Chapter 21: White Mountain and Black Water (4)

The surroundings are full of forests covering the sky and the sun is thrust into the treetops, and every tree and grass seem to be touching.

There is no road ahead? This kind of ginseng harvesting path cannot be called a road at all. If there is no familiar guide, people will be lost after walking a mile in such a forest.

A team was walking through the dense forest, and the road was difficult to move. The soldiers and generals were already very tired, but everyone still had a bright eye and longed for the front.

In the center of the team, two generals talked while walking, and the Han people said, "General Ka, how many days will it take to walk like this mountain road."

Katun said, "Go back to General Chu, hurry up. There was a ginseng picker who had walked by before, and it took about ten days."

Chu Zhi said: "No, you must speed up. You have been working hard for more than ten days. If you drag it down, your highness can't hold on."

Katun ordered the commander: "Give orders to speed up the entire army's advance, and you must reach your destination within two days."

As soon as the order was issued, a commander in front arrived, "Report! We're here, we're here. General Qu ordered his subordinates to report that he had reached the edge of the forest. The guide said that the big city in front was Lalu Mansion!"

Chu Zhi and Katun looked at each other and smiled at each other. The arduous journey of more than ten days finally dawned.

The early morning mist enveloped the land that had not yet awakened. The ice cubes that rushed upstream from time to time on the Songhua River stood a low city in this valley that had been washed away by the river for thousands of years.

At this moment, she was like a shy girl who had just woken up in the morning mist, showing a charming charming look.

The early morning of March was still chilling, and the two Jurchens tightly wore sheepskin robes and opened the city gate tremblingly. "Squeaky" The turning of the city gate had been rusted, and it was very laborious to turn.

The two of them tried their best to push open the city gate, and one of them muttered: "If you need to kill the land, you can't send more two people. I will be exhausted when I push this door every day..."

The door opened. The two Jurchens did not believe the scene in front of them and stood there on the spot - a row of soldiers in black armor were eyeing them, and the Ming army soldiers were eyeing them.

The two of them were about to shout, but two feather arrows had been accurately sent into their throats. A general flag in front of the door waved outside and two teams of black-armored soldiers rushed out like ghosts from both sides of the city gate.

Two people quickly ran into the city, and a team quickly ran to the top of the city from the corridors on both sides. There were more than a dozen Jurchens sleeping in the city tower on the city wall with their clothes. These black-armored soldiers who fell from the sky did not allow them to wake up, and they surrounded them with a meal of chopping melons and cutting vegetables.

Many Jurchens are still sleeping and their souls return to the embrace of the immortal world.

The black-armored soldier quickly controlled the city. One soldier opened a large red flag and waved it back and forth.

Not far from the city, on the mountain, it was like a sleeping baby just now, but now the armor was shaking, and a team of cavalry whizzed out of the forest, following the second and third teams.

The torrent gathered into black, rushed towards the city gate, a large flag flashed out of the forest, and five large black words were written on it: "Guangningzhong Guard".

People are like tigers, horses are like dragons. The surging cavalry rushed into the city gate, shouting, scolding, screaming, and raiding, and the sound of weapons colliding from the city gate to the streets and alleys of Lalu.

The battle flag is facing the sword and the shadow of swords. This small town outside the border is in such a quiet morning. It is painfully trapped in a looting of blood and fire.

...

Zhu Zhi woke up slowly from the darkness. The light was so good. This was his first feeling. Where is this? In 2006 or the 28th year of Hongwu.

"I woke up, I woke up, Your Highness is awake." Two concerned faces came into Zhu Shi's eyes. On the left is Nima and on the right is Atractylodes. In Nima's eyes, tears of sadness or excitement were circled.

Tick, a tear fell on Zhu Shidi.

Zhu Zhi breathed a long sigh of relief, a 28-year-old fate in Hongwu.

Bai Zhu nervously looked at Zhu Shi's wound and said with concern: "It's been three days, Your Highness has been in a coma for three days. It's so good, I finally woke up. Can you speak?"

Zhu Zhi smiled slightly: "I can't die."

Damn, after he said this, he could no longer suppress the bitterness in his heart and cried out "huh". Zhu Shi said: "Aren't you directing the scout in front? Why did you come here?"

Bai Shu said: "It was Miss Nima who saved you in the chaos army. Otherwise..." As she said that, her eyes turned red.

Although the wound was still hurting, Zhu Shi felt sweet in her heart. The two beautiful women shed tears for herself at the same time, which was a great comfort for a man.

Zhu Shi said: "It seems that I have a great life. There are beauties trying to save them to the death, and there are also magical doctors who are rejuvenating their youth. It is not so easy to die."

Damn, she burst into tears and laughed: "Your Highness knows how dangerous the situation was at that time..."

Bai Shu said: "Yes, if you join that arrow for a little over a century, even the God of Daluo will not be able to save you."

Zhu Zhi smiled, but who knew that the wound on his chest was touching the wound, which made him frown. Atractylodes's face was full of concern: "Stop talking, the wound is still very fragile and will bleed at any time."

The three of them were talking, and as they headed Tie Xuan, they rushed into the tent, and knelt down and bowed together. Tie Xuan said excitedly: "Your Highness has finally woken up, the blessing of Liaodong!"

Zhu Shi smiled and waved his hand gently and said, "Hurry, tell me what happened that night. Where are the Jurchens now?"

Tie Xuan said: "That night, the entire Jurchen army raided at night. Fortunately, Miss Nima's scout issued a warning in advance, giving us a chance to prepare in advance, and at this time, he saved the life of the Liaodong Army.

According to the later confessions of the prisoners, they thought that His Highness was stationed in the city, and the Jurchens were divided into two groups, most of the main forces were divided into sieges, and a small number were harassed the camp.

His Highness led his army to counterattack the four gates in time, disrupting the Jurchens' offensive and providing valuable preparation time for the soldiers and generals in the city.

Later, His Highness led his army to attack the Jurchens' central army formation on the North Mountain and fell off the horse. Fortunately, Miss Nima led 500 scouts to the battlefield in time, killing the Jurchens' lineup, snatched His Highness out of the chaos, and personally escorted His Highness back to the camp.

After one night, the Jurchens did not get any advantage and withdrew before dawn.

Zhu Shi glanced at Nima gratefully, and the two of them met with each other. A red glow appeared on Nima's face. Zhu Shi asked, "What's the matter with the fire in the city?"

Tie Xuan said: "The Jurchens had an authentic tunnel connected from outside the city to inside the city. In the middle of the night, they sent out more than a hundred people to sneak in from the tunnel and set fire to the army's baggage. Just as some of the gunpowder from the Dingliao Right Guard was also ignited.

Fortunately, General Wang led his army to quickly wipe out the infiltrating Jurchens, which did not cause any greater losses.

Zhu Shi said: "Does the Jurchens know the secret of our use of firearms?"

Tie Xuan said: "According to the prisoners' confession, they did not know what kind of firearm we had, but they just ignited gunpowder by accident, and the Jurchens lost dozens of people. The gunpowder explosion disrupted the Jurchens.

It also led to their rapid destruction by our army. We were considered a blessing in disguise.”

Zhu Zhi always wondered why the firearms troops that even the court did not know were found out by the Jurchens and set fire to gunpowder and supplies. It turned out that everything was out of a misunderstanding.

Zhu Zhi asked again: "What is the current situation of the two armies?"

Tie Xuan said: "That night of melee, our army lost more than 800 people, and the Jurchens also lost more than 600 people. However, neither side had any muscles and bones. Now the Jurchens retreated back to the mountains and camped fifty miles north of Fangzhou."

Zhu Zhi frowned and murmured to himself: "What's going on? It's been fourteen days. Why is there no movement in Guangning Central Defense yet?"

Tie Xuan said: "According to the previous agreement, once the Guangning Central Guard takes Lalu, he will immediately release the pigeon. It is expected that he can reach Chenyang in one day. The messenger there will have to run for two days to reach Fangzhou at the fastest."

Zhu Zhi said: "I judge, if there is no accident. Now the city of Lalu Mansion has become my Liaodong military flag..."

...

Ten thousand cavalry of Guangning Central Guard swept across every corner of the Lalu Mansion in just one morning. The Jurchen guard general Mie Wai led more than 2,000 remaining troops to die in battle. The flag of the Liaodong Army was raised at the four gates of the Lalu Mansion.

At this point, the most important right-wing encirclement operation of the entire "Wei Qing" combat plan was a complete success.

In this plan, whether Zhu Zhi led his army out of Fushun Pass from the middle road, or Ye Wang bluffed his voice to surround the left wing of Zhenbei Pass, including the scout guard playing the role of Guangning Central Guard from Ji'an to Fushun Pass, they were actually covering the right-wing Guangning Central Guard from thousands of miles to thousands of miles.

Tie Xuan's purpose was to make the Jurchens think that the Guangning Central Guard had followed Zhu Zhi's middle army to the Fushun Pass to the northern expedition. But since the beginning of spring, the Guangning Central Guard had been secretly preparing for the expedition in Ji'an. He did not leave a step away.

On February 28, when Zhu Zhi led the middle army out of Fushun Pass, the right hook of Guangning Central Guard was officially launched. Chu Zhi and Katun led the army from Ji'an to the north and into the Changbai Mountains on the border between the Sino-Korea. Under the leadership of several Jurchen guides, they crossed the only one who could Caizan walk through the sheep intestine path between the mountains and the mountains, and arrived at the ancient Jurchen area of ​​the Jurchen area in Haixi (now Mudanjiang City).

Then he went west from here. He kept secretly sneaking to the city of Lalu Mansion.

After arriving at Lalu Mansion, the scouts approached the city gate at night. They attacked and entered the city gate at the moment when the Jurchens opened the city gate in the morning. The five thousand Jurchens who were guarding the city were caught off guard and were all wiped out.

So far, the Guangning Central Guards rushed for thousands of miles and surrounded the Jurchens' retreat. During this process, the entire army secretly operated across the mountains, which took thirteen days to collect several tribes of all sizes along the way.

The Jurchens did not expect that the Liaodong Army would cross the rare Changbai Mountains, and were completely kept in the dark by Zhu Zhi's deception operations on the southern line, and no soldiers were placed on the east road to defend.

Until the Guangning Central Guard entered the city, Mie Huyi had not woken up from the woman's arms, and he still didn't understand where the Liaodong army horses came out.

After occupying Lalu Mansion, Chu Zhi immediately released three carrier pigeons to report the situation, and ordered all the women, children and more than a hundred prisoners in the city to drive out of the city.
Chapter completed!