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Chapter 346 Homeland on the North Coast, General of the Han Family

What is the use of a bull's knife to kill a chicken?

On the afternoon of October [-], the Yongjing Army collapsed before they could survive a hundred breaths, causing many generals in the Huaibei Army to have similar doubts.

The battle today was boring.
The battle has not yet begun, but the outcome has already been decided.

But Chen Chu was very satisfied. Fucheng County was not the only one within Qi State that was ready to make moves now.
He wanted to use the Western Army generals to publicize today's devastating scene to the world.

Only by letting the careerists elsewhere understand the insurmountable gap between the two sides will they become honest, and Chen Chu can buy time to slowly digest the power gained after the civil unrest in Tokyo.

At noon, the Huaibei Army left behind infantry to clean the battlefield and hunt down the defeated troops. Chen Chu led the troops and horsemen to gallop towards Fucheng County.

On the way, they encountered Xie Zaidao and the remnants of his pro-army forces.

At this time, Yongjing's army was even more vulnerable than a frightened bird, and could not muster the courage to resist after seeing the pursuers.

What destroyed their will was not Huaibei's strong combat power, but the fear of the 'unknown'. The copper pipes that spewed fire and smoke were simply not like human beings.

The terrifying object that can crush humans and horses two miles away is probably not the magic weapon of the Thunder God and the Lightning Queen in the sky!

Why was King Chu able to command such immortal weapons?
Could it be that he is really the son of destiny?
There is no shortage of such rumors among the people. The most famous one is that Liu Xiu, the Emperor of Han Guangwu who lasted for 200 years in the Han Dynasty, received the help of meteorites from the sky in the Battle of Kunyang and defeated Wang Mang's army ten times his own. .

Furthermore, the King of Chu has become famous recently, and the local Caobang and Zuojin trading houses often give comic strips with stories about the King of Chu to children for free.

The comic strips had both words and pictures, so even illiterate soldiers and farmers could understand them.

Among them, the one that everyone likes to see the most is the mystical "Qi Fengling Killing the White Bull".
The sergeants in the Yongjing Army had heard something about it, but originally, they didn't believe it.

But today, after witnessing with my own eyes the scene where the King of Chu used the power of thunder and lightning to take someone's head a thousand steps away, the morale of the army collapsed instantly.

How can human power compete with divine power!
So, when King Chu's horse army and others caught up, the soldiers guarding Xie Zaidao abandoned their last traces of professional ethics and scattered in the wilderness and fled.

In this way, Xie Zaidao became more conspicuous.

Finally, six miles south of Fucheng County, Su Maotou was thrown off his horse by the armed guards.

When Chen Chu, who was slightly behind, arrived, Su Maotou and others had already tied up Xie Zaidao.

After all, Xie Zaidao was in charge of an army. Even though he was bound, he still stood on the roadside with his head held high, looking at the young general who was getting closer.

The winner is the king and the loser is the enemy. If you lose, you have to admit defeat!
Xie Zaidao was confident that Chen Chu would not kill him, or that he would not kill him immediately. In the worst case, he would have to wait until he was escorted to the capital to be executed.

But when Xie Zaidao thought about it, he was valuable to the King of Chu. Today, the Yongjing Army was defeated. He at least needed to help the King of Chu gather his subordinates, right?

Furthermore, he thanked Zaidao for being familiar with the local situation and which squires participated in the uprising, uh, rebellion!Yes, which squires participated in the rebellion, and which squires openly obeyed the court, but secretly had a secret affair with Liu E.
Xie Zaidao knows best!

When the king of Chu ransacked his family and blackmailed the squires, who was more suitable to make suggestions than him?

With this thought, Xie Zaidao felt confident and began to imagine that when the King of Chu recruited him, he had to shirk several times to appear to have military integrity and not make the King of Chu unhappy.
As his thoughts changed, Chen Chu was approaching on horseback.

Xie Zaidao looked up at the sky with a slightly arrogant attitude, showing his loyalty at the risk of his own life.

However, Chen Chu only lifted the reins slightly and asked Xiao Hong to slow down a little, then asked, "Is this person Xie Zaidao?"

"Go back to your lord! It's this person who has been identified!" Maotou clasped his hands in fists, unable to conceal his excitement.

Chen Chu nodded, put his feet on the horse's belly, and said simply: "Kill. You quickly follow the army and attack Fucheng County."

"Yes!"

When Maotou replied, Xiao Hong, who had received the signal to speed up, was already moving forward. In the blink of an eye, Chen Chu led his pro-horse army away, leaving behind only a trail of smoke and dust.

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Xie Zaidao opened his mouth slightly and was a little unable to react. He saw that the schoolmaster who had captured him actually drew his sword and came towards him. Xie Zaidao was shocked and said hurriedly: "Little brother! Wrong, wrong! The King of Chu just now must be I didn’t hear what you said. I am Xie Zaidao, commander of the Yongjing Army! The prince must not have heard clearly. You should catch up and report again."

On the official road, a group of soldiers of the armed guards ran quickly northward. The leader was Maotou's old brother Qin Dachuan in the army. Qin Dachuan did not stop when he saw an acquaintance, and shouted as he ran forward: "Maotou, Why are you delaying here? Hurry up and pursue us, rush into Fucheng and capture Liu E!"

"okay!"

Mao Tou agreed, turned around and thrust the knife into Xie Zaidao's chest. Mao Tou was not very old, but he was also a veteran in battle. When the Pu Dao entered his chest, in order to prevent the blade from getting stuck in his chest, he deliberately used a horizontal knife style, accurately cutting from the two blades. Between the sternum and into the heart.

Until now, Xie Zaidao was still staring at Maotou with disbelief.

Maotou immediately drew his sword and muttered: "Is your rule very big? Does Li Bangyan know? I was the one who sent him away when he became prime minister. Hehe."

At the end of noon, the sun is in the sky.

The vast and fertile fields are full of broken troops running like wolves and swarms.

But above the official line, a cavalry army of about 2000 people had a clear goal and headed straight for Fucheng County.

A few miles behind the horse army, there were groups of infantry ranging from a hundred to a thousand people. The two-legged people were not pushed too far away by the four-legged horses.
Their target is also Fucheng County.

Fucheng Liu E is the man who must be captured in this battle.

Fucheng is less than ten miles away from the border river between Qi and Jin. If he is allowed to run to the Kingdom of Jin, it will be troublesome.

In the battle of Guanjin Town, Yongjing's army was defeated so miserably and too quickly that the defeated army fled back to Fucheng County before Chen Chu.

As a result, Liu E in the city was shocked.
When Chen Chuwei arrived at the foot of Fucheng, the gate of the county town was open. People inside were rushing out of the city like headless flies to escape for their lives. However, there were also defeated troops who wanted to enter the city and take advantage of the city to fight against trapped animals.

Both sides crowded inside the city gate, and finally broke out and raised their swords and guns at the people.

For a time, there was chaos inside and outside the city gate, with people crying and shouting.

Chen Chu took a quick look and guessed that Liu E had abandoned the city. He immediately ordered Tie Dan and Guang Jie's army and horse camp to quickly enter the city and occupy the city gate, waiting for the infantry from behind to arrive.

He took the White-haired Rat and Pang Shengyi's troops to pursue north.

After the brief instructions, all the generals responded with clasped fists, but Tie Dan said: "When we leave the capital, Sister Cai has told us that Tie Dan should not leave Brother Chen's side at all times to prevent any unexpected events."

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Disobedience on the battlefield can be big or small. Fortunately, Shen Zaixing's sworn brother Pang Shengyi hurriedly said: "That's fine! My kung fu is not as good as Tie Guan's, but with Tie Guang's presence, I can protect the prince! I will lead my troops into the city with Guangjie's cavalry army!"

With him smoothing things over, the matter was temporarily resolved.

Tiedan and Baimaoshu each led their respective headquarters and followed Chen Chu to pursue northward.

Sure enough, within a quarter of an hour, Chen Chu caught up with Liu E and others by the boundary river.

At this time, Liu E, along with dozens of squires and more than a hundred guards, had arrived on the north bank of the river by boat. There were still hundreds of women, children, and family members left on the south bank.

When the family members saw the pursuers approaching, some people jumped into the river in panic to escape, but they refused to abandon the heavy and soft things in their arms. After a few flops, they sank to the bottom of the river.

More people simply knelt down and begged for mercy.

Chen Chu couldn't care less about these people. He looked around and saw that the ferry was nowhere to be seen, and immediately began to take off his armor.

The other soldiers immediately understood.

Horses are born with the ability to wade in water due to their physiological structure, but they cannot carry heavy objects in the water. The armor weighing dozens of kilograms may not be able to withstand it.

They took off their clothes happily, but they were only wearing thin undershirts. I'll wait until I get in the water again, but I'm brave enough not to be seen clearly by you!

After some hesitation, Tie Dan, who always remembered to protect Brother Chen, did not take off his armor in front of more than a thousand brothers. Instead, he lay down next to the curly green-maned horse's ear and muttered something.

It seemed like he was discussing with Brother Ma to let him work hard later and carry her across the river.
It’s a long story, but actually everything happened in just a few dozen breaths.

After Chen Chu took off his armor, he patted Xiaohong gently. The latter turned his head and snorted, spraying Chen Chu's face, as if he thought the master was too pushy. It was cold, and he asked Master Ma to get into the water!
He gets scolded, but Xiao Hong is never bad at anything.

It was still him who stepped into the river first.

With it taking the lead, the other war horses went into the sea one after another.
After a while, the slow-flowing calm river was full of horse heads with their heads raised and breathing.

Liu E and others on the other side thought they had escaped, but the scene in front of them made their faces change with fright, and they immediately ran away to the north.

Subconsciously, they felt that the deeper they went into the hinterland of the Kingdom of Jin, the safer they would be.

What Chen Chu was worried about was that Liu E would fall into the hands of the Jin State. If an ambitious man who claimed to have royal blood and the right to inherit the throne was supported by the Jin State, it would easily cause internal divisions in the Qi State.Fortunately, it didn't take much time to cover the ten-foot-wide river.

After landing, Chen Chu gathered a team of more than a hundred people and chased after them, not caring about waiting for the majority.

Liu E and others relied on their feet. Even if they ran a certain distance first, Chen Chu didn't waste much time catching up.

The guards had no intention of fighting, and after a few token resistances, they fled.

Chen Chu did not pursue him, but surrounded Liu E and the squire.
At this point, Liu E and others refused to resist and surrendered one after another.

Before he could count the number of people on the other side, he suddenly saw a cloud of dust in the distance.

At first glance, he knew that a large group of cavalry troops were heading here to kill them.

Liu E seemed to know that reinforcements from the Kingdom of Jin were coming, and he immediately collapsed to the ground, stalling for time.

After his uprising, he secretly contacted Wang Wenbao, the guard of the Jin Kingdom's Hejian Mansion. The latter did not comment on what he had done, but made a promise to save his life.

However, no one could have imagined that Liu E's so-called one hundred thousand army would be defeated before it could last even half a day.

Wang Wenbao was not prepared in time and came a little late.

But the white-haired rat next to him was not used to Liu E. He stepped forward and stabbed Liu E in the abdomen with a scabbard. When he curled up in pain, he asked Erlang and Xiao Yi to tie him to the horse.

Afterwards, everyone escorted the gentry and retreated quickly to the boundary river.

When they arrived at the shore, the boat just now could only carry a dozen people at a time. The gentry knew that they would not be able to eat well when they returned to Qi, so they began to sit on the shore and refused to leave, citing reasons such as not being able to swim and being old.

Chen Chu frowned and turned around. Seeing that Yanchen was only four or five miles away from here, he couldn't tolerate any further delay, so he said to the white-haired rat: "Since you want to stay in the Kingdom of Jin, let them stay. Remember to take your head back with you." "Homeland of Qi"

This sentence frightened all the squires to get up quickly, not to mention that they couldn't swim and were old.

But the white-haired rat didn't give them a chance to regret. With a wave of his hand, dozens of brothers from the scout camp rushed forward and killed them all with one knife without saying a word.

Then he cut off the head, tied it around his waist, and mounted his horse to float across the south bank.

A gust of autumn wind blew by, and the green and yellow mottled reeds on the shore rustled. Below, there were corpses lying on the ground.

The gurgling blood merged into the boundary river and meandered eastward with the flow of the river.
On the south bank, Wang Yan, Peng Er and others had arrived with their infantry. The family members of the squire under their control watched the massacre on the other bank and burst into tears.

Tiedan was very depressed. She was wearing armor, and the green-maned horse struggled to carry her to the north bank, but she was almost the last one to reach the bank.

However, before she could join the battle, Chen Chu had quickly finished and returned to the shore.

So Tiedan's trip was in vain, and he had to go back the same way as soon as he landed.

But what was more depressed than her was the green-maned horse that was foaming at the white from exhaustion.
On the way back, something terrible almost happened.

Tiedan's armor weighed fifty kilograms, and it became even heavier when it hit the water. The green-maned horse finally managed to reach the north bank, but it didn't even take a breath before returning to the south bank.
It can't hold on anymore.

Tiedan watched as Xiaoqing kept sinking. The water had reached the horse's ears and the horse's nose was trying to lift up. Although the river water had not yet submerged the horse's nose, it would definitely not be able to swim to the other side if it continued like this.

Tie Dan felt sorry for his comrades, and in desperation, he simply turned over and rolled off his horse.
This time, Xiaoqing felt relaxed.

But Tie Gu, who was wearing dozens of kilograms of heavy armor, fluttered twice and found that he couldn't stop his body from sinking at all.
In panic, he glanced at Chen Chu not far away, and only had time to cry out, "Brother Chen, save me, save Gululu, Gudu"

"Erlang Xiaoyi, follow me to rescue Tie Dan."

Under the water, Tie Dan faintly heard this sentence, and then lost consciousness.

Not even a moment later.

On the south bank of the boundary river, Wang Yan and Peng Er were stunned, and Pang Shengyi, who had red eyes, also forgot to cry.

Erlang and Xiaoyi clasped their toes in embarrassment, but they did not forget to drive away some brothers who were standing on tiptoes and looking over.

Just because the dignified Prime Minister of Qi and the King of Chu actually took advantage of others' danger and took advantage of their brothers.

Look at him!
A pair of demons grabbed Brother Tie Dan's chest and pressed him, and from time to time he even kissed him!

In broad daylight, the sky is bright!
If you attack your own brothers, don't you care about the morality of the world!

Just when Erlang was slandering Brother Chen, he heard a "burp" sound, a water arrow came out of Tie Dan's mouth, and he woke up leisurely.

What caught his eye was the relieved Chen Chu.
"Brother Chen, am I dead?"

"You're not dead! I was almost scared to death by you! How can you die if you don't show off your strength?"

Chen Chu complained, rubbed his sore knees, and stood up.

On the other side of the river, a general had just dismounted and looked towards the south bank with a gloomy expression.

This man is wearing a willow-leaf ruffled armor, a coiled collar, and a narrow-sleeved tabard, typical of the Jin Kingdom and Han Army uniforms.

"On the other side, who is the Qi general leading the army?"

General Jin took a cursory glance and saw no one dressed as a senior general on the other side, so he asked loudly.

Chen Chu stepped out of the crowd and replied with a smile: "I am Bai Yutang, the first warrior in Da Qi. I am nicknamed White-haired Rat. Who are you?"

White-haired rat:? ? ?

Boss, you are quite a nice person.
"My official, Wang Wenbao, the commander of Dajin's Hejian Mansion! Bai Yutang, let me ask you, why did you cross our border? Do you know that if you provoke me and anger me, Dajin, even your princess can't afford it! "

Wang Wenbao asked across the river, but Chen Chu said: "General Wang, don't talk nonsense. Our brothers only went down to the river to touch two fish and never swam across the middle of the river. How can you say that you crossed the border?"

"How brave!" Wang Wenbao was furious, pointing at the messy corpses in the reeds, and scolded: "Bai Yutang! How did these people die?"

Before Chen Chu could answer, the already talkative 'Zhen Bai Yutang' couldn't hold it back and immediately retorted: "Sir, someone died on the border of Jin Kingdom, and you asked me what Qi Kingdom did? Could it be that you want me to do it?" Waiting to help you Jin Guo investigate the case?"

"What a smooth-tongued man! Who are you?"

Wang Wenbao frowned and asked again. The white-haired rat tugged at his wet crotch and said in a tone that wanted to beat him: "Haha, I am not talented, but I am the eldest son of Qi State's fierce general Yao!"

"Haha, what a great eldest son Yao, I will remember you and Bai Yutang!"

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Brother, can’t you just remember the fierce general brother?

A quarrel across the river could not lead to an eyebrow.

Even Wang Wenbao, who relied on his superior military commanders, did not dare to cross the border and cross the river without permission. This matter would eventually have to be reported to the superior officials for them to handle.

Not three moments later, Wang Wenbao ordered people to collect the headless body and left in anger.

Tiedan was sitting on the ground, and Pang Shengyi was whispering something to her. Those innocent eyes like a child glanced at Chen Chu from time to time, and his right hand always rested on his chest unconsciously.

On the side, Erlang carefully explained to Tie Dan: "I just asked for brother Tie Dan. Brother Chen touched you and kissed you all to save you."

Normally, if someone dared to talk to Tie Dan like this, he would probably be punched twice by the Shen family on the spot, but this time, Tie Dan lowered his head and said: "Children of Jianghu, I'm not angry. Erlang, please don't shout in the future." My brother, I am obviously from a daughter's family."

"Huh? When you were playing in Qifengling when you were a kid, I called you sister, but you beat me once and forced me to call you brother. How has it changed now?"

".Anyway, don't call me brother anymore!"

"Oh. Brother eldest son is indeed right. A woman's heart is like a needle in the sea! One moment it will be like this, and another moment it will be that way."

Erlang sighed with emotion, but Xiaoyi curled his lips and said: "Brother eldest son? He knows nothing about women!"

In the distance, Chen Chulinfeng stood on the south bank of the boundary river, looking at the great mountains and rivers on the north bank, and was filled with emotion.

After Shao Qing, Wang Yan also came over and stood side by side with Chen Chu, looking at the same place.

After a long time, Wang Yan suddenly smiled and said: "King Chu, you know that the boundary of Hebei used to belong to Liao, but now it belongs to Jin. But King Chu was the first Han general to lead his soldiers to the north bank in the past hundred years of the Zhou and Qi dynasties. .”

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