Chapter 16 The Dragon Enters the Sea
"The Golden Crow's order is sent! Idle people are waiting, give way!"
The fierce battle outside the city was in full swing, and the command to run around the city. Xu You predicted that after an accident in Ding County, due to serious shortage of troops and no one knows how many enemies they had infiltrated, Du Mingyu would temporarily mobilize a part of the navy from the East Gate to enter the city to assist in the quelling of the rebellion. This is also the only reserve force he can still mobilize. So when Wang Fu and the others attract a large number of pursuers, they escape from the back garden, and carefully wind up along the crisscrossing alley paths, and stop at a right-angle intersection.
This is the main road to the Dongmen Wharf. If there were indeed commanders to go to the Wharf as Xu You expected, they could only walk this way. The two were ambushed on the roof of the street and waited for about two quarters of an hour. A trooper in dark gold uniforms rode a horse and shouted military orders, and rushed by under their noses.
The next moment, An Yaoyou suddenly disappeared, and his body appeared quietly behind the commander's hand like a ghost. He stretched his fingers forward and gently crushed his throat. He then penetrated his arms and searched for it. Sure enough, he found a fish talisman for the troops to be used to mobilize the troops.
The whole process was completed in one go, just like a messenger who had practiced countless times with Anyao, playing a perfect piano song with no flaws or stagnation, and had a wonderful and unique beauty. It can be seen that Anyao was able to become a famous assassin in the world before.
He tied the reins with one hand, and when Xu You came down from the roof, he secretly pulled him up and threw the body into the grass on the side of the road. Before dawn, no one should have noticed it and left with his hooves.
The Jinwuwei whom the two pretended to be was originally Du Mingyu's guard team, and they also served as a commander in war. The two rode their horses and walked smoothly, unimpeded, without any doubt. Compared to An Yuxiu's murderous intent step by step, they were much more free and free.
When they arrived at the East Gate Wharf, they saw twenty or thirty various fighting ships vaguely cruising in the nearby waters. They should have noticed the abnormal movements in the city and sent about 200 naval troops to the ashore to wait for emergency changes.
Four soldiers walked out of the queue, held their waist knives, were ready to fight, and said loudly: "Comeone is dismounting!"
Wow!
The horse raised its head and neighed. An Yao and Xu You turned over and dismounted one after another. An Yao showed their signs and said, "According to the sacrificial order, General Qi's troops immediately gathered eastward and prepared to fight the Hudu Water Army!"
"What?"
The soldiers looked at each other in a hurry and checked the cards. Even the routine questions were omitted. They took Anyao and Xu You directly to one of the flagships. The leading general of the navy was named Qi Min. When he saw Anyao, he couldn't help laughing and said, "I remember you, I came to pass the order last time!"
Anyao said: "Yes, I've seen a general before the second half of the year." Xu You then realized that the reason why Anyao chose this person to pretend was not only because he was dull and taciturn, but also familiar with the navy at the dock. When he escaped, he could minimize the risk of being discovered.
"Get up, what happened in the city? Why are there fires everywhere? It's all messy!"
An Yao shook his head and said, "I came here to preach the order of sacrificial wine, I don't know anything else!"
Qi Min was not angry and smiled and said, "You are very strict in your mouth and don't like to talk too much. The same was true last time, so I remember you! OK, where is the fish talisman?"
Because An Shiyu was also known as An Shihu, the Chu State established a court, and the character "Hu" was named Hu. The tiger talisman was changed to a fish talisman. Anyone who mobilized more than 50 troops must have two to one. The Tianshi Army obviously continued this strategy of commanding the troops. Xu You handed over the fish talisman he had found, took the talisman standing beside him, turned around and handed it to Qi Min respectfully.
Qi Min held the fish talisman and did not rush to find it. He looked at Xu You casually and suddenly said, "This little brother has a very good face. When will he get into the Golden Crow Guard?"
Xu You said lightly: "I followed Senior Brother Qianye to do things elsewhere. I just returned to Qiantang with the priest wine not long ago. The general felt that it was natural to have sex."
Qianye was the young Taoist priest who followed Du Mingyu during the Qitang Lake Yaji. This time Xu You was captured, but he had never seen him. He must have other important tasks. So he took a risk and bet that Qi Min knew about Qianye, but he did not know about Qianye's specific whereabouts.
Of course, if Qianye has already died in battle, then all his previous efforts will be wasted. But sometimes all the mechanisms are done, and the rest can only bet on how good luck is.
Xu You once told He Ru that luck is on our side, but now, he still thinks so!
Qi Min looked at Xu You with dissatisfaction, and snorted heavily, and did not continue to pester the topic. He was not suspicious. There were more than a hundred Golden Crow Guards, and he had seen no more than half of them, and there were no more than ten people who could remember their faces. However, he asked casually, but he was robbed of white.
He took the other half of the fish talisman with a calm face, and combined it with a snap. The gold inscription on the fish ridge became clear, and it said, "The armored warrior talisman, the Heavenly Master is on the right, and the Dragon Lord is on the left." This is a fish talisman made specifically for the navy army. The Dragon King is the master of water, so it is called the Dragon Lord. At that time, the right was the supreme, and Sun Guan was really very generous, even the Dragon Lord had to surrender to the lower left.
"What do you say about Jijiu?"
Danyao said seriously: "The general ordered the wine to prepare for the war quickly. The Hudu navy army has defeated the pirates in Minghai and is about to advance westward to remove the siege of Qiantang. Our boat army immediately attacked, blocking the enemy halfway, showing its might in the rivers, and thus shocking the remaining enemies outside the city, and achieving complete victory!"
"Minghai Pirates were defeated?" Qi Min was shocked and said, "I only got the news a few days ago that Minghai Pirates set up a pirates in the Narcissus and burned down three tower ships of the Hudu Shui Army in one battle. It was a great victory. Why was he defeated now?"
Xu You said coldly: "The general has been through the battlefield for a long time, but don't he know the reason why the war changes rapidly? The battle of Narcissus Dang is the trick of the opponent to defeat the arrogant enemy. The pirates in Minghai thought that the Hudu Shui Army was just like this, underestimating the enemy and advancing rashly, but instead got ambushed and suffered heavy losses."
"It's possible..."
It is of great importance, and Qi Min doesn't care about Xu You's attitude. Moreover, Jinwuwei is mostly arrogant and rude person like him. Most generals who are commanding the army outside have suffered such cowardice.
After walking back and forth for two steps, he stopped and asked, "Is the news reliable?"
"There is a source of information for the priest. If the general doesn't believe it, he can send someone to the city to ask the priest. However, I have said a lot. Tonight, a martial arts master has been in trouble and willful fire to disrupt our military morale. The priest is in a bad mood, and the military order is clear, and the general is ordered to set off immediately and not delay it!"
"Then, here at the East Gate?"
"There will be five hundred troops to take over the defense of the East Gate later, but the fierce battle in the west and north is in a hurry, and there is no way to pull out the manpower for a while... The general does not have to worry. The soldiers of the prefectures are tightly held under the city wall and have no strength to covet the East Gate. Besides, they do not have boats, even if they know that the East Gate is empty, they will not be able to fly over with wings!
Thinking of the strict military law of the Tianshi Dao, Xu You made every sentence of reason. Qi Min no longer hesitated and said, "Please report to the sacrificial tribute. I will go to war until I will destroy the Hudu water army!"
Because it was during the war, the ships always had enough food and fresh water for more than ten days to eat, and no longer needed supplies, and they could sail immediately. Xu You and An Yao stood on the shore, looked at the sailing sail, looked at each other, and laughed at the same time. They didn't expect things to go so smoothly, but Du Mingyu would not have long noticed the abnormal movement of the navy, and Qi Min would also find his grandmother's fool.
When will you not leave now?
An Yao squatted by the dock, making a strange cry from his mouth. The frequency was not high, but layers of ripples appeared on the water. Five breaths later, a wet head appeared in the water not far away, and grinned at Xu You, "Master Huang, it's like three autumns after not seeing you for a day..."
"Stop talking nonsense, where is the water dragon incense?"
Jingzhe threw out two water dragon guides, and Xu Youhe Anyao slid into the water, his mouth and nose were pressed against the curved straw of the water dragon guide, and his head was about an inch above the water surface, and he quietly left the dock.
The dragon enters the sea, the tiger runs on the mountain,
Xu You was very rare to take off, his whole body was light, and the cold waterway in front of him was like a fairyland!
After swimming upstream for more than ten miles, the three of them landed in a secluded place. An Yao and Jingzhe meant that they should have reunited with Zuo Qi who was waiting in front, and then rushed to Wuxian immediately, but Xu You insisted on returning to the military camp of Fuzhou.
He still couldn't let go of Su Tang!
This has nothing to do with love, it is just a little bit of good thoughts about the weak in troubled times!
"Reported that someone outside the camp called himself Xu You in Qiantang and wanted to meet the military commander and offer a plan to break the city!"
"Xu You?" Qiu Yuan was overjoyed and said, "Hurry and invite me!"
Tonight, the soldiers of the Prefecture and Prefecture siege without regard to casualties was one of the goals of the battle between the inside and the outside to create opportunities for the rescue of An Yuxiu and Xu You. An Yuxiu has been successfully rescued and was guarded by the elites of the 300 soldiers of the Prefecture and Prefecture and many martial arts masters to Wu County. Xu You fell into the sea and completely lost his trust.
"You are Xu You?"
In order to prevent assassination, Xu You and An Yao were tied up with their hands and held into the military tent. Xu You said loudly: "In Xiaqiantang Xu You, pay homage to the military commander!"
Qiu Yuan looked at him intently and said, "How did you escape?"
"How to escape from the thief's hand is a long story. But I'm here not to chat, but to offer advice. If the military commander wants to break the city, it's a good opportunity now!"
The battle ahead was too tragic. The North City changed hands several times, and the corpses piled up under the corners of the wall were several meters high, but the head of the city was still firmly in the hands of the Tianshi Army. The South City has not even encountered the city wall until now. The morale of the troops is sluggish and they don’t know when they will collapse. Qiu Yuan has only 3,000 soldiers left, and hesitant to press them all up. If they win, they will naturally be happy. But if they are defeated, they will undoubtedly be foolish to organize a large-scale attack.
Xu You's words gave Qiu Yuan more choices, and he didn't bother to ask anything else, and said, "Please tell me frankly!"
"I pretended to be Du Mingyu's Jinwu Guard and falsely passed military orders to transfer the naval army stationed at the Dongmen Wharf to Hudu. The military commander only needs five hundred elite soldiers and landed in a boat from the East Gate. He caught the bandits off guard, and then attacked inside and outside, and Qiantang would be broken!"
Before Qiu Yuan could answer, a chief clerk standing behind him rebuked: "A lot of nonsense. If you are really Xu You, you are trapped in thieves for many days, how can you pretend to be Jinwu Guard? Even if Qi Min was blind and did not recognize you, you would always recognize Du Mingyu's fish talisman. Without the fish talisman, how could you follow the orders to mobilize your troops? Military commander, this person must have done it carefully and deliberately lured our army into the ambush. If I expected it, there would be no ship or person at the Dongmen Pier at this time, but I don't know how many ambush troops were buried in the dark..."
This chief clerk is not stupid, and all the doubts are on the point, but Xu You can't say that Danyao has the Qing Guilu, which is a lucky deed, can deceive anyone's eyes, and he also has a magical mask that can easily look like a person, but if he doesn't explain these clearly, he can't win the trust of others.
This is a vicious cycle!
"Military Commander, although Qiantang City is not tall, the bandits have been operating for many days, and they have sufficient weapons and food. Du Mingyu and Liu Yu are all the best among the people. They are proficient in combat formations and are cunning. They use their lives to fight and are not afraid of death. Without a hundred thousand divisions, it is really difficult to go all the way."
Xu You tried his best to persuade: "If the military commander leads the Hu Ben army, if he fights in the wild, he can do his best to wipe out the bandits without any loss. However, the military strategy says that the attack of the city is not a last resort, and the attack of the city is the most undesirable. Now the two armies are in a stalemate, and it is difficult to separate the Xuanzhu. The longer it delays, the more unfavorable it is for the military commander. It is better to take risks and attack the East Gate without preparation, and major events can be accomplished!"
The chief clerk sneered: "My husband is so calculating! Take a step back and say, I believe you, but have you ever thought about how our army has no big ships to cross the rapids of Qiantang River and attack the East Gate without any preparation? Even if the ship is built now and when it is ready, the water at the East Gate will be dried up!"
"This problem is easy to solve. When I came here, I saw countless green bamboos and tree trunks piled up in the camp. The group who was looking for water took off their armor, wore only a calf's nose, and floated on it with a long knife on it. In just a dozen miles, they could reach the East Gate Wharf of Qiantang."
This is indeed a feasible strategy, but it is too risky, especially Xu You's identity is not yet confirmed, and it is difficult to believe his words. Qiu Yuan suddenly discovered that after listening to Xu You's advice, not only did he not solve the previous problems, but he added new trouble.
The harm of using troops is the greatest hesitation; the disaster of the three armies is caused by doubts!
Qiu Yuan was a powerful general, but not a good general. This time, he led his troops to quell the rebellion. From the emperor to the ministers, from Jinling to various prefectures and counties, he was under too much pressure and responsibility, so he did not dare to bet all his chips at once, because he lost, he would not have a chance to start over again. But his cautiousness also made the opportunity of warfare fleeting. Xu You was about to persuade him again, Qiu Yuan waved his hand and said impatiently: "I will send a scout to the East Gate to inquire. If it is really as Langjun said, we will discuss it again! The person who came, took good care of Xu Langjun, gave him food and hot wine, and continued to instruct him that no one should be rude to Langjun!"
It would be too late to discuss it again!
The navy's large-scale mobilization was too long, but Du Mingyu had been hidden for too long. Perhaps he had already received the news now, and it was possible to send someone to chase Qi Min. Xu You sighed and bowed to Qiu Yuan. He left his fate with all his powers. He could only do this. At this moment, Zuo Qi and Shanzong entered the military tent after being informed. Zuo Qi and Qiu Yuan had met before and confirmed Xu You's identity. Qiu Yuan personally untied the rope of his hand binding and smiled: "Before the princess left, he specially sent an oral order to find Weizhi's whereabouts. Now, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief to the princess! There are also General Zhu Zhonglang, Gu Fujun, and Meng Jiaozuo have also asked about your safety many times. Weizhi can have the care of all nobles, and he should be loyal to the country in the future and live up to the grace!"
"Abide by the military commander's teachings!"
Qiu Yuan smiled and gave Xu You a tent with a very proud face, but Xu You's heart was as cold as snow.
He knew that the goddess of luck was not on his side this time!
Chapter completed!