When he first woke up in this era, Lu Yao often looked up to the so-called big people who seemed to be in the clouds, and was full of awe for the names that stirred up the world and even left them in the history records. Perhaps, it is due to the background of ordinary people who lack self-confidence; Or perhaps it stems from a sense of powerlessness in the face of the surging tide of history.

However, when this awe collided with the powerful belief in Lu Yao's heart, it quickly disappeared. What followed was the ambition of "he can take his place", and the ambition of "a man is as hard as iron, watching the test hand, and mending the cracks in the sky".

It was under the impetus of such ambition that Lu Yao moved forward bravely, fighting his way out of the decisive confrontation with countless jackals and tigers. Along the way, Jinyang fought against the Huns, Yecheng fought against the evil Kou, Daijun Ping Zhuhu, and defeated Xianbei on the dam...... The remnants of the former Eastern Wu and the small military masters of Bingzhou have defeated many so-called big shots, and on the blood and bones of the losers, they have established the prestige of General Pingbei.

And on this bloody road, only Shi Le fought with him repeatedly and defeated repeatedly. When tens of thousands of heroes under the command of the Pingbei Military Government became a huge variable that turned things around; Shi Le is still the same Shi Le, the terrible hero who is extremely rare in thousands of years of history books, and the biggest murderer who caused the Chinese people to bleed and drift and accumulate bones in the next few years!

How can you not be thrilled to play against such an opponent?

Lu Yao is full of pride and has a calm calculation. According to the analysis of the current situation, he understood that he was afraid that every move of the Youji coalition army since they crossed the river would fall into Shile's plan.

The fall of the shogunate of the king of the East China Sea caused the two armies to lose their common goal; Lu Jun's specious willingness to make peace affected the combat determination of the commander-in-chief of the Youzhou Army; And his identity as an envoy induced inappropriate associations among the generals of Jizhou; At the same time, the Youzhou Army's secret containment of the King of the East China Sea was discovered by them, which made some Jizhou generals have evil thoughts in their hearts...... During the whole process, the Central Plains thieves did not have any particularly mysterious measures, but the situation of the thieves and bandits not moving forward itself left enough time and space for the intensification of the contradictions of the Youji Alliance.

At this moment, the Jizhou army rebelled on a large scale, and the two armies fought endlessly. The rout of the shogunate of the king of the East China Sea fell into Shi Le's eyes, and I am afraid that the meat in the ding is finally ripe, and it can be torn and eaten by the wolves.

The army of thieves did not move slightly, but easily forced the Youji coalition army into a desperate situation; It can really be described as strategizing and winning thousands of miles away. Lu Yao felt that even if the strategy was increased tenfold, he would not be able to do such a divine plan. I don't know if Na Shile is getting more and more powerful, or if he has recruited some strange people to be able to do this.

However, Lu Yao was not the slightest fear.

As long as the Central Plains thieves dare to come, Lu Yao will dare to fight with them. As a warrior, he firmly believes that all the plans of the enemy can be reversed on the battlefield in the end; Life and death are ultimately decided by the sword!

Wating City Head.

Mak Zeming unfolded a volume of letters and looked at it repeatedly. There were more than a dozen military academy members on his left and right, although more than half of them were traumatized, and they were standing with bated breath at the moment, but their momentum did not diminish at all.

When the Youzhou army crossed the river, they killed Wang Yan, a brave general under Wang Mi stationed in Wating, and sent Mai Zeming to lead an elite raid on Wating, seizing this hub that controlled the upper and lower reaches of the Puqu Canal and held the road on the north bank of Yangqing Lake. In the next few days, General Pingbei repeatedly led the Youzhou army forward, shook the main force of thieves, and always maintained the initiative on the battlefield with Wating City in hand. But the pressure on the Wating defenders was also heavy.

Wating is a small city, the city wall is not more than a mile, and the height is not more than a zhang. Now there were cracks in the walls, and many sections had collapsed, barely held up by the defenders' wooden fences. Both on the walls and in the gaps, there were stains of blood, and corpses that had not been collected were scattered everywhere. Obviously, compared with the thieves of Shile who are good at field warfare, the Central Plains thieves who are fighting against them are more adept at attacking cities and plundering land, and under the attack of the Central Plains bandits, more than 1,200 elites in Youzhou who accompanied Mai Zeming to defend the city are now less than 1,000 people who have retained combat capabilities.

Wating is only thirty miles away from the camp of the Youji coalition army, when the rebels raise their troops at night, the momentum is huge, the fire is soaring to the sky, and the soldiers of the city see and hear it, and they are all secretly worried. After an hour, the military envoy came at night to talk about the rebellion of the Jizhou general Bo Sheng, and ordered the troops to guard their own place so as not to be taken advantage of.

The soldiers in the city hurriedly put out the city defenses, and when they were in a hurry, the second military envoy galloped to the city. This time, he sent a military order: The rebels are difficult to control for a while, and all units of the army are preparing for war.

The fact that such a military order has been issued proves that the situation in which the battalion is located is already quite bad! And just when all the soldiers were shocked, the third military envoy rushed over, and this time it was a letter written by Lu Yao, the general of Pingbei.

The people in the Rong brigade are usually unwritten, so the orders passed on in the army are mostly dictated, and even if they are written, they are simple and clear. However, Mai Zeming was born in Jiangmen in Northern Xinjiang and was also a civil and military officer, so Lu Yao deliberately wrote an order to show his solemnity.

There is no flashy rhetoric in the letter, but a few words are first discussed, truthfully explaining the complex situation facing us and the inference of the future war situation; Then he explained that he was determined to put down the rebellion in the shortest possible time, reorganize the Youji coalition army, and then fight a decisive battle with the Central Plains bandits. For this reason, it was necessary for Mai Zeming's troops to stop the southern bandit army from moving north at all costs, and it was not until noon that they were allowed to open the road and retreat on their own. During this time, the camp could not provide any assistance.

At the end of the letter, he hurriedly put down the pen, simply and neatly: "Or make the culprit give the head, and build a meritorious deed that will be praised for all generations; or defeat and death, so that our robes will be left without any kinds. This sincerity is also at a critical juncture. The task of blocking the enemy is not heavy; Where to go, please general. ”

Mak read the letter twice, gave it to his deputy, read it, and passed it on to the next person. Someone else explained the words of the letter in a whisper so that everyone could understand the meaning.

There was silence on the platform, except for the crackling sound of the pine torches burning. After a while, a voice said bitterly: "This battle is difficult......

In the past few days, Mai Zeming's troops have defended the city, and they have also repelled several attacks by thieves, but this is under the support of Lu Yao's army. With only a thousand troops and a small city in front of you, you want to stop the surging attack that the thieves are bound to come?

This was simply an order for Mai Zeming's subordinates to be sent to death.

Most of the generals and colonels of Mai Zeming's headquarters present are the children of his hometown who have followed him for generations, and they are related to each other's families; There are also some generals under the shogunate of Wang Jun Youzhou, and they have known Mai Zeming for a long time. Therefore, these people have never had any scruples in their words.

"There are only a thousand people in the city now, right? How many thieves are there? Yesterday I heard them shouting that there were 50,000! ”

"That's the name! Boast! Can you believe it? ”

"There are no 50,000, there are always more than 10,000, right? I also heard that Wang Mi's department is coming in this direction, and it is estimated that it is almost there...... You say, how are we going to fight? ”

Wang Mi is the head of the Central Plains thieves, known as the "flying leopard", known for his ferocity and cunning, for several years rampant in the four states of Qingxu, Yanyu and Henan, covering the army and killing countless generals, and the prestige shook the world. If he leads the army into battle, he really has the potential to be overwhelmed by Mount Tai. Everyone was speechless for a while, not knowing what to say.

After a while, the first general looked at Mai Zeming's face and said, "General Lu's camp is only thirty miles away from us, let's immediately send people back to ask for help, if the reinforcements come quickly, they will arrive in the hour." It doesn't take much, it's good to have 2,000 people......"

"Phew! Where did the two thousand come from with you? Look at the firelight in the direction of the big camp to the north! The battalion is in chaos at this moment, General Lu wants to put down the rebellion, and there is no reinforcement! ”

"So how is this battle fought? You said! You said! ”

Suddenly, there was silence. They looked at each other, and a thought uncontrollably popped up in their hearts: Could it be that General Lu regarded the Wating defenders as an outcast?

"What nonsense...... Listen to General Mai! Whatever General Mak says, we will do! Someone snapped. There is something hidden in this discourse, but there is something intriguing.

However, as soon as these words came out, several people sneered in unison: "Don't think too much, General Mai...... You have to listen to the lord! ”

Half of the troops in Wating City were the elite of Lu Yao's team temporarily assigned to Mai Zeming after crossing the river. This unit was formed in Dai County, with Lu Yao's old department of the Bingzhou Army as the backbone officer, which can be called a descendant, and the fighting will and loyalty are outstanding. At this time, these officers held their waist knives in their hands, which suddenly made the generals dare not talk nonsense anymore.

Seeing this, Mai Ze sighed secretly. Wang Pengzu's Youzhou shogunate fell, and it has not been a year since then. Although Lu Yao subdued the powerful people in northern Xinjiang with his strong military strength, the estrangement between the old and new armies was not so easy to dissolve, and the hearts of the soldiers were far from being cohesive. Now that I think about it, the Youzhou Army itself has not been able to achieve unity, and Lu Daoming actually expects that the two armies of Youzhou and Hebei can cooperate seamlessly, which is indeed too optimistic.

However, at that time, the shogunate of the king of the East China Sea was still there, and the situation in the Central Plains was not out of control, so all these problems were not a problem in the first place. Who would have thought that the King of the East Sea and his subordinates would be incompetent so much, that reinforcements would cross the river, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the shogunate would be disintegrated......

When he was helpless about the emotions of the generals on both sides, he suddenly heard someone on the periphery say in a deep voice: "You can fight." However, the city cannot be defended. ”

"If you are outnumbered and don't defend the city, do you go out to fight in the field?" Ichisho scoffed. Just as he was about to say something more, Mai Zeming glared at him angrily and motioned to shut up.

"Old Song, tell me, why can't you defend the city?" Mai Zeming then asked the person who had spoken.

is called Lao Song, a weather-covered old soldier who looks like he is about fifty or sixty years old. It was Song He, who was praised by General Pingbei for his effective command during the river crossing operation.

Mai Zeming is a person who can look at the style, since Lu Yao attaches great importance to this old pawn, he found a reason the day before yesterday and promoted him to be the governor of 100 people. Therefore, they are eligible to participate in military conferences.

No matter what the environment is, Song Hyuk always looks wooden. Hearing Mai Zeming's inquiry, he said slowly: "Although Wating is a traffic artery, there is no terrain around. If we sit and defend the city, the thieves only need to besiege the city with a partial division, and the main force can march north with a swagger. In other words, the thieves are leaving, and it is useless for us to defend the city; The thieves want to attack, and we can't hold the city...... Therefore, it is definitely not possible to defend the city. ”

"And what should we do?"

"General Pingbei's purpose was not originally to ask us to stop the enemy army, as long as we delayed the enemy." Song He took a piece of firewood in his hand and pointed on the ground: "Ten miles to the east, it is the intersection of Puqu and Yangqing Lake, and it is the place where thieves must pass. The terrain was narrow, with wide swamps on both sides of the road, and the reeds were deep and muddy, which was not conducive to large armies. But we can distribute our forces in the swamps and repeatedly harass the march of the thieves; It can also lure thieves into the depths of the swamp and annihilate them. If it goes well, he should be able to entangle with the thieves there for a long time, which is enough to meet General Lu's requirements. ”

Mai Zeming bowed: "The thieves will not move slowly, if they want to intercept there, they must set off immediately." ”

One general hesitated: "That swamp is full of deep holes and pits, and it is very treacherous. It is even more dangerous to go there at night, and the eyes cannot see clearly. Haven't you seen the enemy yet, and you will lose 100 lives first? ”

Song He glanced at him: "These hundred and ten lives are just the beginning. When it was time to fight during the day, because our army was scattered and arranged, and it was inconvenient to move in the swamp, it was easy to be surrounded and divided by thieves. Even if we win this one, we will have to lose hundreds of lives in it. However, the people who sit in the tile pavilion can survive as long as the thieves do not come to attack the city...... Will you sit in the middle of the city and beg the thieves for mercy? ”

The hesitant will retreat with shame on his face.

"The military situation is urgent, and we don't have to talk about it anymore. Just do what Lao Song said. Mai Zeming got up suddenly.

He looked at the generals on one side and said in a deep voice: "When the battle was lost, many of us were afraid of the lord's divine might, so we had to surrender. To be honest, since then, I have often worried that the lord will favor one over the other, and we will not be able to treat the people in Youzhou equally. But how much the lord believes in us, you should all see it. In this situation, if the Lord does not regard us as a trustworthy force, will he give us such a great task? ”

He took off the ring knife at his waist, clenched it in his hand, and continued: "Since the former Han Dynasty, my Youzhou has been the place where elite soldiers came out. Although the situation is delicate at this moment, it is a good time for the husband to make a contribution! Please also live up to the name of your father and grandfather, and do not live up to the favor of your lord. ”

He turned to look at the other side: "Although we have followed the Lord for a short time, our faith and loyalty to him are the same as those of you. Since the beginning of the army, the lord has been invincible and invincible. Today, it is my honor to follow the Lord and challenge strong enemies. I hope you can help me. ”

He suddenly drew his knife, cut a bloody wound on his left arm, and looked around at everyone with blazing eyes: "In this battle, I am determined to complete the task assigned by the lord to the death, regardless of sacrifice and price." ”

The generals around him drew their swords together, cutting their arms and bleeding: "I am willing to fight to the death with the general!" ”