Fu Tianpeng was very upset when he saw that Sun Liu had captured Li Hengshuang and brought him back to the army. When Sun Liu came back, Li Cheng and Tao Zisi looked overjoyed. Tao Zisi suggested to Li Cheng that now that Li Heng is in our hands and Xiangyang city defense is empty, it is a good time to advance troops.
Li Cheng sent Ma Jin and Shao You as the main and deputy vanguards, Tao Zisi as the military adviser, and raised 100,000 troops to attack Xiangyang. The rebels were so powerful that they burned, killed and looted all the way. After hearing the news, the people fled Xiangyang and took refuge in various places.
After Fu Tianpeng got the news, he quickly returned to the camp with Zhao Xueqing and reported the situation in Xiangyang to Yue Fei. Yue Fei was furious when he heard that Li Heng had left his post without authorization and that Xiangyang fell. However, his top priority was to quickly submit a military intelligence report to the court so that Gaozong could order people to mobilize supplies and send troops for reinforcements.
After the Tang Bao arrived in Qin Hui's hands, he took it down and hurried back to the Prime Minister's Mansion to discuss countermeasures with his wife Wang. Wang gave Qin Hui a plan and sent people to buy grain from the people at low prices, and then mixed sand and barnyard grass into the grain. If the court investigates the matter in the future, the responsibility will simply be placed on the grain delivery official.
After Qin Hui heard Wang's plan, he immediately sent people to collect food from the people. He took this opportunity to lower prices and exploit people wantonly, causing public resentment. Many people were thrown into prison by Qin Hui for this, but their way out was blocked. Gaozong had no idea how serious the consequences of this incident would be.
After the grain and grass arrived at Yue Fei's camp, everyone opened the grain bag and took a look. There was only a little rice floating on the surface of the bag, and the rest was all sand and barnyard grass. Niu Gao was furious when he saw this situation. He grabbed the grain delivery officer's clothes and asked him sternly what was going on?
The grain transport officer looked at the sand and barnyard grass in the bag and repeatedly begged Niu Gao for mercy. He told Niu Gao that the food delivery was all planned by Qin Xiangye and that he was only responsible for delivering the food. After Fu Tianpeng heard the grain transport officer's story, he thought of all the shameless things Qin Hui had done before, and the anger in his heart burned brightly. Fu Tianpeng turned around, took out his horse and was about to leave the stronghold. At this time Yue Fei appeared and asked Fu Tianpeng what he wanted to do.
Fu Tianpeng pointed to the grain bag and told Yue Fei that Qin Hui used sand and barnyard grass as food to send to the front army. The soldiers had to fight hard in Xiangyang. How could they do without food? Moreover, this old thief must have tried every means to lower the price, and he has harmed many people. After Fu Tianpeng said that, he was about to mount his horse and go to Lin'an to settle the score with Qin Hui.
Yue Fei stopped Fu Tianpeng and treated him with great righteousness. Yue Fei told Fu Tianpeng that things have priorities. Now that the rebels are attacking Xiangyang, our top priority is to quickly set out to rescue Xiangyang. Qin Hui committed many injustices, so he was naturally punished by state law.
Seeing what Yue Fei said, Fu Tianpeng had no choice but to temporarily suppress the anger in his heart and let the marshal handle him. What Yue Fei is worried about right now is how to provide timely supplies of food and grass. The army has not moved, but the food and grass go first. Food and grass are the backbone of the armed forces, without which it would be difficult to move forward. Yue Fei found the military officer in the camp and asked about military expenditures. The military officer told Yue Fei that due to frequent wars recently, there was not much military expenditure left.
Yue Fei sighed softly and waved his hand to the Sifu Officer. After the Sifu Officer retired, Yue Fei would discuss with Fu Tianpeng and the joint generals how to prepare food and grass. While they were discussing, the soldiers came in and reported to Yue Fei that the King of Heaven was helping Yang Yi outside to ask for a meeting. When Yue Fei heard that Yang Yi was coming, he immediately asked his soldiers to lead Yang Yi in.
After Yang Yi came to the commander's tent, he said hello to Yue Fei and the generals of the joint camp. Fu Tianpeng was extremely happy to meet Yang Yi again. Yue Fei asked Yang Yi why he came to the camp, and Yang Yi told Yue Fei that the King of Heaven had heard that there was a shortage of food in the marshal's camp, and specially organized a fleet to transport 30,000 shi of food. The grain ship is now anchored and docked, and the marshal can send people to quickly transport the grain and grass back to the camp.
Yue Fei thanked Yang Yi for his generous gift of food and kept praising him as a righteous man. After hearing this, Yang Yi said to Yue Fei: "Shuai Yue, you are serious. If you and Brother Fu hadn't rescued you, Yang would have been killed in the hands of the bad guys. Now that the rebels are attacking Xiangyang with great force, as long as Shuai Yue can use it As for the Tianwang Gang, just open your mouth."
After getting the food and grass, Yue Fei immediately made plans and dispatched troops to support Xiangyang. Yue Fei ordered Niu Gao to be the vanguard, Wang Gui, Tang Huai, Dong Xian, Yang Zaixing and others as deputy generals, and raise 100,000 troops to relieve the siege of Xiangyang. The war ahead was tense, so Fu Tianpeng and Zhao Xueqing asked for help and followed the generals to fight against the rebellion.
After Niu Gao arrived at Xiangyang City, he ordered his soldiers to form a formation of wild goose feathers. He walked out of the formation waving his maces, pointing at the city head and yelling curses. Li Cheng got angry after being scolded by Niu Gao. He followed military advisor Tao Zisi, Sun Liu, Ma Jin and other generals, lowered the suspension bridge with the soldiers, and ran out of the city gate with murderous intent.
The two sides confronted each other without saying a word of nonsense. Niu Gao clapped his horse and came forward to beat Li Cheng. Ma Jin wielded the crescent shovel and fought with Niu Gao. After two rounds, Niu Gao hid his mace in his stirrup, turned around and beat Ma Jin to death with his mace. The vanguard won the first battle and greatly boosted the morale of the Song camp. Niu Gao took advantage of the situation and attacked Li Cheng and others.
When Li Cheng saw Niu Gao killing Ma Jin, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth. Just as he was about to step forward to fight in person, Tao Zisi rode over. He told Li Cheng that he had a way to deal with Niu Gao. Li Cheng nodded, turned his horse's head and returned to the formation. Tao Zisi held a three-foot green sword and was dressed in green clothes. He was standing less than five meters away from Niu Gao.
Niu Gao saw Tao Zisi closing his eyes tightly and standing there like a statue. For a moment, he was a little confused as to what this Niu-nosed old man was doing. Niu Gao was afraid that Tao Zisi might use some trick. After reining in his horse and stopping, he said to Tao Zisi, "Hey, you old man, what are you doing standing there like a dumb horse?"
Niu Gao kept asking questions, but Tao Zisi remained silent. When Niu Gao saw this, he cursed and said, "Do you think you can scare me away by pretending to be a clay sculpture of King Kong? I tell you, Mr. Niu will not accept this trick."
After saying that, Niu Gao sped up and rushed towards Tao Zisi like crazy. Tao Zisi was murmuring something, when suddenly a strong wind blew up, flying sand and rocks, and Niu Gao was blown away so hard that he couldn't open his eyes.
When he was trying to figure out the direction, he saw a flash of white light, and then heard Niu Gao yell "Ah" and fell off his horse.
When Li Cheng saw Niu Gao being knocked off his horse by Tao Zisi, he immediately ordered his soldiers to capture him. Fu Tianpeng quickly used Qinggong to rescue Niu Gao before the rebels. When Li Cheng saw that Fu Tianpeng had ruined his good deeds, he opened his eyes wide, gritted his steel teeth, and ordered all the soldiers to rush forward and surround Fu Tianpeng.
Facing the soldiers wearing armor and holding halberds, Fu Tianpeng had no fear. He pulled out his sword and slashed left and right. The sharp sword shadow flew up and down, killing all the attacking soldiers. Seeing that the soldiers could not capture Fu Tianpeng, Li Cheng ordered them to prepare hooks and lassoes to trip Fu Tianpeng down and capture him. At the same time, Tao Zisi repeated his old tricks, trying to deal with Fu Tianpeng using the same method he used to deal with Niu Gao.
Zhao Xueqing waved the Chanjuan Sword and joined the battle circle. Leng Yue's dim light turned into sword energy, and all the soldiers holding hooks and lasso were killed. Tao Zisi was reciting the formula when another gust of wind and sand came over. Zhao Xueqing told Fu Tianpeng not to panic and to pay full attention to the surrounding movements. There was another flash of white light, and Fu Tianpeng saw clearly that it was a flying needle. He immediately raised his knife to meet him, and with a soft sound, the flying needle fell to the ground. Zhao Xueqing and Fu Tianpeng took advantage of this time and both returned to their team.
Tao Zisi almost got angry when he saw that Fu Tianpeng and Zhao Xueqing easily dodged the hidden weapons. However, Niu Gao hit his flying needle, which made Tao Zisi extremely happy. When Wang Gui and other generals saw Niu Gao sitting on the ground foaming at the mouth, they planned to command the troops to attack the enemy's formation and avenge Niu Gao.
Fu Tianpeng and Zhao Xueqing quickly dissuaded the generals in front of the formation. Now that Niu Gao's injury was unknown, they carried him back to the camp and asked a doctor to treat him. As for revenge, after Niu Gao is healed, it won't be too late to settle accounts with Li Cheng and others.
After Wang Gui followed the two men's advice, he led his army to retreat thirty miles and set up camp on the mountain. The soldiers invited a doctor to diagnose and treat Niu Gao. He found that Niu Gao's pulse was sometimes stable and sometimes tense. Looking at his face, it did not look like he had been poisoned. After the doctor made diagnosis and treatment, he stood up and shook his head repeatedly. He told the generals that he had been practicing medicine for many years and had never seen such a disease before, so he could not continue to treat General Niu.
Niu Gao was injured by Tao Zisi, and Wang Gui asked Fu Tianpeng what he could do. Fu Tianpeng looked at Zhao Xueqing. At this moment, her eyebrows were furrowed and she was thoughtful. It took a long time for Zhao Xueqing to regain her composure. She told Wang Gui that now that General Niu was injured, the enemy would probably attack our camp overnight. You can send an army to hide in the dense forest on the mountain road. When the enemy comes for a sneak attack, you can cooperate internally and externally to defeat the enemy. In addition, capable soldiers must be sent to search everywhere to see if anyone can come to rescue Niu Gao.
Wang Gui adopted Zhao Xueqing's strategy. He ordered the soldiers of the three armies to strengthen their vigilance to prevent the rebels from taking the opportunity to steal the camp. On the other hand, the soldiers who were dispatched came back one after another to report. They searched far and near, but they could not save General Niu.
Just when everyone was in sorrow, Yang Yi came in with a doctor. Wang Gui and others quickly let Yang Yi and the doctor into the camp, and asked the doctor to diagnose and treat Niu Gao quickly. After the doctor checked Niu Gao's pulse, he took out a magnet from his baggage. After he circled Niu Gao's chest twice, a flying needle shone with a cold light and stuck to the magnet.
After the hidden weapon was taken out, the doctor told the generals that General Niu Gao was no longer seriously ill. He only needed to take care of himself for two days and drink some decoction to recover. Fu Tianpeng and all the generals thanked the doctor for rescuing him. Wang Gui was filled with joy and rewarded the doctor with generous medical expenses.
Just when the doctor was about to turn around and leave the camp, Zhao Xueqing suddenly stepped forward and stopped the doctor with her sword. Faced with Zhao Xueqing's move, Fu Tianpeng and the other generals looked surprised, but Zhao Xueqing told everyone that she had reason to do so.
