The Passionate Guns of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 353 Battle of Mingshui (8)

The prisoner-of-war camp is on a high slope on the north bank of the Mingshui River, and the number of prisoners of war is astonishing. This is a temporary barracks built by Yang Yong in order to better manage the prisoners of war. A beautiful wife led [-] soldiers, including female battalion soldiers, to be in charge of custody.Because after a day of fighting, women are different from men after all, these men are enough soldiers and horses chasing Dou Jiande at night, this is Yang Yong's decision to take care of the female soldiers and generals.

Another [-] soldiers of Dou Jiande were captured before him, and they also needed to be sent to the prisoner-of-war camp by the Mingshui River for unified custody. Cheng Yaojin was ordered to accept this task.

When Cheng Yaojin brought [-] soldiers and horses to escort the [-] prisoners and was about to return to the POW camp, Gao Yaxian jumped up and down and cursed. The remnants of the Sui Dynasty, the gentleman outside and the villain inside, used tricks, separated from their father and son, deceived the public with evil words, bought people's hearts, and finally even scolded the grandparents.

Before Yang Yong could speak, Cheng Yaojin slapped his two big ears. Gao Yaxian's face was swollen and his mouth was full of blood, but he continued to yell.Cheng Yaojin became even more angry: "Come here, cut off this ignorant thing!" Cheng Yaojin's personal guards came over and dragged him to the side like a dead dog, intending to behead him on the spot.

"Keep people under the knife!" Su Dingfang couldn't bear it, and knelt down to Gao Yaxian for the second time to intercede, "General Cheng, my lord, please calm down. Gao Yaxian is ignorant of current affairs, speaks rudely, offends the lord, and should be punished for the crime. He has the kindness to know you, he once adopted him as an adopted son, and later he was promoted to be a general in the army. Please hold your hand high. As the saying goes, if you receive a drop of water, you should repay it. Although Gao Yaxian and his subordinates cut off their righteousness, but Su Mou doesn't want to be a ungrateful person, can you show me some kindness and save his life?"

All the generals looked at Yang Yong, Yang Yong thought, isn't he an elegant and virtuous man, an unknown junior in history, it is meaningless to kill and let him go, the important thing is to make a famous general like Su Dingfang fully satisfied with him, so he smiled lightly and said : "General Su values ​​love and righteousness, and this king admires him. Now this king has let Gao Yaxian go. What do you think?"

"Really?" Su Dingfang couldn't believe it, even Li Jing, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Wu Tianxi, Pei Xingyan and others were surprised, secretly thought, let Gao Yaxian go?The prince is not joking, is he?Gao Yaxian is one of the best people under Dou Jiande's command. He is brave and resourceful, both civil and military. He is a handsome talent. He finally captured him. Su Dingfang said that he should be released instead of killed. Is this possible?

Just when Su Dingfang and the generals were surprised, Yang Yong ordered someone to bring Gao Yaxian to his horse, dismounted and untied him with his own hands, clasped his fists and said: "General Gao is frightened, it stands to reason that you are the general of the defeated army." , was captured by misfortune, and even spoke rudely to this king. It is not an exaggeration to kill you ten times. But, you are Brother Su's adoptive father, and Brother Su is begging for you hard. You can be ruthless, this king and Su Brother can't be unrighteous, I will spare you this time, I hope you will take care of yourself, run for your life!"

Gao Yaxian was startled, at this time, someone returned his horse and sword to him, Gao Yaxian raised the sword and flew on the horse and said to Yang Yong: "Are you really going to let me go?"

"There is no joke in the army!" Yang Yong said seriously, and Su Dingfang also nodded solemnly.

Gao Yaxian looked at Yang Yong, then at Su Dingfang, and said: "You guys are really mistaken to use this method to buy Gao Mou! Since ancient times, loyal ministers don't care about two masters. How loyal and brave, but he will never be like this bastard..." Pointing at Su Dingfang, he gritted his teeth and said, "To Qin Muchu, the seller seeks glory, eats inside and out, and everyone despises him!"

Yang Yong sneered: "General Gao is bad. Brother Su abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side. It was a heroic act. You can't understand it with short-sightedness. In addition, you have to understand that this king never forces people to surrender, whether it is a defeated prisoner or a free man." People. If you don’t believe me, if you ask around, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and tens of millions of people under Yang’s rule all follow Yang voluntarily. When did I, Yang Yong, force every soldier, every plant, every tree? But If someone like General Gao is so pretentious and self-proclaimed, if he wants to join Yang, Yang really has to think about it!"

Gao Yaxian snorted coldly: "Hmph, then don't regret it, Gao will lead the army when he goes back, and fight you!"

"Okay, then I will be waiting for General Gao's arrival, please!"

Gao Yaxian turned the horse's head, Yang Yong's soldiers flashed to both sides, and Gao Yaxian quickly disappeared into the night.

Regarding the matter of Yang Yongyi explaining Gao Yaxian, there are those who agree, some who are guilty of murmurs, and some who don't care.But Su Dingfang was so grateful that he knelt down and said that in the future, he would only follow Yang Yong's lead, and he would go through fire and water, and he would die.

This is what Yang Yong wanted, so he helped Su Dingfang up and said a few words of comfort.Then, he drove to Mingshui County overnight with a large group of troops. At three o'clock, Yang Yong's troops arrived outside Mingshui City. When the 14 troops arrived here, the small county of Mingshui was completely surrounded.

Seeing that it was getting late, the soldiers were exhausted. Anyway, Dou Jiande had become a turtle in the urn. After Yang Yong and Li Jing agreed, they did not rush to attack the city. In charge of the east gate, Wu Tianxi in charge of the south gate, Qin Qiong in charge of the west gate, Pei Xingyan in charge of the north gate, Yang Yong and Li Jing in charge of the central army, after the arrangement, leave enough soldiers on guard and patrolling, and then order the three armies to hurry up and rest.

Since the morning, it has been either a fierce battle or a hurried march. Now the third watch has passed, and it will be dawn in two more hours, so the soldiers are exhausted. sleep.

Taking advantage of his excitement, Yang Yong asked Li Jing, the military strategist, to rest first. He personally led people to conduct a night patrol, but when he returned to the camp, his limbs felt as if they had been filled with lead, and he felt tired. After two yawns, Lian Jia He didn't take off his clothes, and didn't even have time to get on the bed, so he fell asleep on the desk.

I don't know how long I slept, but I was suddenly woken up by someone: "My lord is awake, my lord is awake... Dou Jiande's reinforcements are coming!"

Yang Yong seemed to have not heard the first few sentences, but Yang Yong jumped up from the seat as if he had been stung by the last sentence: "What do you think?"

"Dou Jiande's reinforcements are coming!" the reporter repeated.

When Yang Yong wanted to ask who was on the horse and how many people were there, the earth-shattering shouts outside made him unable to ask further questions. At this time, someone led the horse and brought a big gun. Li Jing in full body garb.

Li Jing told him immediately: "My lord, my subordinates have found out that it is Liu Heita's army that came. They were withdrawn from Mingzhou. There were less than 5 horses, but their morale was very high and they were unstoppable. They were in charge of the south gate. The soldiers have been torn a big hole by them."

"Ah?" Yang Yong was shocked when he heard this!

(End of this chapter)