Astral Apostle Chapter 258: Changes

  Chapter 259 Changes

  delivered a message on behalf of the imperial court, Cao Sheng waited for several days, and was finally summoned by Fan Zong in private again.

  Fan Zong's attitude is quite warm this time, so Cao Sheng is invited to take a seat.

  He exchanged a few words, then talked about the topic, solemnly said:

  "The traitor Chen gathered a crowd to rebel. I was just coerced, but I didn't have the intention of rebelling. I wanted to abandon the dark and turn to the bright. Now that the court thinks highly of it, I am willing to be recruited and serve as an internal response for the officers and soldiers."

  Cao Sheng was overjoyed when he heard the words: "The traitor Chen raised the flag of rebellion and went against the law, and he will fail sooner or later. Brother Fan is a wise choice!"

  Fan Zong interrupted with a wave of his hand, and continued:

  "However, now that traitor Chen is powerful, I can't compete with him. This internal response is not easy to do. If the news leaks, he will die without a place to bury him. I can only fight for the officers and soldiers here. Open the door of convenience, when the imperial court wins this place and drives straight in, I will not be able to return to the Dragon King Village, and I must be allowed to retreat to the rear instead of fighting on the front line."

  "I can't decide this matter, I have to report back to the court."

  Cao Sheng replied quickly, he was not afraid of bargaining, anyway, he was not the one who made the final decision.

  Fan Zong nodded and said in a deep voice:

  "Although the old saying goes, those who know the current affairs are heroes, and the thief Chen is very powerful. If I betray him, I will definitely incur revenge. Allegiance to the Son of Heaven, helping the country, blood is hard to cool... I am sworn to death with the rebels!"

  "Okay! Big brother is loyal to the country, distinguishes right from wrong, and is really a first-class husband!"

  Cao Sheng agrees and praises, and flatters him.

  The two chatted for a while before Cao Sheng left excitedly.

  ……

   Not many days later, Fan Zong received a reply from the officers and soldiers, expressing his acceptance of his conditions, and the payment was made by Cheng Liqing, the commander of the imperial army.

  Next, Fan Zong and Cheng Liqing, through the intermediary Cao Sheng, kept exchanging letters, plotting internally and externally to conquer this pass.

  In order to avoid being seen by others, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court feinted to attack the pass from time to time, forming a stalemate.

  Days passed by, and finally came the day of the conspiracy agreement.

  According to the agreement, Fan Zong needs to send his subordinates to open the gate on this night, control the gate, welcome the officers and soldiers to enter, and occupy this pass.

  Things were going well, the officers and soldiers approached quietly in the dark of night, Fan Zong got the signal, he attacked from within, seized the pass, opened the door to welcome the officers and soldiers, the pass was quickly lost, causing chaos.

  When Cheng Liqing led his troops into the pass, he saw that the battle was over and the officers and soldiers completely controlled the pass.

  He was quite satisfied in his heart, and he was very proud of his strategy.

   "I will use a little plan to take this place without bloodshed. Hehe, the bandits in the Dragon King Village, in my opinion, are only Chen Thief. The rest of them are a bunch of mud legs. The native chicken and tile dog are mentally retarded, clumsy and clumsy."

  Cheng Liqing smiled at the adjutant.

  As a pacifier dispatched by the imperial court, he despises these reckless people from the bottom of his heart. He consciously knows the art of war, is brave and good at fighting, and has a good education.

  At this time, Fan Zong came in a hurry to report his urgent situation:

  "General Cheng, there was a little accident. Seeing that the situation is not good, Fang Zhen, the chief general of this pass, has already abandoned the pass and fled with a group of leaders and personal soldiers. We failed to capture this person."

  Cheng Liqing frowned: "This person reacts quickly."

   Fan Zong said: "General, this Fang is really the sixth head of the Shanzhai, with good skills, and he is also the sworn brother of that Chen thief. If he is caught, he will definitely be able to threaten Chen thief, and he cannot just escape like this. .”

  "Well, it makes sense, I understand that this bandit can't run very far, it's better to take advantage of the victory to pursue... Hurry up and gather troops, leave a large army here to guard the pass, and the rest will follow me to chase the leader of the bandit! "

  Cheng Liqing took it seriously and ordered it immediately.

   Soon, he led thousands of soldiers and horses out of the pass, followed the scattered footprints on the road, and chased the enemy who had abandoned the pass and fled.

  A group of people covered in moonlight, chased all the way, turned to the rugged trail along the footprints, and finally found a group of defeated bandits in front of a forest.

   "Ha, stop the bandits!"

  Cheng Liqing was overjoyed and ordered the soldiers to kill the generals.

  The faces of the bandits changed drastically, and they went into the woods, fleeing in a panic.

  Seeing this scene, Cheng Liqing didn't care about meeting Lin Mojin, he called his soldiers and horses into the forest to pursue him, all he wanted was to capture the leader of the bandit army.

  However, after chasing in the woods for a while, the officers and soldiers were always hung behind, gradually getting separated, and Cheng Liqing felt that something was wrong.

  "No, I'm afraid there is fraud!"

  Cheng Liqing's eyelids twitched and he woke up suddenly, and he was about to order the whole army to gather and withdraw.

  But at this moment, shouts of killing suddenly erupted in the forest one after another.

   "Go!"

  Large groups of bandits emerged from the soil, surrounded and killed them from all directions, and immediately caught the officers and soldiers by surprise.

  "Hahaha, the officials and thieves are under attack, sons, follow me to kill!"

  Fang Zhen burst out of the ground, laughing endlessly, and brazenly rushed into the crowd of officers and soldiers with a copper-headed stick, each stick can knock down several enemy soldiers.

  After two years of practicing advanced martial arts, his martial arts has also made great progress. Calculated according to the percentage system, it has probably risen from 88 to about 93, and he has initially entered the ranks of top masters.

  "Not good, I fell for it!"

  Cheng Liqing was horrified, and quickly turned back with his own soldiers. After a **** battle, he finally broke out of the encirclement and fled.

  He ran out of the woods with great difficulty. There were only two or three hundred of the thousands of people around him, and the rest were all trapped in an ambush.

  Cheng Liqing didn't care about anything else, and ran wildly with the remnants of the soldiers, returning to the pass by the same route, returning to the main force.

  However, when they approached the pass, they were surprised to find that the pass was full of flames, screams, and the smell of burning.

  The officers and soldiers who were supposed to guard the pass were all missing.

  "Oops, the pass has changed, and the way back is broken!"

  Cheng Liqing turned pale with shock.

  Before he could react, shouts of killing suddenly exploded on both sides of the road.

   "Kill!"

  It turns out that there have been copycat minions ambushing here, far more numerous than this group of remnants, and they rushed forward.

  Cheng Liqing was frightened and angry, and holding an iron spine gun, he tried his best to kill several minions, but in the end he was outnumbered and was pinned to the ground and tied up.

  ……

  The fire in the pass burned for a whole night, almost completely destroying the place.

  The corpses of officers and soldiers were layered on top of each other, sticking together, most of them were burned to death and choked to death.

  However, this is a military fortress, and there are no residential buildings around, but it has never affected the villagers.

  Until then, the cottage soldiers and horses hiding in all directions returned to the pass to clean up the battlefield.

  On the other side, Minor escorted Cheng Liqing, who had disheveled hair, into the temporary tent.

  Entering the military tent, Cheng Liqing raised his eyes and saw Fang Zhen, Fan Zong and others guarding the gate all present, his eyes turned red immediately, and he didn't know that he had been tricked.

  "Fan Zong! You son of a bitch, it turned out to be a false surrender!"

  Cheng Liqing lost his composure and roared angrily, struggling desperately.

  Fan Zong heard this and sneered:

   "Soldiers never tire of cheating, your skills are not as good as others, what can I say? I have devoted myself to the green forest for decades, how could I turn to the court just because of your few words? You are also caught in this trick, who can be blamed? Chen Zhaizhu is like a heavenly man Character, I will seek refuge in the imperial court only when I lose my mind!"

  At that time, when Fan Zong received the oral letter from the imperial court to persuade him to surrender, Fan Zong had a plan, and that was to use his tactics.

  Actually, if the situation is normal, Fan Zong does not reject recruiting.

  However, in the current war situation, the imperial court was obviously at a disadvantage, and was beaten out of breath by the head of his own village. What's more, Chen Feng's bravery is shocking to the world, he is a hero in the world, if he betrays this man, he will have no way to heaven or earth.

  With these two factors, I still "abandon the dark and turn to the bright", isn't that the birthday star eats arsenic?

  Although Fan Zong is not very successful in Dragon King Village, he doesn't intend to seek death, so he might as well take this opportunity to make meritorious service and show his loyalty.

  So he already knew how to choose.

  However, Fan Zong only reported the situation, and the specific strategy was not formulated by him, nor was Fang Zhen, a reckless man, who came up with it.

  After the incident was reported, Duan Yunfeng, the third master, came to secretly support him.

  Duan Yunfeng roughly judged the nature of the enemy general based on the letters Fan Zong presented, and formulated a special strategy.

  Introduce the king into the urn, take fire attack!

   Falsely defeating Kaesong, using this place as a bait to lure the imperial soldiers and horses in, while the bandit soldiers lurk in the tunnel, wait for the trap door to set fire to the camp, wipe out the enemy army, and try not to leave a single one alive.

  Duan Yunfeng didn't even bat an eyelid when setting up such a poisonous plan to burn tens of thousands of officers and soldiers to death.

  Finally, the plan was successful, and the effect was remarkable.

  The threat of the court soldiers and horses along the way has been resolved in one battle, so there is no need to worry about someone endangering the backyard of the Dragon King Village.

  At this time, Duan Yunfeng was sitting on the head of the military tent, staring at Cheng Liqing coldly, and slowly said:

  "The general of the defeated army dares to be arrogant, come in, push out and behead him, and hang his head on the flag. There is no need to leave his whole body for this kind of guy."

  The voice fell, and the soldiers immediately pushed Cheng Liqing out.

   Soon, there was a short scream outside, which stopped abruptly.

  Fang Zhen withdrew his gaze and said with a smile, "Brother Duan is really good at both civil and martial arts. If he succeeds in one plan, he should make the first contribution in this battle."

   "It's nothing to calculate the difference."

  Duan Yunfeng waved his hand, not taking credit for it.

  He paused, narrowed his eyes and said:

  "The victory in this battle can be regarded as a solution to the danger behind the village. Now the village owner is wandering outside with soldiers and horses, harassing the officers and soldiers, making the enemy overwhelmed, but we can't rely on the village owner alone to support the war...

  Brother Fang, you captured thousands of officers and soldiers last night, I have a plan, choose a group of copycat elites to put on officers and soldiers' clothes, and go to the nearby officer and soldier fortress. The one surnamed Cheng ruined the main force in this direction, and it was time for me to expand the results of the battle. "

  Fang Zhen's eyes lit up: "I think it's okay, let's do it!"

  He is not a smart person who likes to use his brain, but Duan Yunfeng is a ruthless and quick-witted person, and he doesn't mind listening to the other party's orders.

  ……

  The imperial army attacked Longwang Village in several ways. Under Duan Yunfeng's plan, the army in one direction was seriously injured.

  The whole body is mobilized by the battle situation, and the siege along the way is missing. The pressure on Longwangzhai is reduced, and the situation is getting better and better, gaining the upper hand with the momentum of snowballing.

  Ma Zhen received the battle report and was so angry that he drew his sword to kill the case.

  Although he is the commander-in-chief of the three armies, due to the limited efficiency of information transmission, most of the time he has to rely on the other generals of the army to perform on their own, and cannot micro-manage the front line at any time... although he really wants to do so.

  "Cheng Liqing! An incompetent person who underestimates the enemy and advances so aggressively will ruin our overall situation!"

  Ma Zhen was very annoyed.

  Yu Wenyan frowned: "Commander calm down, since the end is done, we can only make amends."

  At this time, there were only three top decision-makers in the account, Ma Zhen, Huang Ping, and Yu Wenyan, and it was just a small private meeting.

  Ma Zhen exhaled, calmed down, sat down again, and said in a deep voice:

  "The situation is not good for us. The Longwangzhai has broken the siege on one side and it is difficult to block it again. The Chen thief is constantly attacking outside. The decline of our imperial army is already evident. If we want to delay this winter, I am afraid that we will have to pay for it." Tragic casualties, and the effect is not great."

   "The commander-in-chief means..." Yu Wenyan probed.

  A cold light flashed in Ma Zhen's eyes:

   "Continuing to fight for a long time will only increase the casualties, and the chances of winning are quite slim. Although the delay will inevitably benefit privately, but the imperial court sent us to conquer. If the casualties are too large, it will not be easy to deal with... Since this battle is not over, It's better to preserve the vitality for the court."

  He is still somewhat different from Pang Hong. After becoming Yiguo Duke, if the country is unstable, the family will suffer even more, so it is inevitable to think more.

  After finishing speaking, Ma Zhen turned his head to look at Huang Ping, and said coldly:

  "Since we are going to withdraw our troops ~IndoMTL.com~ naturally we can't return empty-handed, we have to give Chen Thief a big gift, and you will carry out the plan that you said at the beginning. If it succeeds, even if Chen Thief wins This battle has not been slowed down for a few years, which means that it will slow down the pace of this gang of giants in disguise and give the court a few years of respite, and it will still be a great achievement after returning to Beijing!"

  Hearing this, Yu Wenyan couldn't bear it.

  It seems that the commander-in-chief has made up his mind, and in the end he will use the plan of breaking the embankment and flooding to turn Huyang into a country of thousands of miles.

   Once this plan is made, it is equivalent to treating the whole of Huyang as an abandoned son, in vain for the common people, just to severely injure Chen Feng and his group.

  But then again... the rebels want to overthrow our Daxia country, but they are enemies of life and death.

  As long as the final result is effective, it is acceptable for the emperor and the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty to pay such a price in order to maintain the stability of the country.

  After all... If there is no country, what use is the common people?

  Yu Wenyan sighed secretly.

  Although he still has some conscience left, as a noble class with vested interests, he will naturally not object to this decision, and he slowly nodded in acquiescence.

  (end of this chapter)