Summoning the world to be one

Chapter 670
Chapter 671: Tranquilizing Neihuang
In the tenth year of Tiantong, on the tenth day of June, in Fanyang City, Li Rubing and Le Ting stood on the top of the city, overlooking the direction of Neihuang. As early as more than ten years ago, Li Rubing received Zhao Kuo's request for help, but Li Rubing has never heard of it. He was able to get rid of Murong Ke's entanglement, so much so that he still stays in Fanyang.

Li Rubing said to Le Ting on the side: "Le Ting, send down the order to integrate the troops. Tonight we will evacuate Fanyang and go north to Wei County."

"General, why is this?" Le Ting was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and asked very puzzled. Now Fanyang City is impregnable. Half a step closer to Fanyang City, why retreat?
Li Rubing said: "It is estimated that Neihuang has already fallen. If we continue to stay in Fanyang, we may be surrounded by Deng Jun."

"Neihuang has already fallen?" Le Ting was a little surprised, and said: "General, it's not enough. Although the soldiers and horses in Zhao Kuo's hands are no match for Deng Jun in the wild, if Zhao Kuo defends the city, even if Deng Jun storms, No matter how you can keep it for three to five months."

Li Rubing sighed, and said, "Oh, normally this is the case, but have you ever thought that Zhao Kuo is so arrogant, why would he suddenly ask for help from the general? There is only one answer, and that is Nei Huang. There is a shortage of food, and it won't last long, otherwise, with Zhao Kuo's character, he would not easily ask the general for help."

Hearing this, Le Ting suddenly realized, isn't it? For so many years, Zhao Kuo has always wanted to prove that he is stronger than Li Rubing. Asking Li Rubing for help means that he has bowed his head to Li Rubing, so Zhao Kuo will not ask for help easily unless it is absolutely necessary, and now Zhao Kuo's letter of asking for help has been sent more than ten days ago, which shows that Zhao Kuo really can't hold on any longer Living.

"General, if Zhao Kuo really can't hold on, what will he do?" Le Ting asked.

Li Rubing thought for a while, and said: "Either stick to Neihuang, fight to the end with Deng Jun, and break the net, or lead the army to break through and retreat to Yecheng, but based on what I know about Zhao Kuo, he will never be that kind Waiting for someone to die, so Zhao Kuo will definitely choose to break out, but Xue Rengui's 10,000+ army surrounded Neihuang, so Zhao Kuo can leave as he says? Even if Zhao Kuo can break out as he wishes, seven of his men will I am afraid that there will be very few soldiers left, so this general will let you integrate the troops and evacuate Fanyang, because we are the last hope of Da Zhao in Hebei."

"General, the general understands, the general will make arrangements!" After saying that, Le Ting hurriedly went to rectify the troops.

After Le Ting left, Li Rubing looked in the direction of Wei County and murmured: "I hope there is still time!"

At the same time, there is already a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood outside the Inner Yellow City. Last night, Zhao Kuo led an army to break through. Deng Jun surrounded Zhao Jun layer by layer. After a night of bloody battle, Zhao Jun still failed to break through. Deng Jun's blockade, when Zhao Jun beat Deng Jun to the point of collapse several times, Deng Jun's reinforcements quickly made up for it. Every time Zhao Jun saw hope, he was disappointed again, but now it is already Desperate.

After a night of bloody battles at all costs, the losses of both sides were huge. Of the 3 Zhao army, there were less than 7 left, and it was not easy for the Deng army. More than half of the Spirit Snake Guard was lost, and the Longxiang Guard was also lost. Losing one-fifth of its strength, plus the losses of other guards, Deng Jun lost at least 10,000 people this night, which is similar to Zhao Jun's casualties, but Deng Jun has 4+ soldiers and horses. Without these more than 20 people, there are still [-] people.

The sky gradually turned white, and more and more Deng Jun came to surround him. Zhao Kuo knew that he had no hope of breaking through the siege, but now Neihuang City had also been occupied by Deng Jun. In desperation, Zhao Kuo had no choice but to lead his troops back to the Next to Huang Ze, making the last struggle.

"Tian Zhen, how many soldiers and horses do we have?" Zhao Kuo asked Tian Zhen. Not long after Zhao Kuo led his army back to Huangze, Deng Jun soon came up again. Zhao Jun had no time to set up camp, so he could only form an army formation.

Tian Zhen wiped the blood from his face, and said: "Taiwei, the general just did a simple count, and we still have less than [-] soldiers and horses."

"Less than 15!" Zhao Kuo said sadly after hearing the words: "I think back then, when the Taiwei led an army of 15 out of Jinyang, how high-spirited it was. I didn't expect that in less than a year, only 3 elites were left. Less than [-] people? Could it be that this Taiwei is really not a general?"

Seeing that Zhao Kuo had lost his confidence, Tian Zhen knew that Zhao Kuo was the general of the army. If Zhao Kuo lost his confidence, then they really had no hope, so he quickly comforted him: "Don't be discouraged, Taiwei, we still have to wait for you." With [-] troops, it might be impossible to break through, as long as we return to Yecheng, we can make a comeback!"

"A comeback?" Zhao Kuo heard the words, pointed at the soldiers behind him mockingly, and said, "Tian Zhen, look, how many people are left? Even 7 people can't break through the siege of Deng Jun. Can you still count on this? A tired army of [-]? Take [-] steps back, even if we can break through the siege, how many people will we have left? After returning to Yecheng, what will we do to make a comeback? There is no hope."

"Taiwei!" Tian Zhen looked at Zhao Kuo with tears in his eyes when he heard the words. He knew that what Zhao Kuo said was the truth. Now, Zhao Jun has no hope.

Zhao Kuo took a deep breath and said, "Tian Zhen, now our army has reached the end of the mountain, and this Taiwei will not surrender. This Taiwei is the current Taiwei of the Great Zhao Dynasty, the son of Zhao Xin, the God of the Great Zhao Army. The Taiwei has his own pride. This defeat has already insulted the prestige of his father. If this Taiwei doesn't even have the courage to fight to the end, then this Taiwei is not worthy to be Zhao Xin's son, but Tian Zhen, You are different from the soldiers, you all have parents, wives and children, this Taiwei will not ask, nor dare to extravagantly ask that you can accompany this Taiwei to die, if you can, you should surrender."

"Taiwei!" Tian Zhen knelt down on the ground with tears streaming down his face and said: "The last general is deeply favored by Da Zhao and the Taiwei, and he will never be a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death. If the Taiwei decides to fight to the end, then the general I will not drag out an ignoble existence, and I am willing to be with the Taiwei!"

"Wish to be with the Taiwei!" After Tian Zhen said, all the generals behind him knelt down and said.

"Okay!" Seeing this, Zhao Kuo helped Tian Zhen up, and said to everyone: "You are all good men of my Da Zhao, and it is my Zhao Kuo who is incompetent. pleasure!"

Zhao Kuo took a step forward, looked at the Deng Jun army formation not far away, and said: "Today, the Taiwei and the lords are here to fight Deng Jun to the death. The horse leather shrouds the body to be the man's ambition. Tian Zhen, pass down the order and the whole army rests. One hour, if there are people who don't want to die during this period, let them leave, after one hour, we will launch an attack on Deng Jun, even if we die, it will not make Deng Jun feel better!"

"Here!" Tian Zhen replied.

After Tian Zhen and others left, Zhao Kuo sat cross-legged. He was also very tired from the fierce battle all night. In the next battle, although Zhao Kuo was the main general, Zhao Kuo was needed for such a back-to-back battle. The main general charged forward, otherwise the soldiers behind would not have the courage, so Zhao Kuo had to recover his strength as soon as possible, not for anything else, but to kill a few more Deng soldiers in the battle to make money.

An hour later, Tian Zhen returned to Zhao Kuo's side again. Zhao Kuo glanced at Tian Zhen and asked, "Tian Zhen, how many soldiers are willing to stay?"

Tian Zhen replied: "Back to Taiwei, after the general passed on the military order of the Taiwei, thousands of people chose to leave, and the general placed them beside Huang Ze and asked them to put down their weapons. After the war ended, they You can surrender to Deng Jun, and now we still have 2 people."

"2 people are enough. With these 2 people accompanying me, Zhao Kuo, to walk along this road to the underworld, this life is enough!" Zhao Kuo nodded with a smile, and said, Zhao Kuo did not expect that at this juncture, There are 2 people who are willing to stand with him, what more can we ask for?
"Taiwei, the soldiers are all ready now, just wait for the Taiwei to give an order, and we can launch an attack on Deng Jun!" Tian Zhen said.

"Okay, let's pass on the order. After a quarter of an hour, the whole army will attack. Generals at all levels will charge forward and tell the soldiers that they still have a quarter of an hour. If there are still people who want to surrender, they should stand up. Those who are greedy for life and afraid of death, those who are afraid of the enemy, will not be pardoned!" said Zhao Kuo.

"Here!" Tian Zhen replied.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Jun set up a charge formation. Deng Jun on the other side saw this. Wang Yanzhang, who was in charge of guarding Zhao Jun, asked Deng Qiang on the side: "King Guiyang, you see that Zhao Jun's formation has changed. This is a charge formation." , Could it be that Zhao Kuo still launched an attack on our army?"

Deng Qiang looked at it, and said: "It really is a charge formation, Zhao Kuo still wants to make the last struggle, pass on the order, the whole army prepares for battle, and in addition, send someone to summon the general, so that the general can reinforce at any time!"

"Here!"

"Kill!" As soon as Deng Qiang's words fell, Zhao Kuo took the lead and led the army to rush forward. Seeing this, Deng Qiang ordered with a blank face: "Order the sword and shield soldiers to stand at the front, and don't let the Zhao army go any further." Take a step forward, as long as you withstand Zhao Jun's offensive this time, then the end of Zhao Jun will come!"

"Here!"

Soon, all the swords and shields of the Spirit Snake Guard and Jinwu Guard were at the forefront. After a while, Zhao Jun came to the front. Facing Deng Jun's resistance, Zhao Kuo personally beheaded a Deng Bing , Shouted loudly: "Soldiers obey orders, rush to Taiwei Ben, rush to Deng Jun's defense line!"

"Kill!" The two sides quickly fought into a group. Although Zhao Jun was at a disadvantage in numbers, he fought back and forth with the Jinwu Guard and the Spirit Snake Guard with his fearless aura. It was very anxious.

After Xue Rengui sent Ying Yangwei and Huyiwei to come up, Deng Jun finally suppressed Zhao Jun, and after another half day of fighting, Deng Jun finally surrounded Zhao Kuo, and at this time Zhao Kuo was surrounded by only a few To 100 people, and all of them were injured, Zhao Kuo's 2 horses were completely wiped out.

At this time, Xue Rengui, who had been in the rear all the time, came late, walked in front of the army, looked at the remnants of the Zhao army in front of him, and said to Zhao Kuo: "Zhao Kuo, you are worthy of being the son of Zhao Xin. Without disgrace to Xin Zhao's reputation, the fall of Zhao is imminent, you are a rare general, I am eager to seek talents, if you are willing to give up your arms and surrender, I will keep you safe!"

At this time, Zhao Kuo was covered in blood, and his armor was already in tatters. Zhao Kuo looked at Xue Rengui who was sitting on the horse, and said, "Thank you, General Xue, for your love, but I, Zhao Kuo, have been greatly favored by Emperor Zhao. Although I, Zhao Kuo, have neither the talent nor the prestige of my late father, I am not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death. Today, I was defeated by General Xue. Zhao Kuo has nothing else to ask but I beg for death, and I hope that General Xue will make it happen, don't waste your time talking, it will only increase the number of jokes!"

Xue Rengui sighed, did not speak, just waved lightly, and then countless Deng Jun rushed towards Zhao Jun. After a quarter of an hour, everything calmed down. Zhao Kuo, Tian Zhen and other Zhao Jun generals fought hard and died. None of Zhao's soldiers survived.

Deng Qiang walked to Xue Rengui's side and said, "General, there are thousands of Zhao troops over there, and they have all put down their weapons. General Wang Yanzhang will lead the Spirit Snake Guards to take care of them."

Xue Rengui nodded, and said: "Let Wang Yanzhang take these Zhao soldiers back to Neihuang, so that they can be guarded. Qin Lie obeys orders!"

"The last general is here!" Qin Lie took a step forward and responded.

"Now that Neihuang has fallen and Zhao Kuo is dead, Li Rubing in Fanyang will not sit still. I will order you to lead the Longxiang Guards to rush to Wei County to support General Luo Cheng, and stop Li Rubing at all costs. We can't let him return to Yecheng and wait for reinforcements from the general's main force!" Xue Rengui said.

Now that Neihuang City has been captured, Zhao Kuo and his [-] troops have been wiped out, and there is only one Li Rubing left. As long as Li Rubing is defeated, there will be no one in Hebei who can stop Deng Jun. So Xue Rengui would never let Li Rubing return to Yecheng alive.

"Here!" Qin Lie responded, and led Long Xiangwei to set off.

After Qin Lie left, Xue Rengui said to Deng Qiang: "Li Rubing is entangled with Murong Cheqi and Luo Cheng, and he will not be able to get rid of it for a while, but Qin Lie's Long Xiangwei can rush to Wei County within a day. Our army has been fighting hard for a long time, and the soldiers are very tired, so we temporarily rest in Neihuang for the whole night, and then we will move out tomorrow."

"Here!" Deng Qiang replied.

At the same time, Li Rubing, who had withdrawn from Fanyang, was fighting with Murong Ke's army. Murong Ke knew that it would be difficult to defeat Li Rubing's army with his own soldiers and horses, so he simply did not confront Li Rubing head-on. Constantly harassing and delaying Li Rubing's marching speed, and Murong Ke also believed that Xue Rengui must have sent someone to Wei County, so Murong Ke was not in a hurry.

"General, this Murong Ke is really too cunning. He doesn't fight with our army, but keeps harassing our army, which greatly delays the speed of our army. At this speed, we will definitely not be able to arrive within two or three days." From Wei County." Le Ting said to Li Rubing.

Li Rubing smiled wryly and said: "Murong Ke must know that with his strength, it is difficult to defeat our army, so we use harassment tactics to delay our army's speed, but we have nothing to do with him, unless we ignore Murong Ke , marching at full strength, but in this way, Murong Ke will definitely pursue from behind. In the end, even if we can return to Yecheng, how many of our 12 soldiers and horses will be left? These soldiers and horses are from Da Zhao in Hebei The last hope must not be lost."

Li Rubing knew very well that the most important thing now was to keep the soldiers and horses in his hands, otherwise even if he returned to Yecheng without soldiers and horses, it would be a dead end.

"The scouts sent to Wei County haven't come back yet?" Li Rubing asked. When he left Fanyang, Li Rubing asked Leting to send a large number of scouts to Wei County to investigate the situation in Wei County. Li Rubing didn't believe that Xue Rengui would tell Wei County The county turned a blind eye.

Le Ting said: "It should be almost back."

As soon as he spoke, a fast horse came in front of Li Rubing, and the scout got off the horse and said, "Report to General, Deng's troops have already entered Wei County!"

"What? Wei County was occupied by Deng Jun!" Le Ting was shocked when he heard this. Although Wei County was not the only route back to Yecheng, Murong Ke who was on the side kept harassing Zhao Jun. Ke's posture is to drive Zhao Jun to Wei County. That is to say, if Zhao Jun wants to return to Yecheng, Wei County has become the only way to go. Now that Wei County is occupied by Deng Jun, Zhao Jun Isn't there no way out?

When Li Rubing heard this, his face was very gloomy, and he said to the scouts: "You go to Wei County right away, and you must find a way to find out how many troops Deng Jun has in Wei County."

"Here!" The scout responded, mounted his horse and headed towards Wei county again.

After the scouts left, Li Rubing said to Le Ting: "Le Ting, pass on the order, the whole army will speed up and march towards Wei County!"

"General, now that Wei County has been occupied by Deng Jun, should we still go to Wei County?" Le Ting asked in puzzlement, now that Wei County is occupied by Deng Jun, and the road ahead is cut off, why does Li Rubing still go to Wei County? ?

Li Rubing said: "After we left Fanyang, Deng Jun had already entered Fanyang. We had no way out. We had no choice but to go to Hei. Now Xue Rengui's main force is fighting fiercely with Zhao Kuo in Neihuang. Even if we send troops It won’t be too many to go to Wei County. When we arrive in Wei County, we can send troops to block Murong Ke while sending troops to attack Wei County. As long as we pass through Wei County before Xue Rengui defeats Zhao Kuo and reinforces Wei County, then our army can Back to Yecheng."

"Here!" Le Ting replied.

After walking for another day, Zhao Jun traveled less than a hundred miles away from Wei County, and finally saw hope. At this time, the scouts who went to Wei County to investigate finally returned.

"General, half a day ago, tens of thousands of Deng Jun cavalry entered Wei County!" said the scout.

Hearing this, Li Rubing's face turned ashen, while Le Ting beside him was panicked, because there was really no hope now, tens of thousands of people guarded Wei County, even if there was no Murong Ke to harass him, Zhao Jun wanted to take Wei County is not so easy.

Li Rubing sighed, and said: "Defeated, everything is over, Le Ting, pass on the order, the whole army will set up camp on the spot, this general is here, waiting for Xue Rengui to arrive."

"Here!" Le Ting replied, at this time, Le Ting no longer had any extravagant hopes in his heart, he could not go back to Yecheng, so he could only stay here and fight to the death with Deng Jun!

(End of this chapter)