Chapter 298: The Battle of Xiangcheng
The general who besieged Xiangcheng was named Wu Que. He was a count in Eastern Wu. He had a prominent position and was considered a well-known figure. However, he encountered the tough nail of Xiangcheng and would be difficult to conquer for a while.
That night, he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. The governor Wu Chu came to inspect, which scared him so much that he hurriedly stood up to greet him. When he saw Wu Chu's majestic appearance, he felt uncomfortable. Thinking of his arrogant arrogance in front of his subordinates, how could he not be angry when compared with the two?
"Wu Que, you and I are both from the Wu family. Emperor Wu asked you to break through Xiangcheng. But a month has passed, why is there no movement? A small Xiangcheng stumped you. What else can you do? Tell me?"
Wu Chu looked like a scholar, but he was full of gunpowder when speaking. He often followed Emperor Wu to do things, and his words and deeds were all imitated by Emperor Wu. If he should put on airs, he had to put on airs, otherwise the people below would not be convinced.
Wu Que wiped his cold sweat and said respectfully: "It's not that his subordinates are incompetent, but that the enemy is too cunning. Every time they fight, they always use the advantages of mountains, rivers and geography to wipe out small groups of our army one by one. If they chase him, they will consume their troops little by little. If they don't chase him, the battle will not be carried out. Besides, there are many experts in Xiangcheng, gathering the elites of a country. Therefore, his subordinates are unable to defeat him for a long time."
As if he was cold-shuang on his face, Wu Chu snorted coldly and said, "Don't think I don't know. The Lord of Xiangcheng is just a baby. What kind of ability can he have? With his little tricks, you can't do anything to him? People always think of it. If you can't beat him head-on, you can send someone to assassinate him."
Wu Que was timid and praised repeatedly, not daring to resist at all. He took a while and said in a pleading tone: "I heard that the seventy-two disciples under Mr. Wu each had unique skills. Why not assign one or two to help me defeat the enemy? Anyway, they were idle in Dongwu."
At this moment, the sentry suddenly came to report: "Report to the general, Xiangcheng army went out of the city to invite war, and even insulted the general--"
"What?" Wu Qie burst into anger. But in front of nowhere, he had to restrain himself, "Governor, what do you think you should do?"
Wu Chu was not angry: "What else can I do? Could it be that he will continue to insult you? You and I are the same clan, and he scolds you is scolding me!"
Wu Que and Wu Chu immediately took the troops on demand, took the soldiers and rushed to the front line.
Xiangcheng has many mountains and valleys, with scattered rivers and dense forests, which can be regarded as a natural barrier. Fan Tian is proficient in the art of Xiangdi, and always uses the advantages of the terrain to make Wu Jun move around.
"It's not a solution if this continues. The Eastern Wu army has 100,000 people, even if one person spits a mouthful of spit, Xiangcheng may not be able to withstand it. We should think of other solutions."
When the other three cities rescued the siege, Hong Meng led his brothers to Xiangcheng. It happened that the ** team of the Wan surname was fighting with the Eastern Wu army. He looked at the generals in the enemy camp and felt that one of them was quite familiar.
His eyes suddenly lit up. Wasn't that Wu Chu who kidnapped Master Gongsun? Why did he come here? Wu Chu must have been provoking trouble and commanding the war.
"I'll find a way to invite Wu Chu out alone, I have something to say to him." He turned around and said to Fan Tian. He believed that Fan Tian had this ability.
Fantian nodded and randomly handed over five command flags to his generals. The command flags were five types: blue, red, white, black, and yellow. The weapons used by the generals were knives, guns, swords, and halberds, and the arrangement was orderly and without any confusion.
"As long as I have given you today, you should pay special attention that the formations are changing every day, so you must not imitate yesterday's actions. If you go to the wrong position, it may be that the entire plan will be completely disrupted. Therefore, act according to the order." Fantian patiently explained to the five generals under his command, for fear that they would make mistakes.
These five generals used to follow the White-faced Scholar, and they were all trusted followers. They were originally unwilling to accept Fantian as the city lord, but they only obediently and dared not disobey the order when Fantian's formation was a result of the Wu family's suffering.
Hong Meng, Fantian, Liang Zhou, Xiong Hao, Jia Qian and others stood on the top of a small mountain to see the overall situation. The soldiers of Xiangcheng returned between the mountains and led the Wu army into the canyon step by step.
The general Wu Que was afraid of an accident, so he sent troops tonight to bring 10,000 more troops. He thought that with the Grand Commander Wu Chu, they could successfully defeat the enemy, but who knew that he had fallen into Fantian's plan again.
"Grandmaster, we are trapped in a maze. This cycle will not only cause losses to the generals, but also cause trouble. Just now, the officers came to report that our army had already lost 1,000 people in the battle." Wu Qie said helplessly.
"What?" Wu Chu seemed quite anxious. "A thousand people were killed in just a short while? No, quickly break the formation and kill the enemy. I don't believe that I can't defeat them. Where is the enemy? Kill them quickly."
When they met on a narrow road, the two armies met, and the soldiers from both sides rushed for a while. Wu Chu suddenly took out a golden dagger from his arms, then threw it out in the air, and instantly stabbed into the general in charge of the yellow flag.
"Crash, you will be rewarded by catching the enemy general--" Wu Chu shouted.
Wu Chu took the lead, not chasing others, but simply chasing the injured General Xiangcheng. He rode his horse and chased him all the way to a canyon. The general with a yellow flag on his back crawled into the woods, disappearing without a trace.
He rode his horse alone and cursed angrily: "What the hell is this? Where is my army? Why don't they follow me?"
Hong Meng and others looked at Wu Chu walking alone on the mainland and couldn't help but smile and said, "Grandmaster Wu Chu is fine, are you doing well these few days?"
Wu Chu quickly tied the reins and looked around, but found nothing. There was only endless deep forest around him. Who was talking? He hesitated and said, "Who are you? Why are you trapping me here?"
Hong Meng said seriously: "Wu Chu, do you still remember me? I am Hong Meng! When you insisted on kidnapping your family master, I was still weak at that time and was not your opponent. Although I am still not your opponent now, at least I can do anything to you. Send my master back quickly, otherwise you will not leave this place today."
When Wu Chu heard the word "Hong Meng", he immediately became furious: "You hold my purple bamboo forest in Dongwu, and you are so embarrassed to say! Your master is worthy of death. In order to seek credit, I have to bring the respected teacher back to Dongwu. I have buried him. I know you are sad and hope he is not dead, but his soul has really returned to the west. If you don't believe it, you can put me back first, and I will order someone to send the respected teacher back. What do you think?"
Who knows that Wu Chu is so cunning, even if it’s okay, this group of brothers are all young people who are just starting out. They can also hear the cunning in Wu Chu’s words. Therefore, no one takes this to heart.
Hong Meng thought about it, and now Wu Chu repeatedly argued that if he interrogated him again, he would not tell the truth. It would be better to threaten him with withdrawal.
"You have thought that if you don't retreat, even if we can't kill you, you will be seriously injured and unable to get out of bed. Your army is outside, why not communicate with them?" Hong Meng said to the Eastern Wu army that gave up breaking through.
Hearing this, Wu Chu suddenly laughed: "This is reasonable. Wu Qie can't break the formation quickly and save me?"
After the words came, Wu Qie seemed to have touched the formation path and directed his soldiers to respect the area where Wu Chu was. They broke the stone at the entrance of the valley, and the surrounding environment changed drastically. The originally dense deep forest is now just a piece of withered and yellow weeds.
On the second day, Wu Chu and Wu Que led a 100,000 army to launch a general attack. They had an orderly formation and strict military discipline. They had ladders and ladders and stones that were thrown. It seemed that everyone had experienced many years of experience on the battlefield.
Faced with so many enemies, Fan Tian was at a loss. Liang Zhou played with the golden pill in his hand, Xiong Hao was wiping the blood plate of creation, and Wei Yu sighed. Jia Qian took out three copper plates and ran to the table to make a fortune.
"Hey, it turns out that Jia Qian can do divination, how could you, a businessman, have this skill?" Yu Wen said strangely.
"No one, I just learned from Fan Tian and laughed." Jia Qian said with a smile.
"I don't know if it's good or bad?" Yu Wen asked.
Jia Qian shook his head and did not say the result.
"If you use an underground cave, you can kill 5,000 soldiers and horses, but how should you deal with the remaining more than 90,000 soldiers and horses?" Fan Tian looked worried.
Everyone was silent for a while, five thousand compared to one hundred thousand, just scratching it.
Hong Meng thought that since there was a cave underground, would Fantian’s master, the White-Faced Scholar, not know? Since the White-Faced Scholar, he might leave something to help retreat the enemy. He told Fantian this statement.
Fantian immediately entered the library and searched in the library for an hour before finding a note. Looking at the handsome and ancient fonts on the note, they recognized it, it should be the handwriting of the white-faced scholar.
Everyone came to the north gate, surrounded Fantian and protected him. Fantian sat cross-legged on the ground, with his hands drawn out an unknown trajectory, and he muttered the words: "Eight gates in all directions, four directions and four towns, open!"
But with a rumbling sound, the earth was shaking, and a large pit about a hundred feet in size suddenly collapsed ten miles ahead of the north gate. As soon as the big pit appeared, the flood suddenly gushed from the ground, and the sound of the water was deafening.
The flood did not spread on the ground, but rose directly into the sky, forming an extremely spectacular water column. The water column approached the sun in the air. Under the dazzling eyes, hundreds of rainbows flew into the sky, which was spectacular.
Suddenly, the wind and clouds suddenly rose in the eight directions of Xiangcheng. In the south, there were flames and waves of fire rolling, rushing towards the shocked army of Eastern Wu. In the east, the clouds were covered with lightning and lightning, and many soldiers died on the spot. In the west, the swamp suddenly appeared, and the army could not walk, and struggled and buried in the mud. In the north, the flood flooded and the three armies flooded.
"Retreat quickly!"
Chapter completed!