Father is on top, I was wrong

Qingcang Road, a wild road located halfway up the mountain.

In the middle of winter, there are no vegetation, strange rocks are everywhere, and the roads are rugged and weird.

Behind the huge rocks is very suitable for ambushes, and the mountain road is several miles long, even if there are tens of thousands of armor hidden, it can be kept calm.

Wen Wujue stood on a high mountain, stared intently for a moment, then suddenly waved: "Stop!"

His voice was not loud, and the sergeant next to him immediately stopped loudly.

The mighty tens of thousands of troops suddenly stopped at the foot of the mountain.

Doubts floated in Wen Wujue's mind, there was a fight ahead on the Qingcang Road, the shouts were loud, and the dragon and tiger banner with the word "Xiao" on one side stood steadily in it, like a pin that stabilized the sea.

The enemy's flag is black with colorful feathers, while the own flag is bright yellow with a red dragon tail.

From a distance, the bright yellow flags were all over the mountain road, swaying endlessly, accompanied by shouts and suppression, the number was actually several times that of the black-bottomed flags.

Even the little soldier next to him could see that something was wrong.

"The emperor only led [-] soldiers and horses, why does it look like there are tens of thousands of soldiers?"

Xiao Bing didn't know the inside story, but Wen Wujue did. Where there were eight thousand soldiers, there were obviously only three thousand, and they ran to rob food.

But the strange thing is, where did the three thousand soldiers and horses come from so many flags?

What the hell is Xiao Gui doing?

Wen Wujue frowned, did not let the army advance hastily, but continued to observe intently.

Looking at it, he suddenly noticed something, and his eyelids twitched.

Taking a closer look, these flags are not scattered randomly, but there seems to be some kind of pattern.

There is a large gap between the formations of our own troops, but the distance between each two is almost equal, about ten steps.On the long mountain road, it is drawn into an octagonal shape, and the upper and lower lines are extraordinarily long and thick, as if two teams of people and horses are intertwined together, and the distance is even smaller.

Drums were beating loudly throughout the mountain road, and flags were shaking, and the momentum was particularly large.

Wen Wujue stood there for a moment, then smiled lightly, the dog emperor has some skills.

This is Xiao Gui's flexible use of the eight-door formation, with a large number of flags wrapped around him, waving the flags and shouting, pretending to be a large number of soldiers and horses.Then, taking advantage of the natural terrain with many rocks, the troops were dispersed to form an octagon, making the enemy think that they were outflanked by the opponent, and the morale of the army was chaotic. At this time, random assaults from individual directions were enough to force the enemy to flee in a panic. .

Of course, they cannot be allowed to leave at will. At this time, it is necessary to use the flags of various colors in the army to command a unified action by raising a flag of a certain color, and concentrate their forces to attack their retreat, making them mistakenly believe that this There are heavy soldiers ambushing everywhere, forcing them not to retreat from this road.

After delaying for enough time, gather all soldiers and horses and leave quietly.

Wen Wujue looked at it for a while, then he waved his hands and said, "The whole army rests here, and we are here to meet the emperor."

Xiaobing was puzzled, "Ah? Prime Minister, don't you want to save the emperor?"

He found a fairly flat rock and sat down, and said, "No hurry, he will come out later."

"But the emperor only brought three thousand soldiers, if...if there is an accident..."

Wen Wujue smiled lightly, "That's what he deserves."

This method is bold and risky, if it is not Shi Huaiqing who is here today, but King Ning, he only needs a strong army to test out Xiao Gui's real strength.

Then Xiao Gui could hardly fly even with his wings inserted.

So in the final analysis, it all depends on the opponent being too good.

Wen Wujue thought for a while, stood up, and pointed to the three thousand soldiers, "You go around the official road from Qingsong Road, meet the people who intercept the grain and grass, and leave as soon as the grain and grass are received. Don't love to fight, go straight to the city, just go straight to the city. Just send someone over and talk to me."

After finishing the arrangements, Wen Wujue sat calmly on a high place to observe the battle situation in Qing Cangdao.

Until sunset, the people who cut the grain and grass came back, and the grain was transported into the city smoothly, but the two armies on Qingcang Road were still stalemate.

He even wondered if Xiao Gui deliberately used this opportunity to train the army in actual combat?

Wen Wujue rubbed his sore knee, feeling faintly worried.

The rations were intercepted, and the enemy would get news soon. No matter how stupid Shi Huaiqing was, he would have guessed the purpose, and he would definitely fight to the death when the time came.

And Xiao Gui was just bluffing, if the enemy's firepower was fully fired, maybe [-] sergeants would not be enough to fight.

The hours passed little by little, and the sky gradually darkened. If he waited any longer, he would not be able to see the battle situation clearly when it was completely dark.

Wen Wujue pondered for a moment, then ordered the whole army to march to Qingcang Road.The surrounding mountain roads were gradually submerged in black, and the light from the torches was faint.

At this time, the sound of galloping horseshoes suddenly came from the fork in front of the road, which was hurried and noisy.

Wen Wujue's face tightened, and he poked his head out of the carriage to take a closer look.

"Stop!"

A former military sentry came on horseback.

"Prime Minister, there is a large group of soldiers and horses ahead! There are about thousands of people."

Will it be Xiao Gui?

Wen Wujue said in a deep voice, "Explore again!"

This time, the sentry didn't come over, and a cavalry galloped in front of them, strangling them before marching.

A little soldier stepped forward to take a look, and immediately knelt down, "Your Majesty!"

Then all the soldiers knelt down and shouted long live.

Xiao Gui jumped off the horse, dragged a heavily tied soldier with blood on his face behind him, stretched his leg and gave him a slap in the face.

"be honest!"

The sergeant was dressed in dark armor, with a few inches of gunpoint on his head, he was clearly a general-level Shi Huaiqing.

Wen Wujue waved his hand and let the carriage go around to the front.

Under the firelight of Yeye, Xiao Gui's extremely black eyes seemed to be shining with obsidian, watching the red silk-roofed carriage approaching slowly.

When he came close, he jumped into the carriage, wrapped in a cold breath, and smiled lightly: "Why is Xiangfu here? Are you worried about me?"

Wen Wujue looked at his smug face through the dim light of the fire outside, and said calmly: "I heard that the emperor is surrounded, so come to help him collect the body."

Xiao Gui sneered, "I don't believe you can't see that this is an eight-door formation."

"So what if you see it?" Wen Wujue said in a cold voice, "I came here in person today. If there were other generals, wouldn't it be obvious that this is an eight-door formation? He rushed in with tens of thousands of troops rashly and fought. How many soldiers and horses will be lost?"

According to the original plan, the enemy's food and grass were intercepted, and the enemy's food and grass were not enough on the way back, at least half of it would be lost.

This is obviously a situation where you can be sure of winning without a single soldier, so why take the risk?

It’s okay to take risks, if there is no prior discussion, if there is a change, and the dangerous situation turns into a desperate situation in an instant, who will be responsible?

The distance between the two is no more than half an arm, and they smell each other, but the air is cold.

No one spoke.

Of course Xiao Gui was angry, he returned with great victories, and even captured the enemy general alive.

He suddenly felt very disappointed, but there was no way to refute, so he pursed the corners of his mouth sullenly and did not speak.

Wen Wujue sighed slightly in his heart, he was still too young.

During the expedition, he had no intention of quarreling with Xiao Gui, so he stretched out his hand and said in a slow voice: "Please help the emperor, I have been nervous for a long time, and my legs are weak."

The fingers covering Xiao Gui's wrist were cold, thin and weak.

He suddenly realized that it was dry and cold in the deep winter, and his father had dragged his weak body, waiting in fear for a whole day in this windy place, and suddenly he felt uncomfortable.

There was still some dissatisfaction just now, but it disappeared in an instant, and then I began to review my behavior.

He helped Wen Wujue out of the carriage without saying a word, wrapped his thin body in his hands, and tightened it secretly.

Wen Wujue came to Shi Huaiqing, looked down for a moment, and asked, "Is he the only one?"

"There are still thousands of defeated soldiers who have surrendered, and they will be behind." Xiao Gui said.

Wen Wujue nodded, finally gaining something.

"Don't abuse them, just tie them up, take them all back and see what to do with them."

After this battle, Changping City was finally defended.

As a gateway to the Central Plains, at least for now it is safe.

However, there are more than a dozen cities north of Changping, all of which are now in the hands of the rebel King Ning. If the Northern Expedition fails to recover in one fell swoop, Changping City will not be peaceful in the future, and Wen Wujue does not have to think about going back to Bianjing.

So no matter what, these dozens of cities must be recovered.

In fact, it is not difficult to recover, but the difficulty is that Beiyan stepped in and helped King Ning behind the scenes, so the situation is much more complicated.

After staying in the city, Wen Wujue sent Xiao Gui to repair the grain road in the south to ensure that the grain and grass in the north could be transported to Changping smoothly.

Next, we will fight north. No matter where we go, Changping is the best place to store grain. It can be attacked and defended. Therefore, during the repair period here, opening up the grain road is the top priority.

It's a pity that Xiao Gui didn't think so, he was not interested in supervising grain cultivation, he would rather train recruits in the battalion, or tinker with his wooden crossbow, than engage in grain cultivation.

But since the first battle of Qing Cang Dao, his father had been lukewarm to him. He wondered if he hadn't calmed down yet, so he didn't want to get into trouble again, so he reluctantly led the army to gallop for dozens of miles. to overhaul the grain road.

He went back and forth every day for several days, Wen Wujue was surprised, and asked him: "Isn't there a station along the way? Why does the emperor go back and forth every day?"

Xiao Guixin said, didn't I want to see if you calmed down?

But he owed it very much, "I am happy, if Xiangfu is worried about my hard work, why not give me another job."

Wen Wujue heard this, and smiled lukewarmly: "I'm not worried about the emperor's hard work, but I'm worried about affecting the progress of the grain road repair."

After saying that, he walked away.

Xiao Gui looked at his slender back, gritted his teeth secretly, and became more sure that he was still angry, and deliberately sent him to do this kind of hard work.

In fact, Wen Wujue did it on purpose. He felt that Xiao Gui's temper could not be tempered. He had abilities, but he was too conceited. If he didn't suppress him, what would happen on the battlefield in the future?

On this day, Xiao Gui checked the grain road irritably, and rode his horse for dozens of miles in the cold wind, his mouth was dry, so he reined in his horse and rested in a nearby post.

The posthouse father's wife is a young woman, slender and coquettish, wrapped in a thick jacket, showing a pale face, looking weak and weak.

He suddenly thought of Wen Wujue.

There are quite a few soldiers coming and going at the post station every day, the woman just regarded him as an ordinary general, poured hot tea for him, and prepared to leave.

Xiao Gui suddenly asked: "If a person is angry, what can be done to calm him down?"

The woman froze for a moment, the endless words made people puzzled.