A group of soldiers in front of the Tiande Army's Hou Mansion were busy placing the Spurs. Eighth     1st Chinese New Year★Wen.com

On the street, soldiers patrol the city camp rode high-headed horses and rushed around, suppressing the people who refused to listen to the persuasion and insisted on fleeing outside the city. The news of Dong Bazheng leading his army to attack the city spread wildly, and rumors spread everywhere in Feng'an City. The most vicious rumor was that Zeng Chongyang was a eunuch after the Tiande Army stayed, and occupied Feng'an to collude with the Uighurs to go south to capture Chang'an and destroy the Tang Dynasty.

A day ago, Han Sui led a unit of Tiande Right Army to guard Jiuniang Pass to guard against the enemy coming from the east. In the face of a disaster, Zeng Chongyang sang an empty city plan with his usual poetic mind. Feng'an's true city became an empty city. Apart from the 600 patrol camp and the 500 guards he left behind in the mansion, only a thousand newly recruited recruits were left. Zeng Chongyang stood on the stone steps in front of the study and looked at the setting sun, with thousands of thoughts blocking his chest.

The news that Dong Bazheng traveled through Ku Jiesha suddenly appeared in Henan. He just got it not long ago. There were only one thousand defenders in the 18 villages in Henan. The commander Liu Xi was a mediocre person who relied on nepotism. It was a dream to expect him to block the famous Hedong general Dong Bazheng. Zeng Chongyang’s biggest expectation now is that Liu Xi should not retreat too quickly. Even if he resisted a little, as long as he delayed, things might turn around. For example, Dong Bazheng was unacceptable to illness, or Wang Qian and Zhenwu Army retreated in internal strife, or...

Thinking of this, a wry smile appeared on Zeng Chongyang's face.

"Master General." Cao Feng pushed open the corner gate and rushed in. The four soldiers behind him were carrying a stretcher. On the stretcher was a woman covered in blood and dying.

"It's Wan'er!" Zeng Chongyang felt nervous and hurried over.

"Why is it so hurt?" Zeng Chongyang felt heartbroken and couldn't help but feel sad.

"?Liu Yifeng rebelled. Wan'er came back to report the conspiracy and was chased by Liu Xi all the way to the riverside. It was the river patrol soldiers who saved her."

"Reverse?!" Zeng Chongyang's hand that had just reached out was burnt by a soldering iron, hurriedly shrank back. His face turned pale and blue, both shocked and regretful, and a little embarrassment. Wan'er was his favorite singer. In order to win people's hearts, he wanted to give Wan'er to Liu Xi. Cao Feng advised him that Liu Xi and Liu Yifeng were together with their brother-in-law and would not come close because of a singer. It would be useless to give Wan'er to him.

Zeng Chongyang did not listen to Cao Feng's advice. In addition to winning people's hearts, he gave Wan'er to Liu Xi two other intentions: to act as an eye and to discord Liu's uncle and nephew. It seems that none of these three things have been achieved, but instead, it has given Wan'er's life in vain.

"Liu Xi dares to pursue her openly, which proves that Liu Yifeng has made up his mind. The general should not hesitate anymore, please make a decision early."

"Summon Liu Yifeng to see me immediately."

"I will go there in person."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

"Report—"

Before Cao Feng could set off, the primary school hurriedly reported: "The North Gate Guardian Chang Qiuhua opened the city gate and led a group of people into the city."

"What, what?!" Zeng Chongyang was cold all over when he heard this. If Cao Feng hadn't been quick to hold him up in time, he would have been afraid that he would have fallen to the ground.

"What to do? What to do?" Zeng Chongyang asked Cao Feng in dismay.

Cao Feng was about to answer, and there was another chaos outside the mansion. The guards of the governor's mansion were driven to retreat to the inner courtyard. Cao Feng drew his sword and shouted, "No retreat! Push it out!"

"Can't hold it anymore, go quickly-" Zeng Chongyang hurriedly ran to the inner room, and there was a secret passage leading to the outside of the city in his study.

"As a grandfather, is there anyone who escaped like this?"

A group of murderous iron-armored guards rushed out of the study room, surrounded Zeng Chongyang and Cao Feng and others with hundreds of soldiers who broke in from the gate. Yang Hao accompanied an iron-faced man to come out of the secret passage in the study room. The secret passage was provided by Liu Yifeng. Zeng Chongyang strictly kept it secret when he built the secret passage, but Liu Yifeng inferred the approximate location of the secret passage from the account he handled.

"It turns out that it is Duke Wu, and the subordinates are in absent-minded manner, and they are rude." Zeng Chongyang calmed down after being scolded by the iron-faced man. He broke away from Cao Feng's hand and tidied up his clothes, and immediately became the style of a master Liu Hou.

"After staying for a few months, what do Mr. Zeng feels at this moment?" The iron-faced man's eyes were very sharp.

"Terrified, like walking on thin ice, like facing the abyss."

"Trembling, walking on thin ice? Humph, I think you shouldn't have gotten on this ice at all."

"Hmph, Mr. Wu said this too much." Zeng Chongyang's face mask Han Shuang, "Whether I come here or not is not your final word."

"Hahaha" The iron-faced man laughed up and pointed at Cao Feng and said, "The chief general manager has an order and will immediately take Zeng Chongyang back to Beijing to report his order. If he does not obey the order, he will be executed on the spot."

Zeng Chongyang's face changed drastically when he heard this, pointed at the iron-faced man and screamed: "Wu Ming! You have left the camp, and it's not your turn to take care of Yamato Club!"

"Please wear a sword and set off immediately." Cao Feng said coldly. The guards of the governor's mansion were immediately divided into two factions, one was holding Zeng Chongyang, and the other was following Cao Feng, and he drew his sword and looked at each other with angrily.

Yang Hao shouted: "Yang Hao, the judge of the De Army in Xiatian, will be ordered to temporarily take charge of the military and political affairs of Feng'an. Zeng Chongyang is already in a position to be punished, so you should not be obsessed with it anymore."

After hearing this, the guards loyal to Zeng Chongyang lost their morale and they lost their weapons and let them aside. Cao Feng forced Zeng Chongyang to go to the side and said, "Please don't make things difficult for you."

Zeng Chongyang pointed at Yang Hao and Wu Ming with his hand and said viciously: "I remember this account, let's take a look."

Wu Ming took off his mask, looked at Zeng Chongyang's back as he was leaving, and shook his head with a wry smile: "It's really a corrupt scholar who ruined the country."

Yang Hao asked anxiously: "What should I do now?"

Wu Ming shouted, "What's the matter? Don't Dong Bazheng have not entered the door yet?" Before he finished speaking, two people laughed in, one was Tang Hu and the other was Tan Kong. Yang Hao hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down. Tang Hu laughed and said, "Since ancient times, officials did not kneel down to the people. You are now an official, and we both are common people now."

Yang Hao said: "To save the students, the two mentors, who lost their official position and gave up their titles, how can they repay this kindness?"

Tang Hu said: "Then you should be more successful and add more glory to our faces."

Wu Ming said: "When the troops are at the city, you still have nonsense, come in quickly."

The attendants hung up a huge topographic map of the Tiande Army, with the towns, military camps, rivers and mountains above them clearly drawn. Tang Hu waved his hand in disgust and said, "What picture is seen? Dong Bazheng never looks at the picture. This battle cannot be won without a strange plan."

Tan Kongxiao asked: "Then have you thought of a plan to defeat the enemy?"

Tang Hu sighed and shook his head: "There are only two people who can be called good generals in the world: Shen Ce Jun Wen Shimao, and Dong Bazhong from Hedong. Although this old man Dong has an annoying donkey temper, he is an expert in war. If I hadn't been afraid of him twenty years ago, I would have lost my hands and brains for twenty years."

Tang Hu shook his head and sighed repeatedly, and taught Yang Hao a lesson: "You said that you don't have the same soldiers as you, you are confused and waiting to die, without fighting spirit, just live by and expect them to do whatever they can do."

"Okay, don't complain. If there are millions of soldiers, you and I don't need to come here." Wu Ming interrupted Tang Hu. Tan Kong patted Tang Hu's shoulder and smiled: "If you win, you will make a name for the world, add icing on the cake. If you lose, let him Yang Hao take the blame, and you will not lose your reputation." Tan Kong looked at Yang Hao and laughed: "You can definitely lose this business."

Yang Hao replied: "The student is still young and can afford to lose."

Wu Ming raised his face and shouted: "No one can afford to lose! This battle is only allowed to win but not lose."

...

Liu Xi looked up at Dong Bazheng, who was sitting upright on the tiger-skin seat that originally belonged to him, and had another plan in his mind.

"Liu Xi has something to report to the veteran general."

"If you have something to say, don't hesitate." Dong Bazheng carefully examined the Feng'an City Defense Map presented by Liu Xi, and answered impatiently. He muttered in his heart: Why is he so patient with this servile traitor who is so servile and charming, and he has lost his head even if he is usually a hundred Liu Xi.

"There is a wall about thirty feet long in the west of Feng'an City, which has collapsed." Liu Xi said carefully and wanted to make things simpler, but when he became nervous, he said it even more chaotic.

Dong Bazheng did not answer, and seemed to have not heard at all. Liu Xi swallowed secretly and raised his head quietly.

"Dog god thing!" Dong Bacheng suddenly punched the table heavily, and the guards at the door swarmed in. Liu Xi was so scared that he was scattered and kowtowed repeatedly.

Dong Bazheng was not scolding Liu Xi. In his eyes, people like Liu Xi were not worthy of scolding himself. He was scolding the person who was in charge of designing Feng'an's defense. If this person was not a spy from the enemy country, he would be an idiot. Feng'an was surrounded by mountains and water, and the terrain was easy to defend and difficult to attack. The only gap was a sandy land near the water in the southwest of the city. It was easily occupied by the enemy troops crossing the river and became a springboard for siege. Blocking this gap was actually very simple. Just set a few camps along the river, station hundreds of archers, and cause serious damage to the enemy when the enemy crossed the river, and then use cavalry to rush to the shore with shields. Hundreds of people can ensure Feng's safety!

But the man who designed Feng'an defense was inconsistent. He built a muddle of earth wall and a trench on the sandy land in the south of the city, then strengthened and raised the south wall, and then sealed the south gate. After doing this, he only left dozens of river patrol soldiers to guard the south of the city and concentrated the main force in the east of the city.

Although there is an open space outside the east gate, there is Jiuniang Pass in front as the gateway, there are small hills and dense forests as barriers in the north, and the river beach on the south is a wetland covered with reeds and weeds, which is not suitable for large-scale battles. Such a terrain seems empty and helpless, but it is the safest. It was originally an iron bucket city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but someone turned into a basket of willow woven - full of caves.

"Who presided over the city's defense."

"It's Governor Zeng."

"Zeng Chongyang? Isn't it Han Sui?"

"Zeng Chongyang said that General Han had only been a lieutenant before, and it was okay to defend a town and a city as big as Feng'an. He couldn't. Feng'an's defense was formulated by Zeng Chongyang himself. After it was completed, he called us all. He taught us to study and went to work hard for three days."

"It's really a corrupt scholar who ruined the country." Dong Bacheng knocked on the table heavily and suddenly asked Liu Xi: "What did you say just now?"

"...There is a section of the city wall in the west. It collapsed before and was repaired later. However, the cracks on both sides are very large and grouting into it every year, but the cracks cannot be sealed."

"Oh," Dong Bacheng was shocked when he heard this and quickly lowered his head to check the map.

Liu Xi plucked up with courage and pointed to a section of the city wall in the west and said, "It's this section."

Dong Bacheng nodded and said, "Liu Yifeng is traitorous. I should have chopped down your head and returned it to him."

"General, please spare me!" Liu Xi shouted like a pig.

Dong Bazheng glared at him in disgust and changed his tone: "I think you sincerely help me to quell the rebellion, spare your life for the time being, and stay in front of the army and make meritorious service."

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Chapter completed!