bestfiction Chapter 195 The General is So Fierce
Chapter 195 The General is So Fierce
Yi Tiangan's heart skipped a beat when he heard Du Zhe's words. He frowned immediately. Du Zhe had been with the army all the time. How could he know the news of the Wuhuan royal family?
Du Zhe spat out a mouthful of blood foam, and his left hand holding the blade was shaking slightly, because his right hand was cut off and he was obviously not used to holding the knife with his left hand. He had no idea how many sword wounds he had suffered on his body, and more than half of his personal soldiers who were protecting him were killed or injured.
Although it was tragic, Duzhe launched a sudden attack. Not only did he burn down the Northern Army's grain camp, he even killed two Northern Army generals with his own hands.
Those two men often targeted Duzhe because Duzhe was the general leading the Wuhuan army and had many frictions with the generals under the Northern Army. Only those two men often made things difficult for Duzhe.
Du Zhe endured it again and again for the sake of Yi Tiangan's face, but now that he has betrayed the Northern Army, they are enemies to the death!
What else can he endure?
He then went straight to the two men's tent and killed them on the spot while they were off guard.
Du Zhe's eyes were filled with joy, but Yi Tiangan's eyes were burning with rage. At this moment, he finally understood why Zong Yanli suddenly attacked the camp, and why the left and right camps were so easily breached. During this period of time, our army had been defeated in battles one after another...
It turns out that it was all Duzhe's fault!
Yi Tiangan was so furious that he could no longer hold back and shouted loudly. He rushed towards Du Zhe with a knife in his hand, with murderous intent in his eyes. He was determined to kill the traitor Du Zhe right here!
Om-! ! !
Before Yi Tiangan's sword got close to Du Zhe, he saw a long spear flying diagonally towards him with the force of breaking through the air, forcing Yi Tiangan to turn around to block the powerful attack. Under the violent shock, Yi Tiangan felt that all his internal organs were trembling.
"General Du, let's go." Wen Nian stood with a gun in his hand, his face stained with blood, his eyes seemed to be stained with a bit of scarlet, his expression was filled with extremely crazy murderous intent, but he was able to convey the message to Du Zhe so calmly.
"Thank you." Du Zhe knew that he could not stay any longer, otherwise it would be difficult to escape. He looked deeply at Wen Nian, nodded at him, turned around and led the Wuhuan soldiers to break out of the siege from the side and meet up with Zong Yanli.
"Stay here!!!" How could Yi Tiangan be willing to let Du Zhe go like this? He didn't even want to care about Wen Nian, the enemy, and he wanted to keep Du Zhe's life.
Wen Nian stood in front of Yi Tiangan, rushed forward without saying a word, and stopped Yi Tiangan with his own strength.
Yi Tiangan was about to send someone to chase after him when he saw Meng Qi and Long Feiguang jumping in from both sides. In order to save a mere Duzhe, Zong Yanli actually sent all his main generals.
Yi Tiangan was shocked. He was unwilling to let Du Zhe go like this, so he went to chase after him with Wen Nian, Meng Qi and others.
But would they let Yi Tiangan have his way?
You should know that Long Feiguang and Monk Qi are not only personally powerful, but also have strong personal combat capabilities. All the soldiers under their command are weak. With a command, the soldiers who rushed over were like wolves and tigers that were bloodthirsty and pounced on them without fear.
The battle situation in the front camp was completely lost. Yu Jinghui retreated in a panic. Seeing that Yi Tiangan had no intention of withdrawing his troops, he said anxiously: "General Yi, now is not the time for a long battle! Zong Yanli's ghost camp soldiers have circled behind us and are trying to cut off our retreat!"
"If we don't leave now, it will be too late!" Yu Jinghui panted heavily, frowned and shouted, "The granary has been destroyed. If the troops are swallowed up by Zong Yanli again, it will be over! General Yi!"
Yu Jinghui's words were like needles, piercing into Yi Tiangan's mind.
With red eyes, he stared at Duzhe who was gradually escaping from the encirclement. Then he looked at the Northern Army who were retreating step by step under the force of the Wu Army, which made him clench his fists tightly.
Yi Tiangan had never felt so aggrieved. He almost gritted his teeth and squeezed out a word: "Retreat."
This was the biggest failure and even humiliation he had ever suffered since he took command of the army.
The battle lasted until dawn and ended only when the sun rose high in the sky.
Yi Tiangan and Yu Jinghui were forced to separate, and only then did they shake off Zong Yanli's pursuers. They fled all the way to Liangcheng before reuniting their troops.
In this battle, Zong Yanli won a great victory. Not only did he destroy the Northern Army's camp, he also killed tens of thousands of enemies. Among them, Duzhe led the Wuhuan soldiers to kill more than 2,000 enemies and even delivered the heads of two generals of the Northern Army to show his determination to defeat the Northern Army.
The Wuhuan army only had 15,000 soldiers in the northern army, and the loss from their defection was not small.
Duzhe himself fell into a brief coma due to excessive bleeding.
Zong Yanli took over the Northern Army camp, but unfortunately he did not seize much. Although Yi Tiangan was defeated and fled, he was not at the end of his rope. Naturally, he took the military supplies with him. What was left were only some remnants that he did not have time to take away.
The granary was burned down completely.
Zong Yanli led his men around for a while. Although he felt a little regretful, he was still very excited about defeating her.
At the beginning, Zong Yanli imagined that it might take more than half a year of tug-of-war, and only by slowly depleting the enemy's strength could there be a chance of victory.
Unexpectedly, the appearance of the Wuhuan Princess brought about a huge turning point in the war situation. How could Zong Yanli not be happy?
"General, the Wuhuan general has woken up!" When Gao Feilin hurried to report, Zong Yanli had just cleaned himself up simply. The military tents in the camp had not been cleaned out yet, and the battlefield cleaning was still in progress.
"Yes." Zong Yanli wiped his face, put on his helmet and visor, stood up and said, "Go and bring Princess Saiya."
"Yes." Gao Feilin responded quickly.
Zong Yanli walked to the tent where Duzhe was. He was still lying on a simple bed, with two soldiers guarding beside him. They were a little nervous when they saw Zong Yanli coming. They were all Wuhuan soldiers and also Duzhe's personal soldiers.
She stood beside the bed, looking down at Duzhe's body which was wrapped in cloth strips, with blood even seeping out. His severed right hand was very eye-catching after he took off his clothes.
Zong Yanli's eyes paused for a moment. He had never expected this day to come. This revenge for a broken hand...
Du Zhe won’t hold a grudge, right?
While Zong Yanli was lost in thought, Du Zhe had already forced himself to sit up. He looked at Zong Yanli with a pale face and said in a hoarse voice, "General Zong Yan, the princess..."
"I have sent someone to invite him." Zong Yanli collected his thoughts, staring at Du Zhe through the bronze ghost mask with his dark eyes, and then glanced at the room full of wounded soldiers guarding him in the tent. He raised his chin slightly and said, "The Northern Army has retreated to Liangcheng."
"General Du has betrayed the Northern Army this time, and he will definitely be hunted down by the Northern Army."
"You and I are temporarily on the same front." Zong Yanli had no intention of beating around the bush with him. He lowered his eyes and looked at him and said, "General, are you willing to join me in the battle?"
Du Zhe smiled bitterly with a pale face and said in a hoarse voice: "It seems that I don't have any other choice now..."
Du Zhe seemed to be injured while speaking. He took two breaths in pain and paused for a while before saying, "I can't answer whether we will form an alliance or not. I want to see Princess Saiya."
Zong Yanli nodded, he was not in a hurry.
She tilted her head and said, "This camp is temporarily left for you Wuhuan soldiers to recuperate. General, take good care of your injuries. When you decide to leave or stay, please send someone to find me."
Zong Yanli said a few simple words and then turned to leave. Gao Feilin followed him and glanced at the Wuhuan generals. He asked with some doubt, "General, do you think the Wuhuan will be of use to us?"
"Yes." Perhaps it was just a short-term alliance, and it might even break up again in the future, but given the current situation, Wuhuan had no choice.
To put it bluntly, Wuhuan is now equivalent to a "lost country" and wants to take back the dominant power from the northern country.
The Wuhuan could only rely on Daqian to completely destroy the Northern Army before they could fight their way back to the north, kill the Wuhuan and regain the kingship.
Zong Yanli came here to talk to Duzhe about his intentions, and also wanted to tell Duzhe that now the best win-win situation is for them to put aside their grudges and form an alliance and cooperate. He thought Duzhe would understand, but Zong Yanli did not expect that Duzhe would want to see Sai Ya first.
It seems that Duzhe is indeed deeply in love with Princess Saiya...
When Zong Yanli returned to the tent, Long Feiguang, Bai Xiuyun and others had just finished taking stock of the battle situation and came to report.
Zong Yanli cheered up and met them one by one. Post-war affairs were the most tedious and tiring, and Zong Yanli had no intention of taking a break.
"General." As the military camps were gradually built and completed, and the military defense was fully deployed by Zong Yanhongjing, Zong Yanli was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.
It's the middle of the dog days of summer, and I always feel stuffy and it looks like a thunderstorm is coming that day.
Zong Yanli was so hot that he temporarily took off his armor. He drank several bowls of water a day to quench his thirst.
When Wen Nianxun came, Zong Yanli was sitting at the desk in the tent wearing only an outer coat, writing a boring military report. What a damn military report!
Zong Yanli looked unhappy and raised his eyes with a bit of annoyance: "What's the matter?"
"The kitchen has prepared some soup to cool you down..." Wen Nian slowed down his pace, not daring to speak loudly. He looked at Zong Yanli with a frightened expression.
"Leave it there." Zong Yanli lowered his eyes and continued writing.
"..."
The general is very fierce.
Wen Nian didn't dare to say a word, and silently placed the cooling soup next to Zong Yanli's desk. He looked at the inkstone kneeling beside him obediently, and stretched out his hand to help Zong Yanli grind the ink. Seeing that Zong Yanli had finished writing a page of paper, he quickly handed over a new one.
Zong Yanli's eyebrows relaxed a little, he stopped and turned to look at the summer heat soup, he took it up and drank it all before saying, "Was it done by Mr. Xiao?"
Wen Nian frowned and nodded: "Yes, the hot summer is unbearable. Mr. Xiao made a lot of soup to relieve the heat."
Zong Yanli's face lightened up a bit, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Give the soldiers in the army three days off to relax."
"It's a hot summer and daily training may harm your health." Zong Yanli picked up the brush and prepared to continue writing the military newspaper.
"General, there is news from the capital." At this moment Gao Feilin's voice sounded outside.
"Read." Zong Yanli really didn't have the time to read it carefully, so he simply asked Gao Feilin to read it directly. He tried to do two things at the same time, writing the military report while listening to it.
The content of the letter was basically nothing important. It was sent by Wei Songhe. It first talked about the recent situation in the capital. As the disaster was healed, everything returned to normal, and the new monarch's succession was slowly getting on track under the control of Empress Dowager Gao.
Gao Jiayue was truly an extraordinary woman, marrying into the Wu clan as a princess of another country.
Now he is in power behind the scenes.
When Wei Songhe talked about the affairs of the Zong Yan family, he mentioned that a minor branch of the family had relied on Zong Yanli's influence to gradually enter the court. Although they are still only minor officials now, they still have to be careful about the minor branches that may take advantage of this to become powerful.
When Zong Yanli heard this, he frowned slightly but said nothing.
It was not until Wei Songhe mentioned at the end of the letter that Zong Yanyin was pregnant again.
Zong Yanli's hand holding the pen trembled, and he suddenly raised his eyes, scaring Gao Feilin so much that he stopped reading the letter instantly.
"Asshole!" Zong Yanli threw his pen and cursed, "It's only been a short time since Ah Yin gave birth to Yan'er, and she's pregnant again!"
Zong Yanli stretched out his hand and said, "Bring me the letter paper!"
She must curse this damn Wei Songhe to death!
Not only is childbirth difficult for women, it is also harmful to the body. She felt sorry for Ah Mei's body and naturally did not want to see her give birth to children one after another.
Gao Feilin and Wen Nian watched their general pick up the pen to write a letter with murderous intent. It looked as if he was holding a blade instead of pen and ink. They couldn't help swallowing and mourned for Lord Wei in their hearts for a moment.
Having a brother-in-law like the General is really...
Perhaps it was because she had vented her emotions after scolding Wei Songhe, that when she turned back to write the military report, she was inexplicably calm.
Zong Yanhongjing was happy for a moment when he learned that Zong Yanyin was pregnant, but then he heard that Duzhe and Princess Saiya were coming, so he sent someone to call Zong Yanli to meet them.
Duzhe's injuries have not yet healed and he looks a little sick, but he still forces himself to accompany Princess Saiya.
"Sit down." Zong Yanhongjing was not the kind of person who liked to put on airs, so he asked someone to find seats for them.
"Thank you." Sai Ya helped Du Zhe to sit down, and then sat down and looked at Zong Yanhongjing and Zong Yanli, father and son.
This conversation was completely within Zong Yanli's expectations.
What Saiya expressed was very simple. They wanted the Northern Army to be destroyed and they wanted to return to Wuhuan and take back the kingship.
Sai Ya took a deep breath and said, "I know that General Zong Yan will not stop here. Perhaps one day you will finally set foot in the Northland."
"If that day comes, we, Wuhuan, will be willing to serve as your vassal." Saiya looked directly into Zong Yanli's eyes and said this.
Zong Yanli's expression was slightly confused. She didn't expect Sai Ya to make such a decision.
Sai Ya pursed her lips and smiled, saying, "General Zong Yan, there is no need to be so surprised. During the time I was in your army, I saw with my own eyes a mighty army of generals."
She looked at Zong Yanli with eyes full of admiration and yearning and said, "It is really intimidating that Daqian has a general like you leading the army and such devoted soldiers following you."
"I think Wuhuan has no power to fight against us, and I don't want to risk my life to fight a battle that I can't win." Sai Ya clenched her hands slightly and said, "My father taught me to be grateful. If the general is willing to help me take back Wuhuan this time, I will repay you with all my strength one day!"
"Please help me, General!" Saiya said as she stood up, knelt on one knee and lowered her head.