, and saw that this Beibohou was wearing a flying phoenix helmet, a golden chain mail, a bright red robe, a jade belt around his waist, a purple horse on his hips, and a broadsword placed in front of the saddle. He looked very majestic and outstanding.

No matter how much Su Hu hated this prince, he had to step forward and greet him, "My lord, how are you? I am wearing armor and it is difficult for me to be polite. I hope you will understand."

Beibohou had a gloomy face, and he had obviously heard the previous words. He snorted coldly, "I don't deserve such courtesy from the princes of Jizhou. Half a courtesy will be enough. I may have to perform a full courtesy to Xianhou!"

Su Hu did not care about this, but tried to persuade him gently, "Your Excellency, you are joking. The emperor today is immoral, he cares less about virtue and more about beauty. He does not consider the foundation of the country and the security of the nation, but instead listens to the words of the treacherous and greedy people, and wants to force the daughter of a minister to be his concubine.

Such debauchery and indulgence in wine and women are clearly a sign of unrest in the world. I am stationed at the border and do not want to get involved in this matter. I wonder why the wise lord mobilized this unknown army to attack the men of Jizhou?"

Chong Houhu was furious when he heard this and said, "You disobeyed the emperor's order and wrote a poem of rebellion on the Meridian Gate. You are the biggest traitor and your crime is unforgivable. How can you have the face to call others treacherous and treacherous?

Today I was summoned to question you, and you should have knelt at the gate and bowed your head, but now you are speaking flattering words. Are you so proud of your strong army that you despise me?"

After Chonghouhu finished speaking, he turned around and asked, "Who will capture this traitor?" without listening to Su Hu's excuses.

After that, a soldier jumped out from the upper left and said sternly: "I am willing to lead the charge. I hereby sign a military order to capture this traitor and hand him over to the princes!"

Chong Houhu looked up and saw that the man was wearing a phoenix-wing helmet, golden armor, a bright red robe, a lion belt around his waist, and riding a green horse. He looked like a promising young man, a heroic young general.

This made him nod slightly and praise: "Are you the deputy general Mei Wu?"

Mei Wu didn't expect Chonghouhu to remember his name. He was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly. Chonghouhu smiled and said, "If you can really accomplish this great feat, I will report it to the king and grant you a great feat in battle. It is not impossible for you to be my equal in the future."

Even though he knew that this was just a polite remark, Mei Wu was still excited and immediately rode forward on his green horse to challenge the enemy.

This battle is the first one. If Mei Wu wins, the Beibo army, which is already in high morale, will become even more courageous, and the morale of Jizhou, which is already insufficient, will be further suppressed.

So in order to ensure smooth progress, Su Quanzhong volunteered to take the lead and immediately go to fight.

Mei Wu recognized Su Quanzhong and shouted, "Su Quanzhong, you and your son rebelled and offended the emperor, but you don't know how to turn against the emperor and confess your guilt. Instead, you resist the emperor's soldiers. This is courting the annihilation of your clan!" However, Su Quanzhong was too lazy to pay attention to him. He immediately spurred his horse and waved his halberd, trying to stab him in the head. Mei Wu also raised the axe in his hand to meet the attack.

These two great generals both had heroes among them, and when they were fighting in front of the battlefield, the soldiers on both sides beat the gongs and drums to cheer for their own soldiers.

Because of the war in the world, heroes are fighting each other, who can tell who is better and who is worse? You erase my name from the Lingyan Pavilion, and I will take you to draw shadow puppets in front of the Danfeng Tower.

When the axe comes, the halberd will go around the body a little, like a phoenix shaking its head; when the halberd goes, the axe will meet it, not leaving the cheek, just passing the forehead.

After just twenty rounds, Mei Wu let out a loud cry and swept his axe horizontally, but Su Quanzhong seized the opportunity and stabbed him off his horse with a halberd, killing him instantly.

Su Quanzhong also cut off Mei Wu's head, held it in his hand, raised it high, and shouted: "Mei Wu has accepted the death penalty!"

Su Hu was overjoyed to see his eldest son win, and ordered the drums to be beaten. The Jizhou general also boosted morale at the right time. Su Hu took advantage of the victory and pursued the enemy, ignoring the continued fighting at the gate, and immediately rode his horse and swung his sword to kill.

Su Hu just shouted loudly, and suddenly the dark clouds in the sky cleared and the sun rose brightly. The Beibo army was caught off guard and was immediately killed and blood splattered like a river. Fortunately, the army had a large number of people, so they did not take this little loss seriously.

Chong Houhu wanted to train his eldest son Chong Yingbiao, so he asked two generals, Jin Kui and Huang Yuanji, to assist him. However, Chong Yingbiao had just entered the battlefield at that time, and his previous experience was just theory.

Faced with such a large army siege, he was unable to resist for a while and could only fight and retreat, and each retreat was ten miles outside the camp. During this period, Chong Houhu did not utter a word, and let Chong Yingbiao face everything on his own.

After defeating Beibo's army for ten miles, Su Hu realized that it was not advisable to pursue a desperate enemy, so he sounded the horn to call back his troops, returned to the city, went to the palace, and rewarded his generals.

After several rounds of drinking, Su Hu suddenly sighed, "Although we have defeated Beibo's army today, we will definitely gather troops for revenge tomorrow. We may ask for soldiers or generals. I am afraid that Jizhou is in danger. What can you do?"

Deputy General Zhao Bing immediately stood up and stepped forward to say: "My Lord, although we have won today, there is no time for war. Moreover, you wrote a rebellious poem the day before yesterday and killed a large army today. You have resisted the king's order and disobeyed the king's order. These are all unpardonable crimes.

However, there are more princes in the world than Beibohou Chonghouhu. If the court is furious, I am afraid that they will send several more troops to attack.

You all are very observant and should know that compared with the rest of the world, Jizhou is just a tiny place. If the armies of the rest of the world come here, it will be like a pile of rocks and water, and we will be in danger immediately.

In my humble opinion, if we don't do it once, we should do it thoroughly. Chonghouhu has just been defeated and is only ten miles away from Jizhou. We should take advantage of their unpreparedness, raid their camp and kill them without leaving a single piece of armor behind! Then they will know how powerful we are!

After that, we can find another vassal king to surrender. With his support, we will not be afraid that Jizhou will be conquered by the Shang Dynasty again. After all, Emperor Xin's words of expedition meant that Jizhou was in rebellion. But now Jizhou has returned to the Shang Dynasty, so Emperor Xin will have nothing to say.

You can't spread the word that you sent troops to fight for beauty, and then forced Daji to come to you. You can advance or retreat from now on. What do you mean?"

After hearing this, Su Hu's worry turned into joy, and he said with great delight: "Your words are very good, just what I want!"

This sneak attack strategy requires urgency rather than slowness, so Su Hu did not want to take a long-term view and ordered his eldest son Su Quanzhong to lead 3,000 troops to ambush in Wugang Town ten miles away.

The Beibo army was also discussing matters here.

It was because of his own fault that the army was defeated and even suffered a great loss. Obviously, he had the advantage of time, place and people, but still still got such a result. Chong Yingbiao felt ashamed and knelt down to ask for punishment.

However, Chonghouhu had always valued his eldest son, so it was naturally impossible for him to be punished so easily. In addition, other generals pleaded for him, so he backed off and asked him to wait until the battle was over before punishing him.

It was just that Beibo's army was outnumbered, and Chonghouhu felt ashamed. He secretly thought that he would lead the army himself next time, and Ying Biao could find an opportunity to train later.

Just when Chong Houhu wanted someone to warm up the cold wine in the cup, there was a sudden sound of charging outside the camp, which immediately shocked the army in the camp.

At this moment, dusk had ended and night was approaching. It was one of the rare darkest times in the world. At this moment, Su Quanzhong led three thousand cavalrymen to charge together. It was so powerful that the sound of war drums could be heard everywhere and booming cannons were fired everywhere.

When people heard the sound of war drums, they could only run in panic. When horses heard the sound of cannons, they could not tell east, west, south, and north. There were also swords, spears, and halberds inserted everywhere, red and white, and blood flowed like a river.

The sleepy soldiers rushed east and west, carrying their pillows and helmets without waking up.

The advance officer could not catch up with the saddled horse, and the commander of the central army was barefoot without shoes.

The army was in a deep sleep, the general was not awake yet, the officers could not catch their horses, and the commander was barefoot. However, the soldiers who robbed the camp were as brave as tigers, and the soldiers who charged into the camp were like dragons.

The swords, spears, knives and axes in his hands seemed to be full of spirits. The swords killed and pulled the shoulders and backs, the spears stabbed the arms until they were bleeding, the swords chopped the armor to burst, and the axes chopped the top of the head to burst.

The Beibo army only knew how to trample on each other, and horses collided with each other, with corpses everywhere. They had no idea to use the weapons in their hands to turn around and fight back. There were panicked faces everywhere, and everything between heaven and earth was dim, with only that sharp air filling the air. It can be said that the killing was so fierce that the sky was dark and the earth was gloomy, and there was no armor left.

The wounded soldiers over there cried out in pain, while the officers and soldiers here choked in silence. Some even went so far as to set the food and fodder on fire. The whole area was red, which made the people panic. It was as if the sky was falling and the earth was in chaos.

While these three thousand cavalrymen were in chaos, Su Hu had already mobilized his troops out of the city. Seeing the sudden fire in the distance, Su Hu took the lead and charged into the battle array to capture Chong Houhu.

Generals were protecting the princes all around, and the shouts of soldiers and horses on both sides shook the earth. Chonghouhu had just come out of the camp and heard the sound of killing. He immediately put on his battle robe, mounted his horse and raised his sword. He happened to see Su Hu, wearing a golden helmet and golden armor, shining with golden light, rushing towards him like a celestial soldier.

When Su Hu saw Chonghouhu right in front of the camp, he was delighted and shouted, "Don't run away, Chonghouhu! Get off your horse and be captured!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Su Hu swung the spear in his hand to attack his heart. Chong Houhu was caught off guard and quickly swung the sword in his hand to chop it diagonally. The two masters above were fighting fiercely, and the two horses below were also evenly matched.

The white horse is graceful, the red horse is mighty. You are a Ferghana horse that can travel a thousand miles a day and eight hundred miles a night. I am a fierce horse on the grassland, rushing east and west, fighting north and south. You open your mouth and spit out anger over there, and I raise my head and neigh over here.

However, the further the fight went on, the more Chonghouhu felt the strain was on him, and he gradually fell into a disadvantage, while Su Hu became more and more aggressive and gradually became more adept at it.

(End of this chapter)