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【1Chapter 17】

The wind in early spring was extremely cold. Chi Heng led the cavalry to Changliu as a pioneer. He was so anxious that he marched slowly and returned quickly.The long flowing water is so fast, rolling with turbid waves.

Jing Shuo stood behind Chi Heng: "Don't worry, on the day you fainted, I sent a fast-horse envoy to follow Lang Jiang on his journey. If there is any change, he will come back and report naturally. Zhonghou, since we are on the border If you want to attack, you should think about it, that is Shuzhou Feng Zhencang's territory. We are an army of [-], not [-] ripe straw, we can do whatever we want."

Chi Heng raised his whip and stared at the long flowing water.

He was silent.

Because the heart doesn't hurt suddenly, is it possible to save the day?For Jing Shuo's words, Chi Heng had already thought about it in his heart, before everything was unknown, he couldn't act rashly - after all, both premonition and astrology were unreliable.Looking at the long stream, the tumbling peach blossoms were submerged in an instant, and the situation was vivid in his memory. He said slowly: "Call all the school captains to discuss something."

The story of Chi Heng's hemoptysis spread all over the night, and everyone knew why he came here.Hearing the summoning order, the school captains quickly surrounded him.

Chi Heng stood beside the bad water, standing against the wind, and said sternly: "If I give the order to attack Shuzhou now, what should you do?"

He didn't look back.

He didn't look at the faces of the generals or the exchange of eyes, only heard the slight rustling movements, and a school captain said: "Marquis Zhong, attacking the city is a big event..." He hesitated to speak.

Jing Shuo calmly took over the words: "The general is away, there are some places on the way, and some cities are not attacked."

Everyone listened to him.

Jing Shuo continued: "Since the Marquis of Zhong is in command of our army, we should obey orders and have a duty to do so! Besides, we were going to assist the Grand Master in attacking Anzhou, but if the leader of King Yan's army is in trouble, which one is more important? Heavy, of course there is a difference."

Chi Heng turned around, a little surprised, he thought Jing Shuo would disagree.

Jing Shuo went on to say, "It's just that it's easy to get in Shuzhou and hard to get out. We only have [-] troops, and we don't know anything about Shuzhou. It's no joke to defeat Feng Zhencang's heavy army, let alone lead the army." Let the [-] troops do whatever they want on the land of Shuzhou."

The crowd was silent.

Chi Heng scanned the crowd and repeated: "If I give the order to attack Shuzhou, you are willing to obey!"

The cold wind blew across the long-running river, setting off waves. Jing Shuo slowly knelt down on one knee, and then the second general, the third, and the fourth... The cold wind was blowing the cold armor, and everyone's voices were in unison : "The life of the Marquis of Zhong, he will go through fire and water at the end."

Not long after, the army has been disrupted and re-divided into five echelons arranged in a cone-shaped formation.Although the soldiers are still these soldiers, it is like a wall that has been pushed back and rebuilt.Chi Heng also reassigned all the leaders. Unlike the original ones who led their own soldiers, the brave generals were at the forefront and the calm ones were at the center.In this way, the methodical march immediately turned into a sharp-edged army.

Chi Heng was cold and stiff like never before, too tough to resist.

All the generals took the task and stood by.

The cold wind rustled.

Chi Heng stood by the river, he watched a fast horse galloping ahead, and suddenly his heart ached again.Watching the fast horse come to the river, he recruited a fishing boat and came this way.Jing Shuo stood aside and didn't help.Chi Heng turned around and gave a rare smile: "Jingshuo, what you said is good news or bad news."

Jing Shuo was silent.

Immediately, the envoy turned over and knelt down on the ground, his complexion as dark as black: "Report to the Marquis, Governor: Lang Jiang, Lang Jiang..."

Jing Shuo said, "Talk slowly."

The messenger calmed down for a while, showing anxiety and sadness: "Report to the Marquis: The last general found out. Three days ago, Lang Jiang passed by the Lieyun Gorge in Lieyun County in Shuzhou. He fell into a trap and was unfortunately captured. He is still in Lieyun Gorge. Inside Yuncheng. At that time, there were two other generals with Lang, and the other two were killed."

In an instant, Chi Heng's world was spinning.

After an unknown amount of time, Chi Heng turned his attention to the water again, and the long flowing water had turned black.He clenched his fist, pinched his fingers into his palm, and said slowly: "Isn't Lieyun County Feng Zhencang's territory?"

Lieyun County is a county in the middle of the state. It is far from being qualified as a county. It is a small county at most.

The entire Shuzhou was once the fiefdom of the ancestors of the Feng family, but Lieyun County was not.

Because the leader of Lieyun County, Ge Shi, is extremely fierce, the people of Lieyun City are also very tough.Ever since there was a fiefdom, there has been a battle for Lieyun City that lasted for more than ten years, but it was unsuccessful, and it cost lives and money.In view of the fact that Lieyun City never crossed the threshold, it was agreed later that they would not interfere with each other.Feng Zhencang also obeyed the ancestral precepts and never took back Lieyun City.

The current ruler of Lieyun County is Ge Wuze, who has no grievances or enmities with Yan Wangjun.

Yan Luan would walk this route at the beginning, precisely because it was not Feng Zhencang's territory, and it was safe to walk.Besides, Yan Luan has been through so many times, how could he make a mistake at this juncture?If Ge Wuze wanted to coerce him, he wouldn't be afraid, but it took three days for the news to spread, which made it clear that Ge Wuze didn't want everyone to know.

What exactly does Ge Wuze want?

"Jing Shuo, who is Ge Wuze, why would he make things difficult for General Lang?"

Jing Shuo pondered for a long time, then slowly said: "If I have to give a reason, Lang Jiang's elder brother Yan Wang was ordered to kill Ge Wuze's father a few years ago. At that time, it should be 12 years ago."

A gust of cold air surged up, Chi Heng knew he should calm down, but he couldn't.

Chi Heng immediately ordered envoys to contact Feng Zhencang to see if the [-] Yan Wangjun could be allowed to enter; the other side sent envoys to Lieyun City, the center of Lieyun County, to negotiate with Ge Wuze; Immediately marched along the border of Ningzhou, and waited for orders at the border area closest to Lieyun City.

Not to mention that Chi Heng led the army day and night, and said that when the news reached Yuanzhou, Liang Qianlie and Duan Di immediately deployed and led the troops to help.It's just that it was rainy in early spring, and there were floods in many places, so it was very difficult to march.

Let's say that the envoy was killed immediately when he arrived in Lieyun City.As soon as the news came back, Chi Heng clenched his fists, his back felt cold, and sent another envoy.During this period, Chi Heng sent a total of three envoys back and forth, but one was killed when he went.

Ge Wuze's meaning was very clear, and he didn't negotiate at all.

Once the news leaked out, everyone must know about it, Shuzhou Feng Zhencang naturally got the news, and Chi Heng sent someone to ask for release, so he immediately rushed to the border of Shuzhou to meet Chi Heng.

Chi Heng had already made a plan to attack Shuzhou immediately if he didn't let go.

Unexpectedly, Feng Zhencang was surprisingly generous, with a gloomy expression on his face: "Feng and General Lang are very good friends. When this matter happened, Feng should have taken the lead. However, Chi Zhonghou knew the relationship between Shuzhou and Lieyun City. Well water never interferes with river water, so it is really inconvenient for Feng to intervene. In this way, Feng will act as if he didn't see, and the [-] army of King Yan's army went straight to Lieyun City."

He knew that King Yan's army was aggressive and he couldn't touch him face to face.

"However, there are still three chapters to be agreed. Feng Xing only borrows the way, but nothing else. How about Yan Wangjun and Ge Wuze, that is a matter between you, don't hurt the innocent in Shuzhou." Feng Zhencang cupped his hands and looked Swaying his sleeves, he made a very domineering gesture of inviting you into the state.

Since he was so generous, Chi Heng was not ambiguous, and immediately led an army of [-] to Lieyun City in a hurry.

All the way unhindered.

But it was pouring rain every day, and Chi Heng's heart couldn't be relieved at all, every day his heart would throb and hurt.Hurry up, wait until three days later in Lieyun City, Chi Heng drove straight in, led the elite soldiers to meet the enemy and kill the enemy, without any mercy.

The [-] army arrived in Lieyun City in an instant like a god descending.

It rained so hard that day that most of the water was above the ankles.At this time, it was not supposed to attack the city, but Chi Heng's face turned pale, he couldn't wait to see Ge Wuze.The soldiers approached the city, and the rain hurt his face, but Ge Wuze relied on the strength of the city and did not come out at all.

He was only provoked once in the middle, and Ge Wuze rode on a tall horse, and said arrogantly: "You want Yan Luan, don't you? Where did the yellow-haired boy come from? Twenty thousand troops want to run wild in Lieyun City."

After all, he threw something from his hand, returned to his horse and left.

Chi Heng ran over to pick it up, and holding it in his hand felt like the sky was falling apart. It turned out to be Yan Luan's red fur coat, which was covered with coagulated blood. The red coral with bamboo knots was actually broken into pieces.Chi Heng didn't know why the red coral was broken into pieces, and Chi Heng didn't know why the red fur coat was covered with blood.

Holding the clothes, Chi Heng knelt down in the water with his legs limp.

An hour later, Chi Heng gritted his teeth, watched the water getting more and more fierce, and ordered all the soldiers to build embankments against the mountain. As long as the water continued to rise, he did not believe that Ge Wuze would be able to sit still. Sooner or later, he would divert water to irrigate city.Worried that the water would stop, Chi Heng simply ordered people to rush upstream and built canals overnight to divert the upstream water downwards, aggravating the flood in Lieyun City.

That day, when Chi Heng looked at the night lights on the city wall of Lieyun City, his heart was already numb with pain.

Jing Shuo came to him, "Chi Zhonghou."

Chi Heng turned his head and saw that Jing Shuo's whole body was drenched and his face was pale: "Jing Shuo, have all the soldiers been dispatched?"

"They've all been dispatched—it's just that the downstream embankment suddenly collapsed, and all the soldiers who built the embankment, about [-] soldiers, have died." Jing Shuo's lips trembled and turned white, "The upstream water diversion has already collapsed. The villages around Yuncheng were all submerged, civilians were killed and injured—shall we continue?"

Chi Heng gritted his teeth: "Continue!"

Suddenly a general rushed in, slammed his things and cursed: "It's raining so much, my soldiers have been working outside for two days and two nights, and ten of them died of exhaustion and freezing. Is there no other way? It must go on like this!"

Chi Heng said coldly: "If you can't do anything, just get out, I'll go!"

After finishing speaking, he rushed out, the pouring rain was so heavy that he couldn't even stretch out his hands, the depth of the water was higher than a person, along the road he heard the sound of houses collapsing, and the cries of civilians in Lieyun County, Chi Heng couldn't hear them all, so he ran upstream , saw a general standing in front of the embankment.

Chi Heng was angry: "What are you waiting for?"

The general was silent, pointing to the farmhouses under the embankment and said: "Once the water goes out from here, the bottom will turn into a vast ocean. Zhonghou, do you want to do this?" Not only the farmhouses, but also the lives, endless One survived.

"Can you tell me where the water will reach the city of Split Cloud once it goes down?"

The general looked at Chi Heng with blurred vision: "Marquis Zhong, there are all innocent people here, must it be like this? General Duan and General Liang's troops are coming soon, a small cracked cloud city is not a problem at all, let's Can you wait a little longer? It is said that Ge Wuze has been afraid to come out because General Lang has already..."

"Nonsense!" Chi Heng roared angrily, with a stern voice.

Chi Heng threw the boulder from the catapult by himself, and it had been destroyed long ago. Under the attack of the catapult, the dike burst open, and a flood rushed out, and then the whole dike collapsed with a loud noise. The roaring and rushing water instantly submerged all visible places.

After a long time, Jing Shuo behind him said, "Water has poured into Lieyun City."