After some analysis by Chen Xiaomu, Ximen Ruoen and Du Fengxian suddenly felt a lot more at ease. They then agreed that Cheng Er would select twenty capable cavalry and go to Hubei to find a way to pick up their families. Xiao Cheng led his 3,000 troops to cut off Chu's scholar army from the outside world. Du Fengxian took charge of guarding the general's mansion. For the time being, he redeployed various troops in the city in the name of Wang Yun. Zhang Yun led more than 5,000 troops and Chen Xiaomu to garrison The 15,000 Zheng troops outside the city were preparing to attack Xinjing, the capital of Zheng State.
Everything was arranged well. Cheng Er led 20 cavalry out of the city before dawn. Xiao Cheng's 3,000 troops also surrounded the Chu Scholar Army camp like an iron barrel. Chen Xiaomu decided to stay in Xinhe County for another two days. On the one hand, he needs to replenish some food and grass for the 15,000 Zheng troops he leads. On the other hand, he also has to think carefully about his next action plan to attack Xinjing!
Things turned out as Zhang Yun expected. When Chen Xiaomu took Ximen Ruoen back to the Zheng Army camp waiting for them outside the city, he explained the current situation in Xinhe City to Zhang Jian, the deputy general of Zheng Army, and asked him to arrange for soldiers to enter the city at night. After pulling food and grass, he asked Li Gui to send all the scouts to the direction of Xinjing, the capital of Zheng. They stayed there until evening before he and Ximen Ruoen rode back to the garrison general's mansion in the city. Du Chengxian and Xiao Cheng were already guarding the general. The people in front of the house are like ants on a hot pot, circling around in circles! When I saw them riding back from a distance, I felt like I was seeing a savior, so I rushed towards them in a panic.
"Mr. Chen, you're back! This bunch of scholar soldiers from Chu State have not only gone on a hunger strike since they learned they were surrounded in the morning, but some of them are seeking death. Some even hit their heads against the wall until their heads were bleeding. Among them, There is also a group of people led by Lin Jin who are holding weapons and want to fight us desperately. If this continues, I am afraid that many people in this scholar camp will die tonight!"
"How did you deal with it?" Chen Xiaomu asked calmly.
"No matter how they make trouble, we resolutely order the soldiers to push them back. No one is allowed to come out, but these people are still unwilling to hand over their weapons," Du Fengxian said helplessly.
Chen Xiaomu nodded, "That's right. If they want to die, just let them die. More than a thousand people have to waste a lot of food every day. If they are really willing to die, I would admire them."
"Then what should we do with them next?" Du Fengxian and Xiao Cheng asked almost at the same time.
"Come on, take me to the scholar camp. I want to see how hard these rotten bones are!"
Chen Xiaomu took Ximen Ruoen and followed Du Fengxian and Xiao Cheng through twists and turns in Xinhe City, passing through several alleys and walking for about five or six miles before arriving at the door of a large house with a large area. According to Du Fengxian, this mansion was previously given by Emperor Zheng Su Chengxuan to the old minister who retired and returned home in recognition of his contribution to the court over the years. As a result, the minister returned to his hometown and just moved into this house. Less than two months after the big house, the Chu army came over. According to regulations, most soldiers who went out to fight mostly lived in tents set up with the army, but these scholars had endured such hardships since they came out of Xinyang Pass with Han Fei. , the soldiers were fighting in front, and they were following far behind. Han Fei also knew that these people came to the front line purely to get gold. The relationship between everyone in the DPRK and China was intricately intertwined. If any scholar was killed in battle, he would be killed. He was afraid that the scholar's posthumous relationship would hinder him in the court at some time in the future, so instead of letting them go to the battlefield to fight like ordinary soldiers, he specially asked a general to lead thousands of soldiers around these scholar soldiers. Specially protect them.
After deciding to personally lead his troops to attack Tianquan City, the last city of Zheng State, Han Fei originally decided not to take these burdens with him and let them stay in Xinjing, the capital of Zheng State. Unexpectedly, his cousin Lin Jin heard about this news. The ability to capture a dragon was too great and too tempting, so Lin Jin united a group of scholar troops and went to Han Fei's mansion to work hard. In the end, Han Fei had no choice but to take these burdensome people with him again. When they were in Xinhe City, they were afraid of bringing these burdens to the battlefield in Tianquan City and delaying things, so they sent people to persuade them to stay in Xinhe City, which was more than a hundred miles away from Tianquan City, and promised them to capture Tianquan City and capture Zheng Huangsu. After Chengxuan, when he wrote to the Emperor of Chu, Xiong Ze, to express his merits, he must bring them along with him. This group of people just gave up!
When this group of people first entered Xinhe City, they heard about the large house that Emperor Zheng had built for the minister. As a result, the minister's family was dragged out and moved in by themselves.
There are three courtyards at the front and back of this large house, with 86 rooms covering an area of nearly 150 acres. Nowadays, except for Lin Jin, the temporary capital appointed by Wang Yun, each person has a room, and a few trusted centurions live there. There are only a dozen or so people sleeping in one room on the floor, and even the corridors and the small pavilions in the garden are full of people.
When Chen Xiaomu and Du Fengchun arrived at the gate of the big house, they happened to catch up with a group of soldiers under the command of a centurion, holding swords and guns and surrounding a group of Chu scholar soldiers who rushed out from the gate. There was a confrontation at the door. Since they were all wearing the armor of the Chu army, at first glance they thought there was a firefight within the Chu army.
When the centurion saw Du Fengxian, Xiao Cheng and others approaching, he hurriedly greeted them, bowed and saluted: "Mr. Du, Xiao Dutong, these people said they would fight us to the death tonight. Just now they had They injured more than a dozen of our soldiers, but our soldiers are very afraid of them and dare not fight them with all their strength!"
"Who are they leading the trouble?" Chen Xiaomu interjected and asked.
The centurion looked up and saw that the person who asked him was an unfamiliar young man. He didn't know what to answer for a moment, so he still didn't answer. He was stunned for a moment. Du Fengxian pointed at Chen Xiaomu and introduced, "This is the military advisor of the garrison general's mansion just sent by Marshal Han. Military Master Chen."
The centurion hurried over to greet him and replied: "Commander Chen, please look, that short fat man in heavy armor is the one who is leading the trouble this time." "Chen Xiaomu looked in the direction of his finger and saw a short fat man wearing heavy armor and a full-face helmet standing at the gate. It happened that this short fat man was also looking towards them. , when he saw Du Fengxian and Xiao Chenghou riding on the horse, he immediately waved the long knife in his hand and pointed it at them, yelling angrily: "Du Fengxian and Xiao Cheng, you two traitors, quickly kill this bird like Wang Yun." Find someone for me, otherwise I will kill these two traitorous nine tribes of you! "
"Who the hell is he? He's so loud!" Chen Xiaomu asked angrily.
Xiao Cheng smiled and said: "If I guess correctly, his name should be Wei Daxun. He is the nephew of a concubine of Daxing Taichung Shuling He Fan. This person's arrogance is second only to Han Fei's cousin Lin Jin!"
"Are you sure you can catch him alone?" Chen Xiaomu looked at Du Fengxian.
Du Feng first visually measured the distance between him and Wei Daxun, and nodded, "No problem, I'm just afraid of hurting the few scholar soldiers protecting him in front of him!"
"It's okay even if we kill all the people at the door!" Chen Xiaomu said lightly.
Du Fengxian heard the words and suddenly jumped up from his horse. First he turned over with a kite in the air, and then followed it with an eight-step cicada. The soldiers from both sides who were facing each other below raised their heads and stared dumbfounded. Du Feng jumped to the top of Wei Daxun's head in a few steps. From the sky, he kicked the long knife out of his hand, grabbed the buckle of his armor with both hands, roared, and fought with both hands. Wei Daxun was lifted out of the crowd and thrown a few feet away like a ball. He fell hard in front of Chen Xiaomu's horse head. Du Fengxian hooked his feet on a protruding crossbar on the door lintel, suddenly did a backflip upwards, stepped on the crossbar on the door lintel with both feet, and jumped into the air. The move of a monkey climbing up a tree once again passed over the heads of the opposing soldiers, and they sat back on their horses. The whole set of moves was not sloppy at all, and was completed in one go in the blink of an eye.
Wei Daxun was knocked unconscious. When the scholar soldiers at the door saw this, they immediately waved their weapons and shouted, trying to rush over to snatch people. Chen Xiaomu waved his hand, "Kill me, I will take care of you if anything happens!" Xiao Cheng's men The soldiers were already full of anger. When they heard the order behind them, no matter who gave the order, they rushed forward for a while, stabbing, picking, chopping, and chopping. A group of people only knew how to eat, drink, whore, and gamble, and had no strength to restrain a chicken. It was so rotten that these strong soldiers were rivals. In an instant, seven or eight scholar soldiers were lying in a pool of blood!
The group of scholar-soldiers who had been standing around the door for a while were stunned when they saw this scene. No one dared to come forward and rush over to rob someone.
Wei Daxun was dismounted and kicked twice by Chen Xiaomu before he woke up. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Chen Xiaomu standing in front of him. He immediately pointed at his nose and yelled, "You bastard, you bunch of rude and ignorant soldiers and bandits. Do you know where the uncle is from? Are you afraid that I will kill your whole family?"
"Oh, then where are you from?" Chen Xiaomu asked Wei Daxun pretending to be surprised.
Seeing Chen Xiaomu's surprised look, Wei Daxun felt a lot better. He said proudly, "You know you're afraid. I tell you, it's too late to regret now. Come help me up quickly. I can leave you a whole body." , otherwise, it will be cut to pieces!"
Chen Xiaomu looked at him with a smile and suddenly said to him, "I heard that you are also a scholar?"
Wei Daxun raised his neck when he heard the sound, "I am a serious scholar. I am afraid that I have read more books than you have ever eaten in your life!"
Chen Xiaomu shook his head and smiled: "I don't believe you have read more books than I have eaten in my life! How about we make a bet?"
"What do you want to bet on?" Wei Daxun looked at Chen Xiaomu with confusion.
"How about we bet on whatever you are good at?" Chen Xiaomu looked at Wei Daxun!
Wei Daxun's eyes lit up, "This is what you said, don't go back on it!"
Chen Xiaomu nodded, "Not only will I not go back on my word, but I will also allow you to find more people in your camp to help you gamble!"
Wei Daxun slammed his hand on the ground, "Done! So what are we betting on?"
"This is up to you." Chen Xiaomu looked at Wei Daxun with a smile.
