Watch the sea

Under Su Lang's instruction, the movements in Yinghai city were quickly and unhindered, and the nails mixed in by Yingbei refugees were introduced to the Donghai Navy Zuo Division camp a hundred miles away.

The fact that Duke Ying's mansion hired a genius doctor earlier just made Jiang Di skeptical about the news that the plague could be cured, and he remained calm and did not move.But less than two days later, something happened again - Ye Jianwei, the leader of the Eastern Capital, suddenly brought a group of people to Yinghai City.

No one can say for sure how capable Lishan is with two Mahayana realms.What's more, there were a group of people when the Eastern Capital Landlord came, but there were only two riders when he left the city an hour later. You don't need to think about it, you know that Ye Jianwei's trip must be a special trip to send Ying Hai a helper.In this critical point, the intention of the Eastern Capital Landlord to send helpers is nothing other than Yingbei Plague.

Now Jiang Di couldn't sit still anymore.

Yinghai City has a profound foundation, easy to defend and difficult to attack, he didn't plan to fight hard from the beginning, the confrontation a few days ago was just a strategy for exhausting troops.

The plague in Yingbei was rampant, and the government of Yingguo was helpless. It was only a matter of time before the plague got out of control.In extreme times, no matter how profound Ying Hai's background is, he and Jiang Di cannot afford to spend it.Originally, Jiang Di only had to wait for a time when the plague broke out completely in the city, and then he could capture the city effortlessly.

But now that the accident has happened, we can't wait any longer.

Jiang Di clenched his fist and slammed it on the desk in front of him resentfully, his face was so gloomy that water dripped out, and the lieutenants in the military tent did not dare to make a sound, and stood in a row with their eyes, nose, nose, nose, and heart.It took a while to hear Jiang Di ordering in a deep voice: "Bring the map."

"Bring the map." Su Lang raised his head and ordered.

The sun was shining brightly in the tent, and the defense map of Yinghai City was quickly unfolded on the long table. Xie Yu and several generals in the army were gathering together to deduce the sand table.

News came from the scouts this morning that the entire army of the left division of the Donghai Navy is under martial law and is about to move.Xie Beng immediately became vigilant, realizing that the news that Su Lang deliberately ordered someone to release it played a role, Jiang Di might not be able to sit still.

"There is only one chance, and Jiang Di doesn't dare to gamble." Su Lang's eyes were dark, with a faint smile in his eyes, and he said in a calm tone: "He knows that the plague in Yingbei will not go away so fast, and there is still a chance to fight now. If After a while, when the plague is really gone and the internal worries are eliminated, it will be even more difficult to take down Yinghai City. Speaking of it, I really have to thank the nails who came in from the refugees. Without them, it would be really difficult. It’s not good for Jiang Di to be convinced of what’s going on in the city so quickly.”

Xie Beng nodded, and said loudly: "That's true. Jiang Di is always cautious and cunning. He thinks carefully about baskets and baskets. He doesn't dare to use real swords and guns in war. He will use some dirty tricks."

Xie Ji and Su Lang came to Yinghai one after another. The plague in Yinghai City, the imperial physicians of the imperial capital have been changed several times, but there is no reason to cure it. In the end, it was Yan Zhefei, the master of Qianyong realm, and Ye Ye, the master of Dongdu realm. See Wei come to solve the problem.

It was clearly a disease, but the imperial physician was helpless. On the contrary, the martial arts sect had an idea. After watching for a few days, Xie Lu had a rough understanding of this strange plague. He hated Jiang Di more and more for using the lives of the people as a means to trick him. , I wanted to fight him a long time ago.

Xie Ling was scolding Jiang Di and King Jing in his heart, and Su Lang said with a slight smile: "General Xie is not in a hurry to fight him hard, now is not the time to take Jiang Di down. Only Jiang Di is not us. The purpose behind him, those old foxes from aristocratic families who boarded the king's thief ship, are equally important."

Xie Beng remembered what Su Lang said to him in the Duke's mansion the day before yesterday, and nodded hurriedly. The lieutenant at the side didn't know the reason, so he asked in a low voice in doubt.

Xinghui was standing next to the deputy general. Hearing the words, he smiled slightly and explained to him aloud: "Yinghai is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are generals here. The strength of the division is still not enough. King Jing is now fighting with the Marquis of Shuo'an at the junction of China and Wanzhou, and Dingkang is in a fierce battle with the garrison of Ningzhou, and they can't spare their hands."

"However, respecting the king is a must in the land of Changzhou, so Ying Hai has to conquer everything. Jiang Di must and can only seek support from those aristocratic families in Changzhou who defy the water and respect the king. Some of the Changzhou garrison who are connected with each other by the same family in Zhouzhou will definitely have a change, and then the fox will be caught easily."

Xinghui didn't continue to say the following words, he and Su Lang looked at each other, and exchanged a look in mid-air.

King Jing is just a hook. What His Majesty wants is not only to suppress the rebellion, but more importantly, to take advantage of this rebellion to truly control Kyushu, and Changzhou is the most critical part of it.

The Son of Heaven looks up to the sun and the moon, facing the four poles and governing the eight wastelands. Every inch of land in Kyushu should be surrendered under his feet. Changzhou, which is complicated and always difficult to control, has naturally become a confidant.

The rebellion of the king of Qi five years ago was an opportunity for the young emperor who was enthroned and controlled by others to regain his power. Today, King Jing has unknowingly embarked on the old path of his elder brother and has become the paving stone for the emperor to truly rule the world and rule Kyushu. .

"Yinghai City is three feet high, the gate is strong, and Yingshui flows around the city, giving Yinghai a natural moat that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. When the time to close the net is not coming, we don't need to compromise our troops and Jiang Di's strength." Fight, fight and retreat, just stick to the city gate." Su Lang pointed to the city defense map that was spread out.

Xie Ling looked serious, nodded after thinking about it, and started to discuss with the generals how to deal with the enemy.

At the same time, both Yinghai City and the Donghai Naval Left Division camp on the opposite side entered a state of first-level alert.

It wasn't until the end of the day that the discussions in the tent stopped.As the war was about to break out, Su Lang had to personally go to ask about the resettlement situation of the people in the city, and Ying Bei would also go to inspect it again.

When he set off and Xinghui left, he walked to the tent door and stopped suddenly, turned around and bowed to all the generals in the tent, and solemnly said with clasped fists: "You generals have worked hard to defend Yinghai. On behalf of my father and Duke Ying's government, I would like to thank you all."

"What are you doing!" Xie Yu hurriedly stepped forward, pressed Su Lang's hand, and said: "It is my bounden duty to exterminate the rebellion and protect the country and the people, so I cannot thank you." The generals in the tent They all voiced their agreement.

Su Lang smiled slightly, and said sincerely: "It all depends on the generals."

***

Jiang Di moved his hand in the middle of the night.

The entire army of the left division of the East China Sea Navy was dispatched, and artillery fire raided the gate of Yinghai Nancheng.

Xie Ling was prepared and responded immediately.The Vanguard Battalion of the garrison army fought and retreated, and slipped around sixty miles away from Yinghai City for several times. Strategically, the whole army retreated to Yinghai City.

Seeing the enemy's retreat, the morale of the left division of the East China Sea Navy led by Jiang Di suddenly soared.

The enemy cavalry was the first to bear the brunt, their horseshoes galloped, the sound shook the ground, and they rushed towards the gate of Yinghai Nan City at a very high speed.

Xie Ling stepped on the crenel of the city wall, waved his hands to the left and right and shouted: "Shoot the arrow!"

Thousands of arrows shot down from Yinghai City like meteors in an instant, and the arrows were lit with kerosene, illuminating the entire night sky as bright as day in an instant, and smashed towards the enemy cavalry.

Long and short cannons roared alternately, and the city and the city were filled with flames, and the smell of burnt flesh and blood mixed together and hit the face immediately.The flesh and blood scattered under the city of Yinghai, and exploded into bloody flowers.The first batch of cavalry who attacked the city hadn't died yet, and the second batch had already caught up with their shields——

A new round of shouts of killing came again, and the crash car carrying the giant wood followed, and the enemy soldiers with shields and the catapult were paralleled, forming a dense mass of darkness, like a giant man-eating beast showing a dark spot in the night. Hidden minions.

"coming."

The confrontation some time ago was nothing more than a small fight, but now this battle is a real attack and defense.

Under the cover of chariots, the cavalry charged violently towards Yinghai City. Su Lang stood on the city wall, condescendingly looking down at Jiang Di's handsome flag in the distance, with calm eyes, he ordered: "Close the suspension bridge and open the gate."

The messenger yelled backwards, and the huge suspension bridge in front of Yinghainan City Gate was quickly pulled up. The sound of rumbling water covered up the shouts of the enemy's charge.Before the siege soldiers near the moat could make a sound, they were rushed into the river by the flood.At the same time, the defenders on the city wall fired arrows again.

The tripping rope in front of the city gate was pulled up abruptly, and the charging cavalry had no time to rein in their horses, and they all fell off their horses and fell into the river. Shouts, screams, horses neighed, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.

The moat that had just been filled with water hadn't come to let the people on the city wall see the blue color of the water, it was stained red by the separated flesh and blood floating corpses, and in an instant it turned into a puddle of dirty blood lying across the city of Yinghai .

Jiang Di reacted quickly, the catapults and long cannons advanced together, and the chariots lined up ready to go.

Xie Ling stood by the crenel of the city wall, gestured towards Su Lang, and shouted again to the left and right: "Set up shields! Archers follow! Shoot catapults!"

Su Lang quickly ordered: "Create Changhong!"

Before the guard turned around and ran to deliver the order, the huge fireball boulder flew over and fell down. Xinghui stepped forward with quick eyesight and quick hands, and grabbed the collar of the commandant with one hand and dragged him back quickly. The boulder passed by.

The heat wave spread everywhere, killing and wounding a lot, and the soldiers who had no time to avoid it were smashed and burned into a blurred pool of flesh and blood in an instant.But no one had time to be sad and flustered. The orderly got up and barely stood up straight. He didn't even have time to thank him, and quickly ran to the tower, shouting: "Changhong!"

Flint hit the city wall one after another.Xing Hui returned to Su Lang's side, drew his sword and cut off the sharp arrow that was shot in front of him, and the sword energy he brought out blocked the arrows flying from the city wall in front of him.

Under his cover, Su Lang picked up his bow and set up his arrows. The heavy bow was stretched to the extreme, and the burning arrow pierced through the air with the inner strength wrapped in it. There was a sharp hiss in the night, and the words "Jiang Jiang The military flag with the word "" fell down in response, and the momentum of the arrow remained undiminished. The flames it brought passed through the enemy army and sank into the armor behind the catapult body without any errors. in the bushes.

The defenders on the city wall shouted loudly and their morale soared. Following Su Lang's second arrow, the heavy artillery Changhong was also brought in.

The momentum of the siege had not subsided for a moment, and at Jiang Di's order, the left division of the Donghai Navy in the distance rushed out with all their chariots, recklessly rushing towards the city of Yinghai.The artillery fire was behind the cover, and it rained down on the Yinghai city wall.

The mortal struggle had just begun. The artillery from both sides fired at full speed, and there was almost no gap between them. The screams were covered by the artillery fire one after another, and the blood flowed into a stream from the top of the city to the bottom of the city.Whether it was Yinghai City or the left division of the Donghai Navy who was besieging the city, the sky was full of flames and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

The soaring blood energy mixed with the smell of the burning armor made one feel sick.A little soldier under Xie Yu dodged the oncoming arrows, ran all the way to the back of Su Lang and Xing Hun, panting and urgently said: "Young master, young master, the enemy's attack is fierce, it's too dangerous, general please The two retreat temporarily."

Su Lang raised his hand to wipe off the blood that splashed on his face, and when he heard this, he turned his head to look at him, and suddenly asked for no reason: "How old are you this year?"

The young soldier was startled, and subconsciously replied: "Sixteen..."

"Is this your first time on the battlefield?"

The little soldier nodded hesitantly.

"Sixteen, it's the first time I went to the battlefield." Su Lang repeated with a smile, and said, "Five years ago during the rebellion of King Qi, I was also 16 years old, and it was also the first time I went to the battlefield, following my father. Then After the first confrontation with King Qi's rebel army, I didn't want to fight anymore, and I couldn't even eat meat for a long time."

"I even complained at the time why my father insisted on taking me there. Anyway, it's not my turn to charge with a sword. Later, I realized in retrospect that my father didn't take me there because he wanted me to learn how to charge. To take the head of the enemy is to teach me the courage to fear death and the inherent responsibility. So—”

Yunqi Chaosheng in Su Lang's hand suddenly got out of its sheath, and swiped the horizontal sword, the majestic sword energy swept down the city wall with a huge unfallen boulder not far away.He looked back at the young soldier, pointed the long sword in his hand at the stone wall engraved with the word "Yinghai" obliquely below, and continued to smile: "So anyone can retreat, but I can't, because every inch of land in this city , Every citizen is my responsibility."

He bent his eyes: "You are a few years younger than me, and you haven't quit, how can I quit?"

The young soldier was startled again: "But, but..."

He "but" for a long time without saying anything, so he had to give up on Su Lang, and looked at Xinghui in a daze.

Although Xinghui's words were addressed to him, his eyes were on Su Lang: "Don't look at me, I'm older than you."

Su Lang just smiled lightly.

The cannon fire didn't stop, another round came down, Su Lang and Xing Hun stood side by side on the city wall, beside the soldiers who fired cannons and shot arrows.They hold long swords in their hands just like everyone else. They have the courage to fear death in their hearts and the inherent responsibility on their shoulders. The army fought to the end.

In the noisy sky of artillery fire, Su Lang's horizontal sword cut off the arrows shot ten feet in front of him for the soldiers beside him, and heard Xing Hui say to him: "If you don't retreat, I will not retreat."

……

This battle was fought from nightfall to the dawn of the second day, Yinghai city wasted a lot, and Jiang Di suffered a heavy loss, so he had to temporarily retreat with his troops.

In front of Yinghai City, corpses were strewn across the field, blood flowed like rivers, and the ground was full of messes waiting to be cleaned up.Even if the enemy army retreated, no one dared to relax completely, Xie Beng didn't close his eyelids, and started to discuss with Su Lang again to arrange the city defense deployment.

The military doctor counted the casualties, Su Lang called Su Zhang and said: "You should write down the list of casualties and soldiers, and remember to send someone to compensate their families. Since they were injured and suffered for Ying Hai, in addition to the government's compensation, add [-]% , the account will be paid directly from the Duke's Mansion."

Su Zhang went as ordered.

Xie Qing finished his breakfast, walked in with big strides, and said straight to the point: "Jiang Di didn't get any benefits from the front, and Yingbei should be on guard, the refugees got mixed up with King Jing's nails, Now I'm afraid they will do something again."

Su Lang nodded: "Jiang Di attacked the city from the south gate of Yinghai, because he wanted the people in Yingnan to panic and panic. Although this battle was won, the blockade of Yingbei must be tightened instead of being relaxed. Otherwise, I'm afraid someone will fish in troubled waters."

"That's right." Xie Bing rubbed his brows, and said with some concern: "Now we'll wait for the Changzhou garrison to change, and we'll see if we can catch the fish under the water."

Su Lang smiled slightly: "There is no turning back when you open the bow. Jiang Di has already made a move. Of course, it is impossible to give up. Don't talk about him. King Jing wants to control Changzhou and confront the imperial capital. If you can't win Yinghai, it is absolutely impossible. There will definitely be changes in the twelve cities in the south of the Yangtze River. We'll just wait for the fish to take the bait."

It was the day, the East China Sea Navy left division camp.

Jiang Di waited for a long time, and finally received the order to respect the king from Jiang Jincheng's secret guard.

Of course he knew that once Ying Hairang got a chance to breathe, the one who couldn't breathe would become him.But with Xie Ji's troops on the other side, Ying Hai couldn't win with the strength of the left division of the East China Sea Navy.

Jiang Di called his cronies and handed over the king's warrant together with the letterhead: "Give it to the Mufu of Jindu Prefecture, and personally hand it over to Murui Hesi of Changzhou Prefecture, and tell him that time is urgent, and the Changzhou garrison must be quick."

After World War I, Jiang Di did not continue to lead troops to attack the city for three consecutive days. Su Lang stood on the watchtower and looked towards the direction of the left division camp of the East China Sea Navy in the distance.

"The fish is on the bait." Xinghui said, "Jiang Di is waiting for the aristocratic families from the twelve cities in the south of the Yangtze River."

"That's right." Su Lang smiled softly on his lips, "But he can't wait for reinforcements, it's time to close the net."

***

It's night, Ningzhou.

Duke Ying Su Que, who came from the Silk Road Northwest of Jingzhou, arrived at the border of Ningchang under the escort of the emperor's shadow guard who went to meet him.

It was dusk, and they did not cross the border directly to rest at the station less than a hundred miles away.Instead, the Shadow Guard of the Son of Heaven led Su Que to detour to the temporary station of the Ningzhou garrison in a different direction from the post station.

The deputy general of the governor of Ningzhou received a secret order from the emperor's shadow guard in the imperial capital early in the morning, and personally brought two people to the gate to welcome Duke Ying in in a low-key way.

As soon as he stepped into the camp, Su Que saw a person standing in front of the long case, with a smile in his eyes, and his eyes met his own.

Su Que remembered him, the son of Zhongli Chu family, and the senior brother of Ye Xinghui, the young master of Lishan Mountain.

On March [-]th, the Patriarch of Sifang of Kyushu came to Beijing to report on his duties. In front of Zichen Hall in the imperial capital, Martial Venerable Fang Hongzhen of Cangwu suddenly tried to test this young man in full view, but in front of Mahayana, he never even frowned.

At that time, Su Que felt that this young man named Chu Heng was not like what he had shown in the Hall of Martial Heroes all the time. On the contrary, it was possible that he had an unusual background.

as predicted--

"Duke." Chu Heng smiled slightly, and raised his hand to salute Su Que as a junior: "Ji Wuyue is here in Lishan Mountain, and I am here to welcome you according to His Majesty's order."

The author says:

According to my estimation, there are about four or five chapters left to finish the main text~