"Uncle, my nephew knew your answer before coming here. Since you still refuse to send troops, then my nephew will not say anything more. Uncle, you have difficulties and my nephew understands. My nephew does not ask you. My nephew just asks you Farewell, my nephew will return to the Huaishui battlefield with my younger sister, and fight thieves side by side with my father, even if I die in battle, I will have no regrets! Let me bid farewell, and see you again!"
The above are the words that Wang Xuanying held back in his stomach. He only waited for Chen Yingliang to reject his request for help again, and then immediately issued this awe-inspiring declaration. He took his sister back to the Huaishui battlefield to join Wang Shichong, and then waited until the third uncle Wang Shiwei's rear army arrived. On the Huaishui battlefield, the old Wang family will be able to defeat the rogue coalition forces that have been severely weakened and take the credit for themselves.
As for why he had to go through the motions, of course it was because Chen Yingliang was too treacherous and cunning. If Wang Xuanying took his sister and left without saying goodbye, it would probably make Chen Yingliang understand that major changes had taken place in the Huaishui battlefield, and that the Sui army in Jiangdu no longer needed Qiaojun. Sui army reinforcements were able to break through the bandit army alone, causing Chen Yingliang, an extremely shameless uncle, to immediately raise troops to the south, taking advantage of the fire to loot and steal the credit.
Wang Xuanying soon discovered that something was wrong. When he once again asked Chen Yingliang to immediately reinforce the Huaishui battlefield, Chen Yingliang not only did not pretend to be sick as usual and refused, but on the contrary showed an extremely hesitant look, as if he wanted to agree , and it seems that some do not want to agree. Feeling bad, Wang Xuanying hurriedly said again: "Uncle, time waits for no one. My father just sent someone to send news that although our army defended the camp yesterday, the casualties were very heavy. Many soldiers were seriously injured. Whether the coalition forces will be able to defend the camp next time, my father is not sure at all. I also ask my uncle to send troops as soon as possible to alleviate the danger of our army!"
Chen Yingliang was really hesitating this time. What was the casualty of the Du-Li coalition army in yesterday's battle? To what extent was its strength compromised? He made a dangerous attack, but if he pretended to be sick and refused as usual, Chen Yingliang couldn't hold back his face at all. After hesitating for a long time, Chen Yingliang, whose conscience was still not eaten by dogs, finally made up his mind, nodded and said: "Okay, I will send troops immediately. My nephew can go back and report to Brother Shichong first, and say within two days, Our army will definitely arrive on the battlefield for reinforcements."
"What? Promised?"
Yuan Tiangang, Wei Zheng, Ma Sanbao and others next to him were all dumbfounded. They all wondered whether Chen Yingliang had a high fever and was talking nonsense, and he would agree to send troops for reinforcements when the enemy's situation was unknown? But what made Yuan Tiangang, Ma Sanbao and others dumbfounded was still behind. After hearing that Chen Yingliang finally agreed to send troops, Wang Xuanying not only was not overjoyed, but blurted out in surprise: "You really sent troops?"
"Of course." Chen Yingliang, who felt ashamed in his heart, didn't react for a moment, then nodded and said, "Nephew, don't worry, I've always been as good as I promised. Before sunset the day after tomorrow, our army will definitely rush to the Huaishui battlefield for reinforcements."
Wang Xuanying was even more dumbfounded, and tremblingly said after a while: "Uncle, what about your illness?"
"It's okay, I took two doses of good medicine today, and I'm sweating all over, and I'm much better."
Chen Yingliang answered very easily, and then Chen Yingliang finally realized that something was wrong—not only did Wang Xuanying not look happy at all, but on the contrary, his expression was extremely dull. Seeing this scene, Chen Yingliang, who had been relying on solving cases for a living a few years ago, immediately understood that the situation was wrong, and said, "However, I can't guarantee it. If Xia Dachong risked his life to intercept our army, it might take a little longer for our army to reach the battlefield. If In such a situation, my nephew must plead guilty to brother Shichong for me, and please rest assured that I will definitely rush to the Huaishui battlefield as soon as possible for reinforcements."
"This guy is playing the game again." Wang Xuanying was overjoyed, and hurriedly cupped his hands to Chen Yingliang and said, "Of course, of course, please rest assured, uncle, if your army is blocked by thieves and cannot reach the battlefield on time, we will I will also understand your difficulties, and I will never dare to blame you."
Hearing Wang Xuanying's reply, Chen Yingliang just nodded and didn't speak, Wang Xuanying was even more joyful in his heart, and hurriedly saluted and left, but Chen Yingliang didn't hold back, and asked Wang Xuanying to be careful on the road. However, just as Wang Xuanying was about to walk out of the big tent, Chen Yingliang suddenly said: "Nephew, I forgot one thing. Did the messenger sent by your father mention the casualties of the rebel coalition forces?"
Wang Xuanying pursed his lips, and then turned around and said: "Uncle forgive me, my father did not introduce the casualties of the rebels in the letter, but after all the rebels' coalition army has 50,000 people, and its strength is more than double that of our army. No matter how many casualties there are, they will definitely still surpass our army in terms of military strength."
Chen Yingliang nodded and stopped talking, Wang Xuanying took his leave again and left. As soon as Wang Xuanying left, Yuan Tiangang and Ma Sanbao immediately approached Chen Yingliang, and said in unison: "Deputy envoy, do you see that something is wrong with Wang Xuanying just now? They say they are asking for help from us, but in fact they seem unwilling to send troops immediately."
"Of course I can see it." Chen Yingliang said with a sneer: "And I can be sure that there must be a major change in the Huaishui battlefield that is very beneficial to Wang Shichong, so Wang Xuanying came to me to try to catch him. I will continue to stand still!"
"What major change?" Yuan Tiangang asked happily.
"I don't know." Chen Yingliang shook his head, then smiled and said, "But it's okay, when we get to the Huaishui battlefield, we will understand everything!"
After smiling, Chen Yingliang stood up abruptly, and shouted, "Cheng Yaojin and Ma Sanbao listen to the order, and you two will immediately lead a thousand troops to attack together to attack the rebellious bandit Xia Dachong. Break through the bandit camp for me, and open up the way for our army to go south!"
"promise!"
Cheng Yaojin and Ma Sanbao clasped their fists and sang promises without hesitation, and then rushed out of the tent to organize an army attack. Chen Yingliang ordered Kan Leng, Niu Jinda, and Li Yi to gather the rest of the army and take only ten days of food, grass and light vehicles. He personally led the rear army, set off immediately, and asked Chuan Xiao to go to the Huaishui battlefield a hundred miles away before Shenshi the next afternoon, without any delay! Kan Leng, Niu Jinda and other generals, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, clasped their fists and sang promises, and immediately left the tent to prepare to go, leaving Chen Yingliang sneering in the big tent of the Chinese army, "Wang Shichong, old thief, wants to take advantage of me? Now I know how powerful it is." Bar?"
In no time, Ma Sanbao and Cheng Yaojin led two thousand troops out of the camp and marched eastward, and rushed towards the camp of the rebel Xia Dachong thirty miles away. In order to gain time to complete the task as soon as possible, Cheng Yaojin led four The cavalry of the regiment marched eastward with all their strength, and Ma Sanbao led the infantry to follow behind. The Qiaojun generals and soldiers who had been preparing for a long time were all vying for the first, and they accelerated their horses and whipped their whips at an extremely fast speed. The more than 800 cavalry led by Cheng Yaojin could only It took more than an hour to rush to Xia Da Chong's camp.
At the same time, after hearing the news of the Qiaojun army's attack, Xia Dachong actually led the army out of the camp to fight. As a result, this also gave the famous fierce general Cheng Yaojin a chance to show his skills. Already leading more than 800 cavalry to attack Xia Dachong's central army directly, the bandit army was shocked and rushed to fight, but Cheng Yaojin singled out three bandit generals one by one to dismount. Tiger's Qiaojun cavalry rushed in all directions, Xia Dachong was frightened, and took the lead to run for his life. Cheng Yaojin led his army in hot pursuit, forcing Xia Dachong to go around the camp and flee to the southeast without even daring to return to the camp. Qiaojun cavalry slashed and killed as much as they wanted, and defeated the soldiers who left the camp. When Ma Sanbao led the infantry to the reinforcements, the bandits who stayed in the camp were so frightened that they didn't even dare to defend the camp. The Qiaojun infantry took down the bandit camp without much effort—unfortunately, there weren't many decent loot inside.
The camp of Xia Dachong's bandit army was easily taken down. Chen Yingliang didn't even clean up the battlefield, and directly handed over the task of cleaning the battlefield to the brave people of Suyu Township. Taking advantage of the sun just beginning to set, Chen Yingliang continued to advance southeast with the army of Qiaojun It wasn't until the second watch at night that Chen Yingliang ordered the army to sleep in the open. At the same time, the energetic Qiaojun army was only fifty miles away from the Huaishui battlefield, and even more so from the bandit camps of Du Fuwei and Li Zitong. Only forty miles away!
Chen Yingliang, who had been hiding in Suyu for a long time like a tortoise, suddenly made a move, and the speed of the move was so fast. When the news reached the Huaishui battlefield, Wang Shichong almost wanted to kill someone. He even scolded Chen Yingliang for being despicable and shameless for taking credit for his merits at this critical moment. Members of the Wang family also roared like thunder, swallowing Chen Yingliang alive, and hanging him with one arm. Wang Renze, who was on his chest, was so angry that he smashed the case in front of him, and his roar could be clearly heard from the south bank of the Huaihe River, "I will kill him! I will kill this shameless little thief with my own hands!"
No matter how crazy the roar is, it is useless. After an unprecedentedly tragic life-and-death battle, less than half of the 20,000 troops Wang Shichong led across the Huai River are left, and there are so many wounded soldiers that there are not enough manpower to bury the dead bodies in front of the camp. It could be that a thousand civilians were urgently dispatched from Shanyang County in Nanan to help clean up the battlefield and clean up the corpses. The main force of the elite heavy infantry was even more casualties. Under such circumstances, Wang Shichong, not to mention launching an attack immediately to take credit for himself, even if he wanted to get an extra share of the pie in the decisive battle between Chen Yingliang and the bandit army, he was more than willing but not capable.
With no other choice, Wang Shichong had no choice but to settle for the next best thing, and ordered: "Separately organize the uninjured soldiers and the lightly injured soldiers into an army, and then transfer 500 Xiangyong from Shanyang. When Chen Yingliang's little thief and the rebellious thief are in a decisive battle, they can grab as much credit as they can."
Wang Shiyun, whose head was covered with bloody gauze, agreed dejectedly, and then said: "My dear brother, you have many ideas, can you think of a way to temporarily stabilize the little thief Chen Yingliang for a few days? As long as the third brother's reinforcements arrive, we will have hope." Get the most credit."
"I have plenty of strategies to slow down the army, but do you think Chen Yingliang, the little thief, will be fooled?" Wang Shichong asked with a wry smile, Wang Shiyun was speechless, and most of the wounded members of the Wang family were all downcast, all of them were heartbroken by Chen Yingliang, the so-called comrade-in-arms— Meeting comrades like Chen Yingliang, the old Wang family really did not accumulate virtue.
"The only plan for now is to hope that the two thieves, Du Fuwei and Li Zitong, can fight for some strength. Don't rush to run away from us and stay away from us for a few more days." Wang Shichong sighed, and then sighed: "Three days I don’t want too many, as long as they can last for three days, we can hope to win the biggest result of this war.”
Wang Shichong's family was just yelling and cursing. At the same time, in the bandit camp, the big bandits headed by Du Fuwei, Fu Gong Er and Li Zitong were hysterical, especially Du Fuwei, who was shot in the lower abdomen by the arrow. , ignoring that his wound was still bleeding, he smashed the table and just yelled, "Shameless villain! You are extremely despicable! If you have the ability, you should go south earlier, and wait until Lao Tzu and Wang Shichong are both wounded in the fight before you come here to pick up bargains. What a skill! Kill you, one day I will kill you shameless person!"
While roaring and roaring, the movement violently pulled the wound in the lower abdomen, causing Du Fuwei's face to turn blue and pale again from the pain. Fu Gong Er rushed forward to say hello, but Du Fuwei pushed him away and rushed towards the man who had just escaped from the front line. Xia Dachong, who reported the letter, asked: "How is the situation of Chen Yingliang's traitor team compared to before? Is the combat power increasing or decreasing?"
"Godfather, don't be angry if you tell me." Xia Dachong replied tremblingly: "Compared with the battle in Qiaojun, Chen Gouguan's team has obviously become much more powerful. Today, my son led two thousand troops into battle. Before it was finished, it was already overwhelmed by his thousand cavalry, if I hadn’t been riding a horse and running fast, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to come back to deliver the letter to you.”
"Chen Gouguan has so many cavalry?" Du Fuwei's face changed a little. Seeing Xia Dachong nodded solemnly, Li Zitong and Fu Gong Er beside him also turned pale. There must be no shortage of heavy infantry under his command.
Of course, if the rebel coalition hadn't fought Wang Shichong in the decisive battle yesterday, there would be no need to be afraid of Chen Yingliang's mere 5,000 troops. It is already more than half damaged, and almost all the survivors are wounded. They cannot fight in a short period of time. No matter how many auxiliary soldiers are left, they will be a mob. They are completely vulnerable to the well-equipped regular army, so even if it is He hated Chen Yingliang as much as Du Fuwei, so he didn't dare to think of fighting Chen Yingliang to the death again.
After thinking for a long time, the eyes of Du Fuwei, Fu Gong Er and others all focused on Mao Wenshen, the actual commander-in-chief. Unfortunately, Mao Wenshen, who used to talk about military affairs in the past, kept his mouth shut, and even his atmosphere was tight. Not daring to say anything, Du Fuwei had no choice but to ask: "Mr. Mao, do you still have any tricks to defeat the enemy?"
"It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and the students have nothing to do." Mao Wenshen replied helplessly: "Du Dawang, your heavy infantry and our heavy infantry have all been wiped out. More than half of the main force has been damaged, and most of the survivors are wounded. Some mobs with a small number of students, even if Zhuge Liang and Jiang Ziya come back to life, there is nothing they can do."
"Then you can't just sit and wait to die, right? If you have any countermeasures, just say it, don't hesitate!" Du Fuwei yelled angrily.
"If your majesty must ask about the countermeasures, there are only two ways." Mao Wenshen replied: "One is to run away, and the other is to fight Chen Yingliang desperately to find a way out."
"How to escape? How to fight?" Du Fuwei asked.
"If we want to escape, we can only flee to the lower reaches of the Huaihe River, where the water flow is slow and the population is sparsely populated. We can cross the river and go down the river there, and we will go to Liangyan City, and then try to make a comeback." Mao Wenshen replied: "The word of war is to gather all our soldiers who can fight. , and Chen Yingliang in an upright duel, defeated Chen Yingliang and then marched northward to plunder the northern part of Xiapi. But the students have spoken beforehand. I think that given our current situation, the hope of defeating Chen Yingliang is already very small. Although Chen Yingliang's troops are not many, However, we have been waiting for work and have been preparing for a long time. We just fought a hard battle yesterday, and our physical strength and morale were greatly affected. Meeting Chen Yingliang's new force is not a good thing."
"What Chen Yingliang? Chen Sangliang! Desperate Chen Sangliang!" Du Fuwei roared from the bottom of his heart, then took a few breaths, and then said out of breath: "Then run away, I am now There is no way to command the battle in this situation, and if we wipe out the rest of the army, we will have no capital to make a comeback! Run away!"
"If you want to escape, immediately!" Mao Wenshen said hurriedly: "Chen Yingliang came here very quickly this time, and he will definitely be here within tomorrow. There is not much time left for us to retreat. If we want to retreat, we have to leave immediately, overnight. Only then can we hope to preserve the most strength to cross the Huaihe River."
"Okay." Du Fuwei was able to listen to Mao Wenshen's opinion, and immediately ordered: "Brother Fu, you should make arrangements immediately, take food, weapons and armor and leave immediately, and don't want other rags."
Fu Gong Er agreed, and immediately went out to make arrangements. Li Zitong and Mao Wenshen also hurriedly said goodbye and went back to arrange an overnight retreat. Naturally, they had to discuss some wicked tricks during the period, let Du Fuwei's team resist the pursuers, and let their own team cross the river first.
Thanks to Wang Yingxuan and Wang Xueji's brothers and sisters, Chen Yingliang inadvertently caught the best fighter opportunity that could be met but never sought after. Even if it was an excellent fighter opportunity that would be missed one day later, a fourteen-hour battle had just ended. After the fierce battle, the wounds of the main force of the thief army who had only rested for a day were still bleeding, their physical strength had not yet recovered, their fighting spirit and morale were at their lowest point, and even the coach Du Fuwei was seriously injured by Liu Ya. Under such harsh conditions, the choice of escaping overnight was actually the smartest choice.
What's even better is that the Sui army in Jiangdu, who is close at hand, is also exhausted and unable to fight any more. They know that the enemy on the other side is already vulnerable, but they don't have the slightest strength to attack again and win the final decisive victory. Even after receiving the news that the main force of the rebels had abandoned their camp and fled, Wang Shichong could barely send an army of less than 2,000 to pursue them, and try his best to expand the results of the battle.
With such a good opportunity in front of us, if Chen Yingliang can't grasp it, he is not worthy of being called Chen Sangliang. Just after receiving the news that the rebels abandoned their camp and fled eastward, Chen Yingliang immediately led the Qiaojun Sui, who had only rested for more than two hours. At the same time, although Wang Shichong's pursuers caught up with the rear army of the bandit army, they were defeated by the bandit army who still had an absolute advantage in strength and were desperate to fight. The lives of hundreds of soldiers—everyone was tired and injured, and the bandit army, which had the upper hand in terms of strength and will to survive, certainly had no problem picking up Wang Shichong's pursuers.
In the early morning of the third day, the vigorous Qiaojun army finally caught up with the enemy at the Huai River ferry east of Lianshui. The commander of Du Fuwei's army was seriously injured. He didn't want to fight, and before the battle started, the team was already in chaos. The generals and soldiers rushed to escape, while Chen Yingliang personally led the army to charge, killing the main force of the bandit army, which still numbered more than 30,000. Spears, arrows and crossbows greeted the chaotic team of bandits like a storm, killing the bandits with blood flowing into rivers and corpses piling up like mountains. In the end, Du Fuwei managed to escape the Huaihe River under the back of Wang Xiongsaliva, and led by Fu Gong Er. The remnants of less than 1,500 people fled to Yancheng.
At the same time, Li Zitong and Mao Wenshen played another trick very cunningly. When Du Fuwei's team fought against the Qiaojun army, they immediately led the army to cross the river further downstream to escape. Unfortunately, Chen Yingliang immediately divided his troops and pursued them. In the end, Li Zitong still failed to find a chance to cross the river, and was still defeated by the chasing troops led by Cheng Yaojin. In the end, he could only escape across the Huaihe River with a few hundred people, and fled to Yancheng in embarrassment to join Du Fuwei.
In this battle, the Qiaojun army beheaded more than 8,000 people, captured nearly 20,000 people, and captured more than 5,000 cattle, horses, mules and sheep, and firmly grasped the biggest victory of the Huai River War. , When reporting the victory to Emperor Sui Yang, the numbers on the memorial are definitely much prettier than Wang Shichong. Thousands of miles away, Emperor Sui Yang can't tell who killed the elite soldiers and who killed the miscellaneous soldiers. But what makes Chen Yingliang most happy is not these, but...
"It's finally opened! It's finally opened!" Standing in front of the corpse of a bandit soldier in leather armor, Chen Yingliang, who personally charged in this battle, raised the bloody horizontal knife in his hand and laughed, "Heaven has eyes, from the east The battle to defend the capital has begun, and now there have been more than 30 battles, I have finally killed an enemy with my own hands and opened the business!"
"Deputy envoy, don't blame the villain for talking too much." A soldier said timidly: "Your knife was cut on the shoulder of this dead body, and there was a gunshot wound on the back of this dead body. Stabbed into the back of the heart."
"What else?" Chen Yingliang turned over the corpse with his own hands in some doubts, then Chen Yingliang took a look at the soldier again, firmly remembered his name and appearance, and decided to let him participate in the death squad mission next time.