the enlightener says

"Interesting." Xiang Chu couldn't help laughing after reading the letter, "It's really interesting."

Li Meiben was building a sand table at the side, and when he heard Xiang Chu's laughter, he raised his head slightly: "What makes the general so happy?"

These days, Xiang Chu has been wearing a half-smile expression on his face, but Li Mo can't smile at all. Although he knew that there were less than [-] soldiers in Jinzhou City early in the morning, but I don't know if he got the help of Mo Zhe. The siege was a disadvantage, and it is not difficult to see that Jinzhou City has a somewhat "conservative" style in terms of formation and deployment of troops. It seems that it is impossible to win it in one fell swoop as planned before.

And now he can see that Xiang Chu is not in a hurry to win Jinzhou.

He has some complaints about Xiang Chu's arrangement. After all, the Tang army has been in the Mohist school for a long time. The daily food and grass consumption of the 20 army is not a small number. So what if you can achieve results under the cover of the war?

If all the benefits go to Cang Hai, I'm afraid the imperial concubine will be furious in court.

"Look for yourself." Xiang Chu raised his hand and threw it out. The letter in his hand drew an arc-shaped trajectory in the military tent, and landed smoothly on the sand table in front of Li Mo.

And Li Mo was also born in the general family, with good cultivation, so it is impossible for him not to be able to catch a letter, but he did not expect Xiang Chu's attack to come so quickly, and the angle was so tricky, he didn't even react react to.

"Guo Kai, governor of Xingzhou County, left the city behind and brought [-] cavalry to support Jinzhou, and...was trapped in Pinggu by General Long?" Li Mo was slightly stunned at first, then his eyes lit up, thinking With his resourcefulness, he naturally knew what was behind this battle report.

Xingzhou is an important town of the Mohists. The terrain is dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack.And once Xingzhou is taken down, Xingzhou can be used as the basic fortress of the Tang army in the Mohist family, so as to control most of the territory to the west of the Mohist family.

However, Li Mei still has some doubts: "Is Guo Kai crazy? Letting go of Xingzhou and not guarding it, but going out of the city to rescue Jinzhou? Not to mention whether 2 people can save Jinzhou, and lose Xingzhou. Not even a single head."

"I don't know either." Xiang Chu's voice revealed a bit of sternness: "But I don't hate one or two such fools appearing from time to time."

After a pause, he continued: "Notify Longju, since Guo Kai has come out, he should treat him well...don't lose the etiquette on the battlefield."

Li Mo nodded. At this moment, his heart was surging. Right in front of his eyes, it seemed that a door was opening, and a dazzling brilliance slowly came out from the crack of the door.Since joining the army, he must want to build a career. This battle may be his best chance.

He clenched his fists involuntarily, looked at Xiang Chu and said, "General, what shall we do next? Will Jinzhou still fight?"

"What do you think?" Xiang Chu sat on the chair, slowly stroking the sword in his hand.

The edge of the sword was raised horizontally in his hand, and a ray of light from outside the tent followed its edge all the way up, and then he stretched out a finger and flicked the blade lightly.

The war sword trembled slowly and made a clanking sound.

"General." Li Mei's voice was firm, "The army should move out immediately, bypass Jinzhou, and attack Xingzhou. As long as Xingzhou is captured, our army will have a solid foundation in the Mohist territory. We have an army of 20. It is enough to control the three Mohist counties and cut off Jinzhou from the outside world, so why worry about Jinzhou not surrendering?"

Xiang Chu raised his hand, and slowly wiped the cloth on the sword on his hand, showing no impatience, but Li Mo was silent for a while seeing his attitude.

It is widely rumored that Xiang Chu is just a rough man with a big beard who only knows how to hold a knife and lift a sword to kill people, but he is very clear that Xiang Chu has his own strategy in his chest, and more importantly, he never cares about anyone's advice .

Perhaps he asked himself what he should do, but it was just a casual remark.

It's just that he didn't understand why Xiang Chu valued Jinzhou so much?Compared with Xingzhou, although Jinzhou is rich and prosperous, its location and city defense are far less meaningful than Xingzhou.

"I know you have complaints in your heart." Xiang Chu said suddenly: "In your opinion, because of the little obsession in my heart, I, the commander, only know how to use my emotions and ignore the overall situation, right?"

"The last general dare not." Li Mo lowered his head and said.

"I don't dare. But I can't?" Xiang Chu sneered, "Li Mo."

"Yes, General."

"In your opinion, Xingzhou or Jinzhou is more important?" Xiang Chu asked.

"The terrain of Xingzhou is dangerous, and it is also a traffic hub. Naturally, Xingzhou is important." Li Mei still insisted on his own ideas.

"Then which one is more important, Xingzhou or Mohism?" Xiang Chu asked again.

Li Mei was stunned suddenly, he didn't understand why Xiang Chu would ask such a question, isn't it just to occupy the vast mountains and rivers of the Mo family to seize Xingzhou?That being the case, why should the two be compared?

Xiang Chu put down the battle sword in his hand, without even looking at the scabbard, pressed it down suddenly, and the battle sword was directly inserted into the scabbard, and kept going down until the blade was completely submerged in the scabbard: "One city, one place The gains and losses may seem important. But in my opinion, it is people who really determine the outcome of all these.”

"Cities need people to defend, and battles also need people to fight. Even if it is a million-strong army, without someone to lead and command, it is nothing more than a mess. At best, it is nothing more than ordinary people with swords and guns. , It’s enough to calm down.” Xiang Chu stroked the hilt of the battle sword with his hand, his movements were not gentle, on the contrary, they were extremely heavy, making one almost think that he would draw his sword in the next moment and raise it soaring. killing intent.

"And let me tell you now, the person who can decide the life and death of the Mo family is in Jinzhou at this moment, what should you think?" Xiang Chu said.

"The person who decided all of this?" Li Mo's eyes showed a bit of surprise, "Who is it?"

4Chapter 16 Make way

Wang Xuanwei sat on the chair, closed his eyes, quietly listened to Gong Shu Yinxue read the letter in his hand, and sighed long.

He should have been angry, if it was him in the past, he showed his sharpness, and he would have directly appealed to the giant and demanded that Guo Kai's head be chopped off.

The cause of the incident was that Guo Kai opened the letter sent from Jinzhou privately. Seeing the report from Jinzhou that the Tang army surrounding Jinzhou was only [-], it was not a cause for concern.

So the governor of Xingzhou was ecstatic, thinking that it was time for him to make a contribution, so he dispatched troops to take Xingzhou's [-] elite cavalry to help Jinzhou, but just left the city for a day, he met Tang's general Longju head-on.

Half of Tang Jun's 20 troops into the Mohist army were under Longju's command. Their strength was not weaker than Xiang Chu's [-] troops.

The results are naturally predictable.

After a big defeat, Guo Kai wanted to escape back to Xingzhou, but Biansheng Longju had already anticipated his thoughts and directly led his troops to cut off his return path, so the panicked Guo Kai fought and fled all the way, and was finally forced to retreat to Pinggu.

As far as Guo Kai is concerned, even if his [-] cavalry are intact, it is impossible to fight against the Tang army, let alone a battle with [-] Tang troops?What's more, Tang Guozheng Southern Army also paid great attention to the training of cavalry after suffering from the losses of Qingzhou ghost cavalry. The strength of Zhengnan cavalry may be inferior to that of black cavalry and Qingzhou ghost cavalry, but they are not no-name cavalry. Can shake.

Naturally, he suffered another big defeat, and simply retreated into the valley, relying on the terrain to survive.

If he was someone else, he would lose if he lost, but the army he brought out was all from Xingzhou. Now Xingzhou City is empty of defenses. If the commander-in-chief of the Tang army is not stupid, how could he miss such a good opportunity?

If Xingzhou is lost, not only Jinzhou will face desperation, but the entire northeast of the Mohist family may face no danger.

"Does Guo Kai pretend to be feces and urine? He can't fight, but he is very good at greedy for merit. Seeing the benefits is like a wild cat smelling meat. Using such a person to guard Xingzhou is more than success than failure!" Gongshu Chahuai Furious, he gripped the armrests of the chair with both hands until they creaked. The good mahogany chair kept dropping sawdust.

Of course, with the financial resources of the public loser, he would not care about such a chair. The head of the public loser, Gong Shu Yinxue, sat opposite to Gong Shucha. Compared with Gongshucha's anger, she seemed very worried: "What should we do now? The prefecture is an important town, originally guarded by 20 troops, even [-] Tang troops would be enough to protect itself, but now that Xingzhou is full of elites, and there is no county guard in the city, doesn't that mean it is given to Tang for nothing?"

"Of course it can't be given to the Tang Kingdom." Wang Xuan said slightly, "So...we have to support Xingzhou."

As soon as these words came out, both of them looked at him at the same time.

Support Xingzhou?

Did they hear wrong?With Jinzhou's current strength, self-defense is still difficult, not to mention that among the 5000 defenders, only 3000 can be called elite, and the remaining [-] can hardly even be arranged in a simple formation. Once out of the city and fighting in the wild...it can't even resist the Tang army's charge.

And most importantly, the [-] Tang troops now cover the city like a mountain, and Xiang Chu has already arranged for the defenders to block all the roads out of the city. Go out, but also break through [-] Tang troops to support Xingzhou?

idiot's dream...

However, Wang Xuanwei chose to say it, not only in words, but also in his heart: "The current situation is like this, I can only lead troops beyond my authority, and I will bear all the responsibilities. As for the manpower... I need 3000 people, one person and three horses. The remaining 5000 people will remain in Jinzhou."

"3000 people? This is too risky." Gong Shucha said in a deep voice, "There are 20 Tang troops, what can 3000 people do? What's more, the [-] Tang troops outside the city have not yet retreated. How will the general leave the city?"

"If I'm right, the Tang army will retreat soon." Wang Xuanwei looked calm, his resolute lines and gray temples showed a bit of light in the hall, "But if we really wait until the Tang army has retreated before going out of the city, I'm afraid that the general situation is over, even if we can reach Xingzhou, it will not help the situation."

"That……"

"So, we must let the one hundred thousand troops... give way!" Wang Xuanwei's eyes narrowed slightly, and the two eyebrows raised like vigorous eagle wings.

Gongshu Yinxue and Gongshucha looked at each other, if Wang Xuanwei hadn't been their top general, or the invincible "seeker", I'm afraid they would think that the person sitting in front of them was a complete lunatic.

Make way for a hundred thousand troops?

What kind of person could come up with something so crazy?

But the reason why Wang Xuanwei is Wang Xuanwei is because he dared to think like this, not only dared to think like this, but also dared to actually do it.

Just as someone came to report the movement of the Tang army outside the city, and the three camps began to move out, Wang Xuanwei had already ordered soldiers in the camp, and nine thousand horses were eating quietly in the stables. With a large basin, a large amount of oats, soybeans, black beans, and sorghum were sprinkled in the manger.

"Eat, eat." The soldier who raised the horse looked at the horses that were feasting. After raising them for so many years, he also developed feelings for these horses. Now Wang Xuanwei is going to take these horses out of the city, and even break through a hundred thousand troops. The blockade, no matter how you look at it, is a kind of death.

But after all, it was General Wang Xuanwei!

A feeling of reverence arose in Xiaobing's heart. Because of the blockade of the public losers, they had never known that Wang Xuanwei was in the city. Now that the news spread suddenly, he realized that Jinzhou was able to defend and survive several waves of strong attacks. Wang Xuanwei arranged in secret.

"I don't even have the chance to fight under the general. If you go to the battlefield, you have to be more confident." The soldier stroked the horse's mane and said affectionately.

The war horse neighed and shook its head, as if responding to his words, while chewing beans in its mouth, making a crunching sound.

"After I leave, Jinzhou is begging you." Wang Xuanwei walked in the barracks, side by side with Gongshucha, "If there is still a chance, I will advise the giant and make you a general, or I can't lead the public loser back to Ji. City... But that's all I can do."

Gong Shucha lowered his eyes. If he could, he would rather go out on his own instead of Wang Xuanwei: "You don't need to say more, General, my affairs are not worth the attention of General."

Wang Xuan smiled gently: "This is not your business."

Gongshucha looked up at him.

Wang Xuanwei continued: "This is a matter of the Mohist family. It is my duty to select talents for the country to be generals. Although I am no longer a general, the title is still there. If so, I am still a member of the Mohisth family. As a member, you must always do your part for the Mo family."

"General..." Gong Shucha's eyes suddenly turned red, he stopped, and bowed deeply, "The general's righteousness, Gong Shucha... will definitely remember it in his heart."

Wang Xuanwei also stopped in his tracks, stretched out a hand to put on his shoulder, and sighed softly: "There are people like General Gongshu in my Mo family, so it can be seen that my Mo family is not exhausted. For so many years, my Mo family has more than Once on the verge of extinction, there may be a more urgent situation than today. But my Mohist school still stands because there are countless hopeful people who refuse to give up."

With a little force, he patted Gong Shucha on the shoulder, and then walked step by step onto the wooden platform built by the school yard. Standing below were three thousand elite soldiers selected by him. Strong, with sharp eyes like a wolf.

It was only today that they found out that the general was hiding in the big tent of the barracks. At this moment, looking at the figure on the stage, they couldn't help but straighten their waists, hoping to put all their energy and energy in this moment. revealed.

"Soldiers!" Wang Xuanwei looked ordinary before he came to the stage, even a little old-fashioned when he walked on the road, but when he stood on the high platform, he looked like an emperor who looked down on the world and returned to his throne. A fierce aura of the battlefield suddenly rose from his body.

After decades of military service, he witnessed countless lives and deaths, but he still survived, and this time, he didn't think he would die.

Qin Ke and Abu stood beside him in armor, with complicated eyes...

4Chapter 17 Expedition

Strictly speaking, Qin Ke was forced to stand here. Obviously this time the expedition was extremely dangerous, but for some reason Wang Xuanwei still did not forget their existence and insisted on taking him to the expedition together.

Facing Wang Xuanwei's powerful deterrent force, he naturally had no room to refuse.Seeing that he couldn't stop him, Abu resolutely decided to follow in Qin Ke's footsteps, brothers side by side.

As for Gao Yishui, Qin Ke asked him to stay and protect Cai Yan and Wuxing Sinan. Before leaving, he said to Gao Yishui: "If I can't come back, help me take her to Jingwu. There are sisters and Zhang Fu , life will always be easy, if she wants to go back to the Tang Kingdom in the future..."

Gao Yishui closed the paper fan and said with a smile: "Understood, send her back, right? I don't want to take this job... It's too troublesome, but you insisted on bringing her out of the Tang Dynasty back then... Fuck me Son? You'd better come back and end it yourself."

"You..." Qin Ke knew the meaning behind Gao Yishui's words, and shook his head helplessly, "I'll have to talk about it when I get back."

"Okay, I won't see you off, anyway, we'll see you again soon." Gao Yishui chuckled.

Qin Ke spread his hands helplessly: "Are you so sure that I can come back? With 3000 people, we have to go through an army of [-], and we have to rush to help Xingzhou. If it weren't for the three of us combined not being able to beat Wang Xuanwei, I wouldn't have gone. "

"I can only say that at least Wang Xuanwei didn't intend to die." Gao Yishui said: "So as long as you follow him closely, nothing will happen."

Follow him closely and everything will be fine?

Qin Ke looked at Wang Xuanwei's back, but inexplicably believed this sentence. Some people are only suitable for farming and turning the soil to live a small life, such as himself.

But there are still some people, they are born to gallop on the battlefield, as long as they stand proudly, even if there are thousands of troops in front of them, they will not be able to stop them.

"Everyone!" Wang Xuanwei raised his voice sharply, and said, "Everyone knows that since the coalition forces of the two countries attacked our Mohist family, our Mohist family has suffered heavy casualties. Slaughtered in front of the battle. The Tang army is so rampant on the land of my Mohist family..."

Speaking of this, the soldiers below had already clenched the weapons in their hands, tightly closed their lips, and there was a bit of anger in their eyes.

yes.How could they have forgotten?Many of them were selected from among the victims. The Tang army burned their houses, took their wives away, and slaughtered their families. They have nowhere to go.

However, they still survived, even though they lived like wild dogs, fleeing all the way to Jinzhou, just for one bite of food, just to survive, they had to fight with their fellow travelers, and groveled and smiled at those well-dressed rich people welcome……

Gong Shucha stood under the stage, watching them quietly, remembering what Wang Xuanwei had said to himself when he was selecting these people.

"In fact, every strong person hides a cowardice behind them." When Wang Xuanwei said this, he sighed slightly, "But because of this cowardice, they are stronger than anyone else."

Just live, just live, as long as you live, there is still hope for life.

Most people think so, and because of this, they serve as soldiers and eat food, even if they don't want to fight, but in the current situation, what better way out for them?

Just having such a desire to survive is not enough. There is still a flame lurking in the hearts of these people. It is humiliation, hatred, grief after losing their homeland, and regret for failing to protect their wives and children. They stand here , Straighten their chests, not because they all regard life and death as nothing, but because they all understand the horror of death.

And when the flame burst out, they were truly fearless, not to mention standing in front of them was the invincible general!

Wang Xuanwei's face suddenly turned grim: "Now that Xingzhou is in an emergency, and most of our Mohist army is concentrated at the border to fight against the sea, even if we want to send troops to support, it may be too late. However, Xingzhou is the strategic center in the northeast of our Mohist family. Not only will Jinzhou immediately become a fish on the chopping board of the Tang army, but even the entire northeast of the Mo family will be gradually looted by the Tang army. By then, you will have nothing, your only wives and children, the lingering Gaotang, and even It's yourselves! You will all be pushed under Tang Jun's butcher's knife again."

When Wang Xuanwei said this, there was a commotion among the crowd. Some people's eyes showed fear, some people's eyes showed anger, and some people were anxious. They couldn't help shouting: "General! Then what shall we do?"

"Yes! General! What are we going to do? You tell us! At worst, we'll risk our lives!"

Of course they knew that Wang Xuanwei gathered them here definitely not just to say a few words, so at this moment, they focused all their expectant eyes on Wang Xuanwei.

Wang Xuan raised a hand slightly. Strangely, at this moment, the voices in the entire school field disappeared without a trace. Everyone suppressed their breathing, felt the powerful heartbeat in their chests, and stared at each other. Wait quietly.

Those rough hands couldn't help but clenched the handle of the knife around his waist, almost couldn't help pulling them out.

"Precisely because we can no longer see our relatives and flesh and blood being pushed under Tang Jun's butcher knife, we can't just sit and wait in the city." Wang Xuan said in a low voice, "The rumors are not wrong, I really plan to take you out, Break out of the encirclement of [-] Tang troops, rush all the way to help Xingzhou!"

The crowd was in an uproar. When the news came, few people took it seriously. They gathered together were only 3000 people. Even if they were on horses, the Tang army was like an iron wall outside the city. How would they rush out?

It's just that Wang Xuanwei personally admitted this matter, they couldn't help but look at each other, and began to wonder if they heard it wrong.

Wang Xuanwei continued: "Indeed, this sounds like a fairy tale. War is not a child's play. 3000 people against 10 people will undoubtedly die. But if we don't do this, after the fall of Xingzhou, Jinzhou will still be unable to keep it. Under the nest, how can there be no eggs? You, your family members, will not end well."

He raised his voice and looked around: "In this case, why can't we fight for the last time? Even if we die in battle, at least when we die, we don't have to die with guilt. Even if we see our relatives in the underworld, we can hold our heads high chest, saying that he was willing to die instead of hiding in a hole like a mouse until the butcher knife actually fell on his neck."

Seeing the eyes of the soldiers below gradually become firm, Wang Xuanwei's mouth curved into an arc, and he said loudly: "I, Wang Xuanwei, can assure you all! In this battle, if you charge, you will always see my back. If you retreat, I will never see you." I will stay at the end to block the sword for you!"

He gritted his teeth and looked at the crowd with burning eyes: "You have never been my soldiers, but this time, we will fight side by side until the last drop of blood is shed. Even though there are only 3000 people, I believe that when we step on the When a war horse charges towards the Tang army, it can be as strong as 3 people, so what about a hundred thousand Tang army? They are equally vulnerable to me, Wang Xuanwei!"

He almost yelled out the last sentence.