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Wu Yingxiong!
Governor of Jiliao Wu Yingxiong!
After hearing this name, everyone in Liaodong Town was shocked, unprecedentedly shocked!
Afterwards, several Liaodong Town military attachés were all talking and asking urgent questions.
"Are you sure you saw Wu Yingxiong's flag? Didn't you miss it?"
"How many soldiers and horses does the new Guan Ning cavalry have?"
"Is this Guan Ning cavalry coming towards us? How fast is it? How long will it take to arrive?"
"Why did Wu Yingxiong and Guan Ning Cavalry suddenly appear? But our Liaodong Town didn't notice it at all?"
For these questions, the detectives in Liaodong Town were obviously unable to answer all of them. They stumbled and replied: "It is indeed Wu Yingxiong's flag. I am definitely not wrong... They have at least more than 3,000 troops, but I don't know if there are any more." The follow-up support... indeed came towards the location of Hujiazhuang, very quickly. Considering the time it took for the villain to come all the way to report, they would arrive in an hour at most... But as for why Guan Ning's cavalry was silent If Xi'er appears here, the villain, the villain will not know..."
After hearing the detective's answer, everyone in Liaodong Town became more and more serious.
The newly emerged Guan Ning cavalry has at least 3,000 troops, and there may even be more follow-up support... If we add the two thousand Guan Ning cavalry under Wu Shilin, this means that the Wu family in Shanhaiguan has now lost most of their wealth. It was definitely a big deal to send it to Liaodong, and it was obviously with the intention of winning.
What's more, Wu Yingxiong also took action himself!
Wu Yingxiong is the governor of Ji Liao, and nominally has the power to govern Ji Town and Liaodong Town. Although he only holds the position in name only, and is secretly ridiculed as a "shabby governor" by both the government and the public, but in fact, Liaodong Town has the right to watch the internal affairs of Liaodong Town. The only person who went to Wu Yingxiong was He Yu.
If He Yu is still there, Liaodong Town only needs to maintain the most basic etiquette and politeness towards Wu Yingxiong, and ignore Wu Yingxiong's instructions. Wu Yingxiong himself is helpless, but now that He Yu can't personally take charge, Liaodong Town will no longer be able to handle the situation. I can’t refuse Wu Yingxiong’s order!
The goal of the Shanhaiguan Wu family's actions is also very obvious, that is, they have received news of He Yu's accident and want to take the opportunity to take over the power of Liaodong Town!
Thinking of this, the Liaodong military attaches looked at each other and quickly reached a tacit understanding silently.
That is, they must now unite and face the outside world, and work together to fight against the ambitions of the Wu family in Shanhaiguan!
After all, whether it is Ximen Sheng, He Bandit, and He Rensheng who are loyal to He Yu, Li Zehe, Gan Cheng, Xu He and others who want to seize the opportunity to usurp power, or Li Shijie who is bent on fishing in troubled waters and hoping to take the opportunity to expand the family's power, they They all do not want to be picked off by the Wu family of Shanhaiguan. If Wu Yingxiong controls the power of Liaodong Town, it will be of no benefit to everyone, so they must unanimously deal with the outside world at this time!
External threats and common enemies are always the best catalysts for internal unity.
Just like that, because of the emergence of the external threat Wu Yingxiong, Liaodong Town was united for the first time since He Yu was kidnapped!
Ximen Sheng was the first to change his indifferent attitude and speculated aloud: "Wu Yingxiong and the Guan Ning Cavalry came from the south. I remember that there is a shoal near the sea... Therefore, Wu Yingxiong and the Guan Ning Cavalry will meet silently. Appearing in Liaodong, most likely by means of sea transportation!
But we never received the news in time. It should be that the defenders nearby have been controlled by Wu Yingxiong. We must conduct a strict investigation afterwards... But the key now is, what should we do now? Should we continue to attack Fang Zhenshan and Wu Shilin? "
Xu He, who has always been low-key, also actively made suggestions at this time, saying: "Wu Shilin has been besieged by us, and he probably doesn't know the news about Wu Yingxiong's appearance, so if we want to fight, we must make a decisive decision! If Wu Shilin finds out the relevant news. , the other party will definitely use any means to delay time, and many things will be difficult to handle!"
Gan Cheng frowned and said: "But if Wu Yingxiong and the newly appeared Guan Ning Cavalry will arrive in an hour... there will not be much time left for us. It will be difficult to defeat the coalition forces of Fang Zhenshan and Wu Shilin in this time! Once! When Wu Yingxiong arrived here, we still couldn't successfully deal with Fang Zhenshan and Wu Shilin, so the situation would be very embarrassing, and we might actually face the dilemma of being attacked from both sides."
Li Zehe shook his head slightly and said: "But if there is no fight, once Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shilin and his son meet, the Guan Ning Cavalry under their command will also unite, with a total of at least five or six thousand troops... Guan Ning Cavalry is not Ordinary border troops, Guan Ning's cavalry of this size, even if we add the troops from the camp, it will be difficult to suppress them!"
He Bi thought about it, and finally waved his hand: "Fight! We still have to fight! No matter how small the opportunity is, no matter how high the risk is, we must fight!"
What General Li Shen said is reasonable. Once Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shilin and his son are allowed to join together, their strength will be greatly enhanced, and we will no longer be able to prevent the Shanhaiguan Wu family from intervening in Liaodong Town! If we could defeat Wu Shilin's Guan Ning cavalry before Wu Yingxiong came forward, or even capture Wu Shilin alive in one fell swoop, many things would be easier to do!
We don’t have to worry that this approach will force the Wu family of Shanhaiguan into mortal enemies. The relationship between our Liaodong Town and the Wu family of Shanhaiguan was not good. Now Wu Yingxiong suddenly appears with his troops. It is obvious that he wants to add insult to injury and take the opportunity to interfere in our affairs in Liaodong Town. If we in Liaodong Town are not willing to submit obediently, sooner or later we will completely fall out with the Shanhaiguan Wu family, so we are not afraid to be earlier and more thorough! "
After thinking for a moment, all the military attachés in Liaodong Town agreed with He Bie's judgment, and their evaluation of He Bie was much higher. They believed that He Bie had been with He Yu for many years and had obviously learned some of He Yu's judgment and determination. Wolf nature.
Then, Ximen Sheng suggested: "It may not be easy to completely defeat Fang Zhenshan and Wu Shilin within an hour, but I have some friendship with Wu Yingxiong, and they have fought side by side several times. , Wu Yingxiong probably doesn’t know that we are about to attack Wu Shilin, so...
This general wants to come forward in person, stop Wu Yingxiong's march halfway, establish friendship with him, and question his purpose of coming, so that we can delay as much time as possible and give us more time to fight. He Qianhu how about? "
After hearing Ximen Sheng's suggestion, He Bao hesitated for a moment and finally put aside his doubts. He gritted his teeth and nodded: "Okay! I hope General Ximen Sheng can delay Wu Yingxiong's march as much as possible, even if it is only for a quarter of an hour. It’s also crucial!”
Ximen Sheng nodded. He knew that he could not play any more role by staying here, so he did not delay. He immediately asked He Yu for dozens of guards, and hurriedly left the Liaodong Town army and ran towards the south.
After Ximen Sheng left, He Bandit did not delay at all, and immediately issued another order: "Order the entire army to launch an offensive immediately according to the original plan! Tell the soldiers that there is no need to hold anything back, and there is no need to fear any casualties! No matter what! Who is it? As long as he breaks through the camp of Fang Zhenshan and Wu Shilin, not only will he be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver, but I will personally recommend him to the Commander-in-Chief and promote him to the third level!"
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Following He Bandit's order, Liaodong Town immediately launched a vigorous offensive.
As He Bandit's priority target for this offensive, Fang Zhenshan immediately felt unprecedented pressure.
When the Liaodong Town army attacked Fang Zhenshan's camp, although they did not use the elite of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, the troops they sent were all elites from various defense areas. They were simply not something that Fang Zhenshan's rabble could withstand.
According to Fang Zhenshan's previous estimates, our defense line can only reach Liaodong Town for three attacks at most.
But the fact is that Liaodong Town's offensive was extremely fierce and unreserved. It was only Liaodong Town's first offensive. In just a quarter of an hour, Fang Zhenshan almost failed to withstand it, and the defense line was on the verge of collapse.
In the end, Wu Shilin kept his promise. Seeing that Fang Zhenshan's camp was about to be breached, he promptly led more than a thousand Guan Ning cavalry out of the camp to support and assault and harass the rear of Liaodong Town's army, thus diverting Liaodong Town's attention and weakening the army. The offensive in Liaodong Town must be stopped, otherwise Fang Zhenshan would not be able to defend even the first offensive!
In this way, although Fang Zhenshan barely blocked the first wave of offensive from Liaodong Town, He Bandit's plan to lure the snake out of the cave was successfully realized.
After Wu Shilin led the Guan Ning Cavalry out of the camp to support them, they were quickly entangled by the Liaodong Cavalry led by Li Shijie. Although the Guan Ning Cavalry's attack capability was stronger than that of the Liaodong Cavalry, its maneuverability was slightly less than that of the Liaodong Cavalry. After being entangled, it is naturally not easy to escape.
At the same time, He Bandit immediately led most of the remaining troops and turned around without any delay to attack Guan Ning's cavalry camp with all his strength.
Seeing that their own camp was under attack, the Guan Ning cavalry reinforcements, which were already at a disadvantage because they were bitten by the Liaodong cavalry and were unable to escape, immediately became disorganized and fell even more at a disadvantage.
At this point, less than half an hour has passed since the two sides started fighting!
Seeing this situation, Fang Zhenshan's face turned extremely pale, knowing that he had fallen into the trap of Liaodong Town, and it would probably end badly!
However, misfortunes always come singly in this world.
Just when Fang Zhenshan couldn't help but panic, Song Dahe, the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong branch training, rushed to Fang Zhenshan and reported: "Director Fang, brothers have counted the casualties of the soldiers... The casualties are not serious, even dead and wounded. Only more than thirty people were lost! But..."
Fang Zhenshan took a deep breath and asked, "But what?"
"But after the wave of offensive just now, all the defenses of our camp have been completely destroyed by Liaodong Town. Not only have the Juma guardrails been knocked down by them, but all the trenches have been filled in, and even the protective walls have appeared. Three damages... So, although the main army of Liaodong Town has turned around to attack the camp of Guanning Cavalry, if we still want to resist the strong attack of Liaodong Town later, even if it is just a division of Liaodong Town, it will probably be more difficult. !”
Fang Zhenshan's face became paler, but before he could clear his thoughts, he suddenly heard a large number of footsteps behind him.
Fang Zhenshan turned around and saw Wang Shizhen, the governor of Liaodong, appearing in front of him with a sad face.
Behind Wang Shizhen were dozens of representatives of Liaodong's wealthy families, all of whom had hurried expressions but with a hint of determination.
Without thinking, Fang Zhenshan knew that these people came together to force him to surrender directly to Liaodong Town.
If he did not listen to his advice, the representatives of these Liaodong wealthy families might directly launch a mutiny.
As Fang Zhenshan expected, after these representatives of the wealthy families showed up, they immediately began to persuade and pressure them.
"Governor Fang, you said before that we will definitely not encounter any danger if we follow you this time... Could it be that the current situation is as risk-free as you said?"
"Governor Fang, we are no match for Liaodong Town, so we should surrender! If we surrender now, we may still have a chance to seek forgiveness from Liaodong Town!"
"Governor Fang, we don't want the benefits you promised, and we can't afford them... We just want to protect ourselves now!"
Faced with these persuasion and pressure, just when Fang Zhenshan was seriously considering whether he should "comply with public opinion" or "take a firm attitude", Song Dahe beside him suddenly became emotional and raised his finger to point to the battlefield situation outside the camp. , shouted loudly: "Look! Look! Liaodong Town has suddenly retreated! They are about to retreat!"
Hearing Song Dahe's cry, Fang Zhenshan was startled again. He quickly turned around and saw an unexpected situation.
The Liaodong Town army suddenly withdrew from various battlefields. Not only did they no longer attack their own camp, they also no longer clung to the Guan Ning cavalry who had sent out camp to support them. Instead, after hastily gathering, they simply withdrew from the battlefield. Run quickly towards the dense forest where He Yu was kidnapped!
Seeing this situation, Fang Zhenshan was stunned for a long time, and suddenly his face showed a look of ecstasy, and he danced and said: "Liaodong Town has indeed retreated! Something big must have happened in their base camp! God will not stop me! God will not stop me! Kill me!"
In fact, Fang Zhenshan expected it to be good.
Just when He Bandit led his troops to attack Guan Ning's cavalry camp and was about to succeed, he suddenly received two pieces of earth-shattering bad news!
The first bad news is that another mutiny broke out in our camp on the other side of the dense forest!
The second bad news is that He Yu, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong Town... is dead!
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