Chapter 706: Travel Insurance
When Gongsun Changming learned that Zhu Youzhen was gathering money and winning people's hearts, he played a casual chess move. In fact, there were not many ideas or plans for what to do in the future. But today, as Zhu Youzhen's plan was exposed step by step, the leisure chess move back then became extremely important.
Wuyi was willing to see the internal strife between Zhu family. In the past, Zhu Wen had the power with one hand and was united, and Wuyi had no chance to intervene. But when Zhu Wen took Chang'an and became emperor, he seemed to be satisfied all of a sudden, or the feeling of finally getting his wish made him no longer have the motivation to move forward. Without Zhu Wen's strong rule, the contradictions that had been covered up before finally began to take root and sprout bit by bit.
In particular, the three sons of the Zhu family's covetousness for that position has become the number one problem within Daliang.
It is certainly not in line with Wuyi's hopes that Zhu Youyu's family will dominate now. Since Zhu Youzhen has received the support of Jingxiang and Cao Xuan, then this guy has the ability to compete with Zhu Youyu, making Zhu Youzhen stronger and fighting for Zhu Youyu a little more bloody, which is naturally the most beneficial to Wuyi.
So whether it is Xu Xiang, Chen Fu or Tian Guofeng, at this stage, they must fight for Zhu Youzhen to make Zhu Youzhen truly powerful.
Of course, they also need to gain enough merit in this process, grow up, and gain more power, so as to be able to be fatal when needed in the future.
"I'll walk on the north slope, you'll walk on the west slope!" After tied up the hemp rope on his feet and tightened some equipment on his body, Chen Fu approached Tian Guofeng.
"The north slope is much harder to walk!" Tian Guofeng said.
"The road is harder to walk, but the corresponding enemy defense should be even weaker." Chen Fu waved his hand: "You and my brother, there is no need to fight for these."
The two of them stretched out their fists, touched each other for a while, and then led 500 people each, one to the north and the other to the west.
In this season, the north slope is undoubtedly the most difficult road to climb. There is not much snow on the flat ground, but the more you go up the mountain, the snow becomes thicker and thicker. This year's snow is not too heavy, but the wind is getting colder. The wind blows up floating snow and rages on the north slope. Under the floating snow, it is frozen hard and frozen snow.
The ground with ice was frozen, and the rocks were the biggest enemies of Chen Fu and others. In many places, there were bare ice cubes at their fingertips. At this moment, they could only carefully insert short swords into the ice and snow, the frozen soil, and then climb up little by little.
Three teams walked in the front. Whenever they crossed a dangerous place, they would carefully tie long hemp ropes to the roots of the rocks or above the large numbers, so that the climbers behind could climb up more easily.
Chen Fu felt that his hands were about to lose consciousness. For an archer, a pair of stable hands and a pair of keen hands were indispensable, but now, he could hardly feel his hands exist. He looked up at the top of the mountain, and it was pitch black, and he didn't know how far it was.
He gasped, leaned under a big tree, tied the rope, and threw it down, then inserted his hand under his armpit to keep warm.
"San Zheng, we have already climbed almost half of it. Next, let me get the way!" One person climbed to Chen Fu's side, sat down with him, and whispered. "At this speed, we should be able to reach the top of the mountain before dawn."
"The road above is harder to walk." Chen Fu whispered: "And we have to leave enough time to rest, otherwise how can we fight?"
"Too."
"I inform the other two teams that we must speed up." Chen Fu stood up and said, "We are now riding on the tiger's back. If we can't reach the predetermined position before dawn, it will be troublesome!"
"It's not a problem, it's our death period!" The man grinned and said with a smile: "Just place a team of archers above his head, it's enough to bury us all here."
"Since you know, why don't you hurry up and prepare for the trip!" Chen Fu chuckled, took out the hand with a hint of heat from his armpit, put it beside his mouth and breathed a few breaths. Then he took a roll of hemp rope from another soldier, carried it on his shoulder, and climbed forward.
At the foot of the mountain, in Zhu Youzhen's military camp and in the central army's tent.
Zhu Youzhen was half lying on a chair, squinting his eyes, and his fingers were rhythmically knocking on the armrests of the chair. When he started, Jiang Qi, Zhou Zhen and other generals sat where they were sitting in a regular manner.
They arrived at Dahuang Mountain at noon today. After setting up camp, Zhu Youzhen sent a force to launch a tentative attack on the mountain, but of course they were beaten to flee back.
At this time, Jiang Qi and all the generals also knew that an elite force was trying to climb Dahuang Mountain and launching a sneak attack.
"Your Highness, there is no movement at all!" Zhou Zhen said uneasy.
"The best news is not moving!" Jiang Qi, who has more combat experience, shook his head and said, "This shows that the enemies on the mountain have not discovered them yet. Every time they pass, they are closer to the target. The possibility of success is greater."
"Jiang Qi makes sense." Zhu Youzhen said: "The scheduled attack time is tomorrow at Fo Xiao, and before that, we will take the lead in launching the attack. Jiang Qi, your team has more experience in combat, so it will be the main attack. If Tian Guofeng and the others have not been discovered by the enemy at that time, then our attack will allow them to launch a fatal blow more hidden."
"As for your order!" Jiang Qi stood up and bowed.
Zhu Youzhen shook his arm and said, "I will not hide it from you. Liu Xuan on the other side of Kuishan has surrendered to me. In this battle, it is fake to fight Dahuang Mountain, and it is true to lure Pang Xun from Xuzhou City to come out to fight us."
Hearing this, except for Zhou Zhen who had known about it for a long time, the other generals, whether they surrendered to Guide or the newly reorganized troops in Tai'an, were all shocked and overjoyed.
"So everyone, after this battle, how did we take down Xuzhou City, and the whole of Wuning is ours. We really have a territory that belongs to us." Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath and jumped up from the chair: "You all followed me in the most difficult time. When the big thing is scheduled, Mr. Zhu will not forget your contribution."
"Abide by the king's order!" This time, the response in the tent was quite motivated.
"I understand that I will take down Dahuang Mountain first, then turn around to fight Pang Xun!" Zhu Youzhen said: "Whether you can succeed in one battle depends on whether you can win the target in the shortest time. Don't care about casualties and how many people die. In the future, I will make up for you better soldiers!"
"promise!"
"The third update of the camp is built to make rice, and the fourth update will start attacking!" Zhu Youzhen said sternly: "Don't be afraid that the mountain will know that we are going to attack them, and the formation will be larger. It is to let them know that we are going to start attacking."
"yes!"
Seeing the generals jumping out of the camp, the smile on Zhu Youzhen's face gradually disappeared.
Shi Hong behind her smiled and said, "The third prince's words made these people feel excited."
"I hope Zhou Qun can succeed!" Zhu Youzhen looked back at him and said, "If he fails, Pang Xun goes out to attack Cao Bin head-on, and Liu Xuan attacks from the flank again. Cao Bin has only a few thousand men, but it will be dangerous. I am gambling in this battle. If we win the bet, we will have a broad sky. If we fail, hehe, I'm afraid I will not even have the possibility of going back."
"Your Highness, even if there is any situation, the last general will protect you and kill you back." Shi Hong bowed.
"Once we lose this battle, Pang Xun dares not kill me, but there are others who must kill me soon." Zhu Youzhen narrowed his eyes.
Shi Hong said silently. He counted the time, but he was afraid that Gunhai had already dispatched troops and generals and was quietly heading into Wuning, preparing to launch a fatal blow to them.
"If this is not the case, I can slowly fight Wuning." A cruel look flashed in Zhu Youzhen's eyes: "Now I have to take risks. Once I pass this level, Dai Yue will not let you go."
Zhou Qun, who Zhu Youzhen had high expectations, was on Mount Kui and had a great chat with Liu Xuan.
"You are so brave, you dare to come to me." Liu Xuan smiled and poured a glass of wine for Zhou Qun, then held a piece of braised pork into his bowl, and said, "Shishou Jie gritted his teeth at you, saying that if you hadn't mislead the matter, how could he have harmed his 10,000 troops in Guide and his confidant general Lu Meng, saying that he had taken you and wanted to cut you into pieces!"
Zhou Qun sighed: "To be honest, who would have thought that such a thing would happen? Before we could react, we died and were captured. Thousands of troops were beaten to pieces. You said I was stabbed with my neck, and I would have to end my life if I die, or would I have to struggle?"
"Of course I have to struggle a little." Liu Xuan smiled and said, "Since you have arrived at me, don't go back. But if you want to persuade me to surrender, you don't have to speak up. You must know that the Third Highness will definitely lose this time."
"Old Liu, I can't see this. No matter how you look at it, Pang Shuai is at the end of his life." Zhou Qun said in a little puzzled manner.
"Old Liu, I'm going to tell you that it's absolutely impossible for the Third Highness to rush to take down Xuzhou City now, and Pang Shuai's reinforcements are about to arrive."
"Where did Pang Shuai come from reinforcements?"
"Reinforcements come from Gunhai!" Liu Xuan raised his glass and drank it himself: "Brother Zhou, do you understand this?"
Zhou Qun passed these words in his mind and looked at Liu Xuan and said, "Are you sure?"
"Of course! When Shiyue talked about this with Pang Shuai, I was there."
Chapter completed!