Zhang Huaxuan nodded and replied directly: "Please don't worry about this, the boy must ensure the safety of the wife and the little boy."
With Zhang Huaxuan’s assurance, Xia Ting’s face finally showed a relieved expression, nodded lightly, and stopped speaking. Then, Xia Ting’s face suddenly changed and became abnormally pale. A look of pain passed through Xia Ting's eyes.
Zhang Huaxuan and Zhang Sailiang had guessed the ending a long time ago. They didn't say much, they just watched Xia Ting's mouth slowly seeping out a blood stain, and Xia Ting himself fell on his back with a smile like this.
Seeing Xia Ting's death on the spot, both Zhang Huaxuan and Zhang Sailiang couldn't help feeling sigh. The two looked at each other and shook their heads, seeming to feel that they were not worthy of Xia Ting's end. But at this moment, only a cough was heard from the yard. Xia Wu and Xia Wen walked out of the yard slowly, holding their heads wrapped in silk scarves, Xia Cheng with a sick look on his head. .
At this time, Xia Cheng completely lost the dignity of the previous generation of heroes. At first glance, it looks no different from an ordinary middle-aged man.
Seeing Xia Cheng coming out, Zhang Huaxuan, Zhang Sailiang, and the other soldiers outside all bowed to Xia Cheng and shouted in unison: "Subordinates, see your lord."
Xia Cheng slowly raised his hand, waved tremblingly, motioned everyone to get up, and glanced at Xia Ting's corpse not far in front of him. On the surface, Xia Cheng's expression didn't seem to have changed, but Zhang Huaxuan keenly noticed that Xia Cheng's eyelids twitched, and a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes. Although Xia stood up and conspired, he was Xia Cheng's biological son after all. Seeing Xia Ting's life lost here, how could Xia Cheng remain indifferent in his heart
But after all, a generation of heroes is different from ordinary people. Although he is now seriously ill, he still quickly recovered his indifference, and said lightly: "Is he dead?"
Hearing Xia Cheng's question, Zhang Huaxuan immediately took a few steps forward, walked over to Xia Ting's body, checked it carefully, and finally said to Xia Cheng, "Return to your lord. The eldest son has no breath. Indeed. It's dead."
"Oh." Xia Cheng simply responded, and then patted Xia Ting's arm next to him, then turned around and walked into the yard. As he walked, he threw a word: "Thick burial."
Changting, Luting Prefecture, Fujian Province, is located in the center of the city. A gorgeously decorated mansion is the temporary residence of Gaoan, the lord of Fujian Road, and the temporary residence of Fujian Road.
In the Fujian Lujinglue Mansion, in the luxuriously decorated conference palace, Gao An has a sad face and sighs from time to time. It looked like it was very distressed. And in the discussion palace, there is also the important minister Gao An relies on most, this is Tong Wenbo, the wise man.
"Oh! Regret not at the beginning." Gao An sighed again, patted his thigh with some annoyance, and said to Tong Wenbo: "Marshal! If you listened to you back then, send more people to Nanxiong Prefecture to inquire about your disappearance. We won't be fooled by the Song army this time. Now Liu Yi is dead, and our west has no barriers. If the Song army attacked, what should we do!"
Hearing Gao An's words, Tong Wenbo just smiled helplessly. Gao An originally wanted to listen to his opinions and sent spies to Nanxiong Prefecture to contact Liu Yiduo. But at that time, Xia Cheng's youngest son, Xia Hu, was killed by Liu's army general Wang Ziping, which completely broke the originally weak friendship between the two sides, and Tong Wenbo's advice was also infinitely delayed. This also led to Liu Jiajun being attacked by the Song army this time, and Gao An didn't know it more than ten days later. When Gao An knew about the matter, he immediately began to deploy soldiers and horses to prepare for assistance, but shortly afterwards, news of Liu Yibing's defeat came, and Gao An had to give up.
Now Wang Zongshi's army and the main force of Wang Hu's army are stationed in Nanxiong Prefecture. They look forward to the east, and look like they are ready to move east. They are scared that Gao An can't eat well these days and sleep well. He's afraid that the Song army will come over. It's no wonder that although Gao An now holds Fujian Road, he can be regarded as the overlord of one party. But compared to Song Jun, it was still far behind. No one of the princes in the world can compare with the Song army that defeated the invincible golden soldiers all over the world. No matter how confident Gao An is, there is no exception. Some time ago, Gao An deliberately transferred two of his friends, Xia Cheng and Wang Xiong, who are also the only two powerful generals under Gao An’s, from the border between the north and the south to the west, ready to meet the attack of the Song army, but even so, Gao An is still uneasy.
Tong Wenbo smiled bitterly, and said, "Don't worry, your lord, now the Song Army has only captured Nanxiong Prefecture by surprise attack. If it fails to break through Xia Jiajun, the Song Army will definitely not dare to take the initiative to go to war with our army."
"Oh! I know this too, but didn't I get the news before, did Xia Jiajun also have a major incident?" Gao An's expression did not improve halfway because of Tong Wenbo's persuasion, but said with a gloomy face: "Xia Jiajun and two After the defeat in the second battle, there was a rebellion inside. As a result, wouldn't the strength of the Xia family's army be greatly reduced, how can it be able to withstand the Song army's army? The Xia family's army was destroyed, and then it is our turn."
What Gao An said was the news that just came from Xia's army yesterday. The army of Xia's army was defeated from south to north. Xia Cheng's son Xia Ting launched a rebellion again, although Xia Cheng finally put down the rebellion. , But still had a great influence on Xia's strength. To be honest, after hearing the news, Tong Wenbo was also shocked. He immediately thought of his good friend Zhang Huaxuan. He never expected that Xia Jiajun had Zhang Huaxuan sitting in town, how could such a thing happen. What Gao An worries about is actually what Tong Wenbo worries about.
It's just that Tong Wenbo wouldn't speak out his worries, and that would only make Gao An even more worried. As a minister, naturally you have to share worries for adults, but how can you increase people's worries? Tong Wenbo hurriedly advised: "Adults, don't worry. Although Xia Jiajun has been hit repeatedly, Xia Cheng is in charge of the army of the three states, and his strength is not small. Even if Song Jun wants to eliminate Xia Jiajun, it will not be possible in a short time. . And, I heard that Xia Cheng has sent an emissary to come here, I believe it will not be long before he will come to Lutingzhou, Fujian to meet the adults. When our two join forces, no matter how strong the Song Army is, we will have the ability. resistance."
Tong Wenbo's analysis makes sense, but it cannot reduce Gao An's worries. Gao An would be so worried, not because Gao An was timid, Tong Wenbo's analysis was too rational, but he forgot to consider the mood of Song Emperor Zhao Zhen, the leader of the Song Army. Song Emperor Zhao Zhen is also a party overlord after all, and Song Emperor Zhao Zhen is no longer young. Comparing heart to heart, if Gao An is changed to Song Emperor Zhao Zhen's position, I'm afraid I will never miss this opportunity, and will surely unite the world in one breath. After all, no one wants to bring regrets into the coffin.
After listening to Tong Wenbo's words, Gao An opened his mouth and was about to say something, and suddenly a voice came from outside, but a civil servant quickly walked into the discussion palace. It was Gao An's important minister Zhang Cang. Zhang Cang paid a salute to Gao An, and then to Tong Wenbo again, and then said: "Master Qi. I just received information. The envoys sent by Xia Jiajun have already entered the city." Zhang Cang followed. Gao An has many years of experience and is older than Tong Wenbo, and he is loyal to Gao An, so Gao An is also the general manager of intelligence.
"Oh?" Gao An and Tong Wenbo's eyes lit up. Now the alliance with Xia Jiajun is the only way out. They are looking forward to it every day. Immediately Gao An said to Zhang Cang: "Quick! Order someone to greet him immediately, and directly meet the secret envoy into the mansion."
Obtaining Gao An's order, Zhang Cang immediately took the order, and Gao An also had a look of excitement on his face, and he couldn't wait to go out immediately to meet the messenger himself. However, when Gao An saw Tong Wenbo's calm appearance, he immediately realized that he was in a state of failure, and his old face blushed, took a few deep breaths, suppressed his excitement, and gradually calmed down.
At this time, Tong Wenbo smiled faintly and said to Gao An: "My lord, although it is imperative to form an alliance with Xia Jiajun this time, don't look too happy when you see Xia Jiajun's messenger later, lest you let Xia Jiajun know. We were eager to form an alliance, but we fell behind."
Gao An also nodded repeatedly and said, "Well! I know about this too, the handsome man doesn't need to worry. By the way, my clothes are used to greet the messenger, it is always bad. I will go down and change my clothes, and then come to welcome Xia Jiajun. Messenger." After speaking, Gao An stood up directly.
Seeing Gao An got up, Tong Wenbo hurriedly stood up to send him off. Gao An is now wearing only a set of ordinary casual clothes, which is indeed not suitable for welcoming the messenger. However, Tong Wenbo is now wearing a formal official uniform, which is just right to greet the messenger, but it avoids the trouble of changing clothes.
After Gao An left, Tong Wenbo also lowered his head, and began to slowly think about how to deal with the Xia Family's envoy this time. This time Xia Jiajun sent an envoy to discuss alliance matters with Gao An. Compared to Gao An's concerns, Xia Cheng might be the real eyebrows burning. To the northeast, there is an army led by Zhao Yun eagerly watching, and to the northwest, there is Huang Yunfei's heavy-armored infantry to cooperate with Shao Yun, Shao Long and other northern warriors, ready to go south to Xinzhou at any time. In contrast, Xia's situation is obviously much more critical. What Tong Wenbo considered was whether he could rely on this alliance to earn more benefits for Gao An.
Not long after, Gao An also changed his official uniform and came to the discussion palace, and waited in the hall with Tong Wenbo until this warehouse brought the Xia Family's envoy. About half an hour later, I heard a sound of footsteps from outside the discussion palace, and the next moment I saw Zhang Cang's somewhat thin body appearing at the entrance of the discussion palace.
I saw Zhang Cang standing at the gate of the discussion palace, bowing to Gao An, and said loudly: "My lord! The Jiangnan East Road Economic Envoy sent an envoy to come and said that there are important things to discuss with the adults."
In fact, since the day the messenger left Shangrao, Gao An and Tong Wenbo had clearly known each other's itinerary. But in front of others, this superficial effort still needs to be done. Gao An nodded, waved his hand and said: "Since it is an envoy sent by the Jiangnan East Road Economic Envoy, please have it soon."
"Yes." Zhang Cang replied, then backed up a few steps, then bowed to the people behind him, made a gesture of please, and said: "My envoy, please please in there."
The Xia Family's envoy also agreed, and he hurried forward, and when he saw the appearance of the Xia Family's envoy, Gao An just felt familiar, while Tong Wenbo was completely taken aback, with an expression of disbelief. Tong Wenbo never expected that this person would be the one who represented Xia Jiajun on Fujian Road this time.
And Gao An's memory is not bad. Although he didn't recognize the other person at first, he waited until Gao An's appearance was filtered in his mind. He immediately remembered the identity of this person, and was also taken aback, pointing at the person, and even forgot to say something.
Seeing the expressions of Gao An and Tong Wenbo, the envoy of the Xia Family Army had a look that he had known for a long time, smiled faintly, and then bowed his hand to Gao An, stood up straight, and laughed loudly: "Boy Hu Zhuge, see you A brief visit to Fujian Road."
Yiyang City is the most important city to the west of Shangrao and the most closely guarded city of Xia's army. At this time, a small number of the pioneers of the Song Army who had attacked were already not far away from the city.
Soon it was time, not far from the west city gate, a small team of more than 100 people was sticking to the city wall, quietly lurking. The two generals who took the lead were Yang Mingli and Yang Wenshan among the children of the Xia family. Yang Mingli was squatting on the ground at the moment, his eyes fixed on the direction outside the city, and he did not dare to relax for a moment. He has maintained this movement for an hour or two, but he himself hasn't moved for a while, and his whole body is like cast iron. general.
But Yang Wenshan, who was next to Yang Mingli, was not so good, and he was a little overwhelmed after insisting on it for more than an hour. But this Yang Wenshan was also a hero, no matter how tired, he finally clenched his teeth and persevered. Looking up at the night sky, estimating the time, Yang Wenshan turned his head and whispered to Yang Mingli: "Brother! It's already a time now, do you think the enemy will come?"
"No hurry." Yang Mingli simply put two words, but he blocked all the words behind Yang Wenshan. Seeing that Yang Mingli had said so, Yang Wenshan could only shut up and continued guarding.
Fortunately, not long after, there was a sudden sound of horseshoes not far from outside the city. Although the sound of horseshoes was not very loud, Yang Mingli and Yang Wenshan were both children of Jiangmen, and they were most sensitive to the sound of horseshoes. They immediately changed their faces and looked at each other.
However, in order to be well concealed, they did not light the torch. Now the night is still invisible, so the brothers can only see the light in each other's eyes. But even so, they could see a hint of joy in each other's eyes.
It didn't take long for me to see that not far outside the city, there was another team, which looked roughly like one or two thousand people. It's not wrong to want to come, the other party is here now to sneak attack. If it came with a big fanfare, wouldn't it be possible for the enemy to see through it immediately. These two thousand people are just right, and all they have to do is to open the gates of the city.
However, Yang Mingli and Yang Wenshan didn't think about the number of the enemy. They all fixed their eyes on the front of the army. Yang Mingli watched carefully. Under the light of a very subtle torch, the one leading the soldiers in front of the Song army that came to sneak attack was their target this time, Song Army General Liu Zhengjiang.
Seeing that it was Liu Zhengjiang who came in person, it was Yang Mingli's composure that he almost didn't hold back yelling at this moment. I finally resisted the excitement in my heart, gestured to the soldier who had been prepared long ago, recruited him to his side, and shouted to him in a low voice: "Report to the city immediately. The target has been confirmed. The net can be closed. "
When the soldiers reported back, General Liu Zheng, who was not far in front, had just arrived at the gate of the city. I saw dozens of soldiers of the Song Army threw the flying hooks directly on Liu Zhengjiang's order. It seemed that they were going to use these flying hooks to fix the city head and climb the city head. The brothers Yang Mingli and Yang Wenshan couldn't help but sucked in air when they saw it. If they didn't see through Song Jun's strategy, they would most likely be succeeded by the other party.
Soon, those flying hooks were fixed on the top of the city, and Liu Zhengjiang, who was standing at the gate of the city, was about to command the soldiers of the Song Army to climb on the top of the city. But at this moment, the closed city gate suddenly creaked, and countless Xia Jiajun soldiers holding their weapons rushed out of the city in an instant. It could be seen that Yang Mingli and Yang Wenshan both involuntarily shook their fists. The army of the people started.
"Brother." Yang Wenshan saw the outburst of the Xia Family Army and the Song Army smashed into a fight, and his blood boiled immediately, and immediately said to Yang Mingli: "Let's go now too."
"Wait." Yang Mingli was not in a hurry, waved his hand to Yang Wenshan, and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry. Our number is too small. At this time, we will only rush to death. We can't get any. Role. When Liu Zheng will put all his troops into the battle, we will charge again. Only in this way can we play the role of a surprise soldier."
What Yang Mingli said was correct. At this time, Liu Zhengjiang was directing the Song Army generals to fight against the Xia Family Army generals who emerged from the city. There were still thousands of people guarding him. Yang Mingli only brought more than a hundred people with him, so rushing at this time might not be of any help.
But it didn't take long, because the number of the Song army was too small, there were only more than 2,000, and the city had already sent out all the defenders of the city, that was more than 20,000. Liu Zheng will never be able to hold this point, and sooner or later he will retreat. When the time comes, it's time for Yang Mingli, the strange soldier to play a role. Yang Mingli's eyes had never left the body of Liu Zhengjiang who was riding a war horse. Tonight, Liu Zhengjiang must be taken down in this battle. Sure enough, Yang Mingli did not expect it. At the beginning, Liu Zhengjiang commanded the army to block the gate of the city, and he just blocked the Xia's army. But soon, as the brothers Yang Kao and Yang Xiao, the generals of the Xia Family Army in the city, went into battle, the fragile line of defense was immediately breached. In a blink of an eye, the Song Army lost a lot of soldiers and horses. Seeing that the city could not be taken down by night attack, Liu Zhengjiang in the back hurriedly turned around and retreated behind with the remaining Song Army.
At this moment, Yang Mingli's eyes lit up, he immediately raised his spear, and shouted at Yang Wenshan beside him and more than a hundred soldiers behind him: "It's time, go!"
"Kill!" "Capture Liu Zhengjiang alive!"
There was a loud shout. Although the number of the more than one hundred soldiers led by Yang Mingli was small, they were like poisonous snakes. They hit the key with one blow, just blocking the retreat of General Liu Zheng's army. The soldiers, headed by Yang Mingli and Yang Wenshan, aimed directly at Liu Zhengjiang. Obviously, they wanted to capture Liu Zhengjiang alive and finish his work in the first battle.
Facing the sudden appearance of the enemy, Liu Zhengjiang pulled on the reins and stopped his mount. He looked at Yang Mingli, who was getting closer and closer, with a gloomy expression on his face. He clenched his saber in his hands, but he was not at all flustered. As a veteran who has experienced many battles, Liu Zhengjiang has gone through the thrills he has experienced before, and naturally he will not panic about it.