"Trust Wang Zhao Zhen." When Wang Hong mentioned the name, everyone was shocked. The letter king Zhao Zhen defeated the Golden Soldiers, captured the area controlled by Zhao Gou of the Southern Song Dynasty, defeated several rebel heroes, and laid down this huge country with his own strength. Now he is the most powerful person in the world.
In particular, the letter king Zhao Zhen has won every battle since he started his army at Wuma Mountain. To fight against such a person, the generals of Wang Hongjun, who were always fearless and fearless, bowed their heads honestly at this moment, and no one dared to say anything anymore. In fact, the reason why they took the risk is because they also have a step back, which is to take refuge in the golden soldiers. Now, it is estimated that only Jin Ren can deal with Xin Wang Jun.
Now that Wang Hongjun’s generals are afraid when facing the direct crusade by Zhao Zhen, Wang Hong, how can Wang Hong not be afraid? To face such an ever-victorious king as his opponent, Wang Hong's heart also beats the drum.
But the matter is now, it is impossible for Wang Hong to surrender again and retreat back to the deep mountain and old forest. In the end, Wang Hong took a deep breath and said to everyone, “You don’t need to worry. I have been hiding in Jiangling for remote command. Therefore, even if there are reinforcements coming, but there is no Xinwang Zhaozhen among them, it is not impossible for us to defeat Xinwangjun."
Wang Hong's remarks were naturally just to comfort the people. They had also received information before. This time, Xin Wang Zhaozhen brought together the general counselors and personally led the troops to the battlefield to calm the chaos. However, for a while, Ma Cheng was the first to relax, and Shen Sheng said to Wang Hong: "Master Wang Hong, then we can only watch the other side fix the camp like this and become a stumbling block in our attack on Hanyang Military City. ?"
"Of course not." Since Wang Jun and Xin had torn his skin, for Wang Hong, there was no turning back. The only way to take down the Hanyang Army City is to bring the Hanyang Army's sphere of influence to its own jurisdiction. In this way, Wang Hongjun has the initiative, and has a strong city to rely on, and it will be much better in the future.
Immediately, Wang Hong bowed his head and thought for a moment, and immediately came up with a way, and shouted: "From this evening, you will each bring a soldier and horse to attack the soldiers and horses of King Xinwang outside the Hanyang Army city. Remember, you can’t force an attack, let alone attack Hanyang Military City. You don’t get caught in the trap laid by the enemy.”
The reason why Ma Cheng and Cao Cheng were sent to attack the two camps was mainly because Wang Hong still had a little hope, hoping that all of this was a trick played by the king. However, Wang Hong's expectations eventually fell through. Standing at the gate of the barracks, he watched Ma Cheng and Cao Cheng rush towards the two Xinwangyingzhai with two teams, but they immediately led to the letters of tens of thousands of people. The Wang Jun soldiers and horses.
Ma Cheng and Cao Cheng brought only a few thousand people. Wherever they dared to fight against each other, they just shot a few arrows in a symbolic sense and then turned around and ran away. Wang Hong looked at the majestic Xin Wang Jun, his face was pale, and finally he shook his head helplessly, and turned back to his handsome account.
At the same time, after watching the barbarians leave, in the camp east of Hanyang Military City, among the soldiers of the Xinwang Army, one of the generals was holding a spear and looked at the retreating Wang Hongjun soldiers coldly. He gave a cold snort and turned his head. When I wanted to go back, I found out that there was a middle-aged civil servant behind me. This general was no one else, but General Zhong Zhong, who was entrusted by the letter king Zhao Zhen with the important task of garrisoning the Hanyang Army. The civil servant who appeared later was Zhang Xiaorang, who was in charge of governing Fuzhou and Ezhou.
When General Zhong saw Zhang Xiaorang coming, he quickly saluted Zhang Xiaorang and said, "Master Zhang. How did you come out?" Zhang Xiaorang is the highest official in Fuzhou and Ezhou, and the coach who fought against Wang Hongjun this time. , Identity is important, this battle frontline has no eyes. Out of consideration for Zhang Xiaorang's safety, General Zhong will be surprised that Zhang Xiaorang has come to the front.
Zhang Xiaorang waved his hand indifferently, and said to General Zhong: "General Liu, it's okay. The enemy has retreated. How about? General Zhong, did the enemy see through?"
Seeing that Zhang Xiaorang didn't care about safety issues, and Wang Hongjun had indeed retreated, General Zhong relaxed slightly. Hearing Zhang Xiaorang’s question, General Zhong quickly replied: "Master Zhang, at the end everything will be done according to the arrangements of the adults. However, adults, will this be too risky?" At the last question, General Zhong's face showed hesitation.
Zhang Xiaorang smiled, and turned to look at Wang Hongjun’s barracks in the distance, and said, "Don’t worry, General Zhong. When I contacted Wang Hong a few years ago, I already knew this person very well. Although this person has great ambitions. , But it was more cautious and lacking courage. Before, I asked the general to bring soldiers and horses in day and night out, thinking that he was suspicious of soldiers, Wang Hong must think that our reinforcements had arrived, so he did not dare to attack Hanyang Military City. It can solve the momentary crisis. If we don’t act for a long time, Wang Hong will definitely see through my strategy. So this time I let General Liu and Generals go out of the city with soldiers and horses to camp. The purpose of containing the enemy is false and true. The purpose is to make Wang Hong mistakenly believe that our army has a large number of reinforcements. In this way, Wang Hong will definitely not dare to attack. I only hope that this trick can hold Wang Hong and wait until the adults' real reinforcements arrive."
"But, Master Zhang, even if this is the case, we don't need to empty all the defenders in the Hanyang Army City." General Zhong understands what Zhang Xiaorang said, but he still said with worry on his face: "There are only less than a thousand people left in Hanyang Army City. If Wang Hongjun really goes to force the attack, we won't have time to rescue it."
It was not without reason that General Zhong was so worried. This time Zhang Xiao asked General Zhong and the adults to take the defenders out of the city separately, but brought out all the defenders in Hanyang Military City. Today, there are less than a hundred newly recruited soldiers in Hanyang Military City. With these soldiers, if Wang Hong attacked, he would lose Hanyang Military City in an instant. In General Zhong's opinion, Zhang Xiao made this a bit too risky.
Regarding General Zhong’s concern, Zhang Xiaorang shook his head one after another, turning his head to General Zhong and said: "General Zhong, don’t worry. I have already understood Wang Hong’s temperament. This person looks impulsive and reckless. But the essence is very timid. Attacking the city consumes more troops, and will be attacked by two camps. This time I emptied the soldiers in the city, but Wang Hong was even more afraid to attack Hanyang Military City. , His courage is not so bold."
Seeing Zhang Xiaorang's affirmation, as Zhang Xiaorang's subordinate, General Zhong couldn't refute, he could only follow Zhang Xiaorang's arrangement. At this moment, Wang Hongjun, who had just attacked, had already retreated into Wang Hongjun's camp, not only on General Zhong’s side, but the adults’ side did not seem to allow Wang Hongjun to take advantage. After the two Wang Hongjun retreated, after a long time, Wang Hongjun didn't have any next steps. When he saw this, General Zhong was also relieved. It seemed that Wang Hong had made a plan, as Zhang Xiaorang said.
General Zhong turned his head and looked at Zhang Xiaorang, who was full of admiration. It was thanks to Zhang Xiaorang that the rebellion of Li Cheng and others could be suppressed. Nowadays, relying on the 20,000 defenders of Hanyang Military City alone, it is absolutely impossible to block the attack of the 100,000 Wang Hongjun. It is precisely through Zhang Xiaorang's strategies that can keep Hanyang Military City without losing. No wonder the adults would use Zhang Xiaorang so much, let him be in charge of Fuzhou and Ezhou.
As if he had noticed General Zhong's gaze, Zhang Xiaorang also glanced at General Zhong, laughed, and then turned and walked into the camp that had just been arranged. And as soon as he walked into his camp and saw that there was no one around, Zhang Xiaorang's composure that had been maintained before disappeared in a blink of an eye, and a lot of cold sweat burst out on his forehead.
In fact, Zhang Xiaorang was not completely sure about the plan this time. He just pretended to be calm and holding the winning ticket in front of the soldiers, in order to maintain the morale of the army. This time, Wang Hong put up one hundred thousand troops to attack Hanyang Military City. For Zhang Xiaorang, that was not a small problem. If there were other options, Zhang Xiaorang would not want to take this dangerous move.
Fortunately, all the plans were successful, and Zhang Xiaorang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. In this way, at least another five or six days could be delayed. I hope the reinforcements will arrive at that time.
Everything was as expected by Zhang Xiaorang. For five days in a row, Wang Hongjun outside the Hanyang Army City had not moved at all. Obviously, Wang Hong was really bluffed by Zhang Xiao's trick.
However, as time passed, Zhang Xiaorang's heart became more and more anxious. Just like the previous trick that used to trick Wang Hong into the night, it is impossible for Wang Hong to deceive Wang Hong for too long with this trick. . Now Zhang Xiaorang is already poor in skill, when Wang Hong comes over, everything can only be resisted.
Finally, on the sixth day, what Zhang Xiao worried most still happened. Zhang Xiaorang, who was discussing military affairs with General Zhong in the big tent, suddenly heard a loud roar from outside. Zhang Xiaorang and General Zhong raised their heads in astonishment at the same time. The two only glanced at each other. , Immediately rushed out of the big account.
After leaving the big tent, the two discovered that this huge roar came from Wang Hongjun's barracks to the south. Apart from anything else, Zhang Xiaorang and General Zhong both chose to rush outside the barracks at the same time.
Just rushed to the entrance of the camp. At this moment, there have been a lot of soldiers who heard the news. They have not yet seen what happened outside, but Zhang Xiaorang and General Zhong first saw those who were in the forefront. The soldiers' faces were full of horror. Suddenly Zhang Xiaorang and General Zhong's hearts were shocked, and an ominous feeling was secretly born. They immediately looked towards the direction of Wang Hong's army camp in the south, and at the moment they looked over, the same frightened expression appeared. On the faces of the two.
Because the camp of Wang Hongjun occupied Gaopo, even though the camp of Wang Hongjun was relatively far away, they were still able to have a panoramic view of the situation of Wang Hongjun's barracks. At this moment, Wang Hong's barracks are still the same as before, but there are a lot of more soldiers and horses in the barracks. Obviously, these soldiers and horses have just arrived.
Originally, if there were only more reinforcements, Zhang Xiaorang and General Zhong would not be surprised. As the saying goes, there are many debts, anyway, the number of Wang Hongjun is already large, and it makes no difference if there are more, but the problem is It comes from these extra soldiers and horses. Zhang Xiaorang and General Zhong could clearly see that these "reinforcements" entering Wang Hongjun's Ying from the south were not thousands of soldiers from Wang Hong, but an army of tens of thousands.
"Well, what's going on?" Zhang Xiao was so resourceful in this weird situation, he was also dumbfounded at this moment. The number of those troops is far beyond Zhang Xiaorang's previous knowledge and intelligence.
"Ah! I understand." When Wang Hong had just accepted reinforcements and was about to launch an attack, Wang Hong, who had been thinking about something before, suddenly shouted and jumped directly from his seat with a face. The appearance suddenly realized.
Suddenly, Wang Hong made such a voice, but it shocked the other people in the big tent. Everyone looked at Wang Hong with wide-eyed eyes. Wang Hu watched Wang Hong spin around in a hurry next to his seat, and couldn't help but ask: "Brother, what's the matter? What do you understand?"
Regardless of what people around him think of himself, Wang Hong punched his fist with an annoyed expression on his face and said, "Tricked! Tricked! Damn! From the very beginning, we were caught in the trick of the king. It is really cunning!"
Looking at Wang Hong's appearance, the people in the big tent were all confused, not understanding what happened. Fortunately, Wang Hong just turned a few times like this, and soon recovered his calm, and shouted to the crowd in a deep voice: "Tell me to order, gather all the soldiers and horses, and immediately attack Hanyang Military City."
This order from Wang Hong was to make everyone stay awkward. They were very anxious. Previously, Wang Hong gave the order to prevent soldiers from attacking at will, especially not to attack Hanyang Military City, so as not to fall into the treacherous tricks of the king. But why is it suddenly ordered to attack Hanyang Military City now? Isn't Wang Hong afraid of the army camps on both sides of the Hanyang Military City
When he raised his head and saw the doubtful eyes of everyone, Wang Hong also suddenly remembered that he had issued two diametrically opposed orders, and his face blushed. But soon Wang Hong returned to his senses and said to everyone: "We were all caught in the trick of the king before. In fact, the king has no reinforcements at all, everything is just the trick of the king's messenger."
"No reinforcements?" Everyone was even more confused. Didn't Wang Hong make a lot of analysis for everyone before? Liu Gao, who was most loyal to Wang Hong, quickly stepped forward and asked: "Master Wang Hong, didn't you say that it was precisely because King Xin sent two soldiers and horses to camp outside the city, indicating that King Xin's reinforcements have arrived? At this time when attacking Hanyang Military City, the soldiers and horses of the Xinwang Army on both sides will surely rescue each other, and then we will not be able to look at each other from end to end."
Wang Hong's cheeks turned red again. What Liu Gao said was what Wang Hong had said to them before. Last time Wang Hong relied on these words to convince everyone, but he did not expect Liu Gao to ask himself now. If it weren't for Liu Gao's loyalty to himself, I'm afraid Wang Hong is already killing Liu Gao.
Wang Hongqiang took a sigh of relief and said fiercely: "I was confused by King Xin's tricks before. If I guess right, there is no defender in Hanyang Army City at this moment. Everything is just King Xin pretending to want Procrastination. Okay, let's talk about the next thing later. Brother, Yang Feng! You will immediately take your troops to attack Hanyang Military City, and the late ones will change."
Originally, Wang Hong would usually give Liu Gao to handle this kind of task, but Liu Gao just got into trouble, and Wang Hong couldn’t get off the stage. Wang Hong didn’t bother to let this bastard do meritorious service and gave this opportunity back to his cronies. And my brother.
Since Wang Hong had already given the order, Wang Hu and Yang Feng naturally did not dare to delay. The two immediately fisted and shouted at Wang Hong before turning around to leave the big account to carry out the order that Wang Hong had entrusted to them.
But at this moment, another shout rang from outside the big tent, and saw a soldier of Wang Hongjun rushed to the outside of the big tent, bowed directly to Wang Hong, and shouted to Wang Hong: " Lord Wang Hong! Lord Wang Hong! The soldiers and horses in the Wangyingzhai have moved. Those who have left the camp and are rushing towards Hanyang Military City. The posture seems to be returning to Hanyang Military City."