Chapter 550
Deng Cui's combat style is just one word - fast, there is no pre-arrangement of troops at all, and no scouts are sent to the front to inquire about the situation. He will take the lead and go wherever he says.
The soldiers were very fast, and he did it. When they attacked the first city, the other party didn't even have time to close the city gate. The soldiers and the people watched helplessly as an unfamiliar army came in. Without saying a word, they immediately surrendered.
The gods and ghosts do not trust foreigners. Every time they conquer a city, they will kill or recruit most of the middle-aged men, and then send their own people to lead soldiers from other places to guard.
It is at least a thousand miles away from home, and the language and customs are not the same. The soldiers defending the city are always nervous and vigilant against the local indigenous people. They basically do not collude with each other. When you see the army, put down your weapons immediately.
Deng Cui never stayed in a city for a long time, usually for three days or as little as one day. He usually killed the city guards appointed by the gods and ghosts, and appointed local nobles. Then he collected some food, grass and horses and brought them to the city guards. Soldiers, who claimed to be sending them home, were actually enlisted in the army.
After leaving the city, Deng Cui said that he was going to continue westward, and maybe he would suddenly change direction and attack the next city that was defenseless.
General Guan Song had known Deng Cui for a long time, but he had never accepted his command. The first time he followed him, he went deep into the enemy area. I don't even recognize the way home, so I can only follow Deng Cui to run around.
Deng Cui knew the way. He had traveled in this area as early as before the war. He had visited many places during his first expedition and collected a lot of maps, but he did not keep any of them. All directions and locations were hidden in his heart. .
About a month later, the Chu army captured Shenye City, which was also the first big city. The opponent had already prepared, closed the city gate, prepared to defend it, and mobilized the soldiers from the surrounding cities to fight the Chu army decisively.
Deng Cui never fought decisively, thinking that it would waste the few troops under his command, surrounded for a long time, whistled in and whistled away, and then sent a small group of soldiers who had surrendered before, posing as reinforcements to enter Shenye City, and started at midnight, for the sake of The Chu army, who went back and forth, opened the city gate.
After capturing the city, Deng Cui immediately half-closed the city gates, forbid anyone to go out. For three days in a row, he welcomed batches of enemy reinforcements, all of them were detained, and then publicly beheaded dozens of fellow tribesmen of the gods and ghosts. Hang the heads of people on the gates of the city, declaring that the city has been owned by the Great Chu, and the new city guard will be called the county guard.
In Shenye City, the Chu army accidentally rescued several Chu people.
A few years ago, the royal family member Han Xi was sent to the extreme west and was imprisoned in Shenye City.
Although he was imprisoned, Han Xi's life was not too bad. He had an independent residence, served by servants, and even married a local wife.
But he did not forget his mission. After seeing Deng Cui, he immediately asked, "What are the plans of the general?"
"Well, go to the beach and see."
Han Xi chatted for a while, and finally realized that Deng Cui had no clear plan at all. Further west, Deng Cui didn't recognize the way, and planned to keep heading south, thinking that he would always reach the seaside.
So Han Xi offered a plan, "Shengui Dadanyu has three capitals, one is in the northwest, which is his hometown, heavily guarded, with few generals and soldiers, there is no benefit to go there, and the location is remote, and it is useless to take advantage of it. The second one is located in the due west, more than 3,000 miles away. It is a famous city for thousands of years. It was there that the god and ghost Da Chanyu established his dominance. It used to be a big port, and the god and ghost Danyu ordered the ship to be destroyed, and it became a stronghold with a lot of troops stationed there."
"Go to the southwest." As soon as Deng Cui heard about the sea, he became interested.
"The way to get there is the farthest, and even if you get lucky, you can't shake the foundation of the gods and ghosts."
"Have you ever played the game of kicking a tree?"
Han Xi was taken aback, "What do you mean, General?"
"When it's raining or snowing, and you see someone standing under a tree, you quietly run over and kick and startle that person. It's funny."
Han Xi was stunned, but he still didn't understand what Deng Cui meant.
Deng Cui didn't explain much, patted him on the shoulder, "Since you know the way, come with me, let's talk in detail on the way."
Deng Cui's army continued to scramble from left to right, going west for a while, and going south for a while, so that neither the enemy nor the enemy could guess his ultimate goal, only knowing that the west was the south.
The west was shaken, and the enemy finally assembled an army of tens of thousands of people, known as 200,000, to intercept the Chu army on the only way to the west and south, and to fight to the death.
At this time, Deng Cui's subordinates had gathered tens of thousands of soldiers, known as 100,000, and made a decisive battle. However, at the last moment, they turned their direction and rushed to the hometown of the gods and ghosts.
On the way, Deng Cui explained his plan to Han Xi, "Our army is small and scattered. If we lose, we will collapse, so we can't fight. You said that the hometown of gods and ghosts is guarded by heavy troops. I guess this heavy army must have gone south to support other cities. , let's go around, just to make a void."
"Guess the general?"
"Are you guessing me or I guessing you when it comes to fighting? Soldiers don't tire of cheating. Those who guess right win, and those who guess wrong are finished. Thousands of Chu troops have gone deep into the enemy's territory. What else can they do except kick down some rain and snowflakes? If we have to do it, we must be ruthless, and we must scare the ghosts and ghosts away, and then we can go back to Da Chu and ask His Majesty for credit."
In front of Deng Cui, Han Xi and others were only dumbfounded.
"Well, I don't know if my sister has given birth to a prince. I also hope that my nephew will become an emperor in the future."
The soldiers were apprehensive, but they had no choice but to gallop with General Deng.
Deng Cui guessed right.
The Chu army has always used the strategy of attacking the east and attacking the west. The enemy army has long been accustomed to it. When they found out that the Chu army was going north, they still thought it was a trick to lure the enemy, so they did not pursue it with all their strength. Surrounded by the Chu army, and then regained lost ground.
The two armies going north and south passed by each other, and they were only a few dozen miles apart recently, but they didn't know each other. Deng Cui still didn't send scouts to inquire about news in advance, and only believed in his own "guessing."
"The cities are shaken, and normal people will send heavy troops to suppress them, so let's respond in an abnormal way." Deng Cui occasionally made a few more explanations, but he couldn't make his soldiers feel at ease.
In the end, it was a big victory that made everyone convince Deng Cui.
The Chu army captured the hometown of the god and ghost Da Chanyu and set fire to everything that could be burned. The soldiers in the army had been oppressed for a long time and had deep hatred. After obtaining the acquiescence of the Chu army, they carried out many massacres. Kill all the clansmen left behind by the gods and ghosts.
Only very few survived.
Deng Cui left behind a beautiful girl. Although this woman did not have a noble name, she was rumored to be the favorite person of the gods and ghosts. Because of the cold, she did not go to the east with the army, and ended up in the hands of the generals of Chu.
On the day that Meiji was brought into the army, Han Xi made a special trip to persuade her.
Deng Cui said with a smile: "Follow the local customs, every time a god and a ghost seize a city, they must marry the daughter of a local noble, so this woman is not a local, and she is also a poor person who was taken away. And Mr. Han has not also married a local. Woman? Whoever you fancy in the city can leave."
Han Xi couldn't persuade Deng Cui, but he didn't want any beautiful women, and urged the Chu army not to participate in massacres and robberies. As for soldiers from other countries, he couldn't control them, and he didn't want to control them.
Although the army did not fight hard, the harvest was extremely fruitful, and the shock to the western cities was inexhaustible. Revolts came one after another, and they expelled outsiders in response to the Chu army.
Deng Cui led his army south again, and encountered an enemy army by a river with a very long name. At this time, the strength of the two sides was almost the same. Hard battle.
On the battlefield, Deng Cui was nothing special. It all depended on the abilities of the soldiers under his command. It goes without saying that the Chu army would have nowhere to escape if they lost the battle. The clansmen who seized a large number of beauties and treasures also had nowhere to go.
The fighting lasted a whole day, and the enemy was defeated by night.
Deng Cui didn't even supervise the battle, and hid in the tent to learn her native language from Meiji. When the news of the victory came, he only replied "I know", but he still refused to come out to meet the generals.
Deng Cui is such a person. All the soldiers under his command have doubts about his ability, but they are in awe. Sometimes I don't like to choose.
But the good luck of the "Pride of Heaven" also runs out.
What happened next was a mystery, one that still haunts many people years later.
General Deng Cui was assassinated.
No one knew why, when Mei Ji was taken away, she didn't show rejection or disgust, she seemed to be a little happy, and she was like glue with Deng Cui along the way, but on the night of the victory, she killed the person next to her.
No one knew what happened. The next morning, the soldiers came to invite Deng Cui, but they didn't get a response several times. They finally felt that something was wrong and broke into the tent. dyed red.
Miki was holding the dagger, shivering on one side.
The angry soldiers chopped Meiji into flesh on the spot, but still worried, they killed all the women who had been kidnapped from the camp, leaving no one behind.
Only later did someone ask whether the person who killed General Deng was Mei Ji? Maybe she was just terrified, the murderer was someone else.
The soldiers in the army immediately became suspicious of each other.
The good situation is gone. Han Xi is a royal relative and became the commander of the Chu army. After careful consideration, he felt that he had no ability to lead everyone, let alone go all the way south. After discussing with the soldiers of the Chu army, he decided to retreat to the big Chu. Externally, they declared that they were going to expedition.
The soldiers of various countries were divided into many armies, each with his own ideas, but without exception, they were all under the banner of Da Chu and Deng Cui.
Deng Cui's heart was taken out and taken away by the Chu army, and his body was handed over to an alien army. They had to go all the way south to fulfill General Deng's wish to see the sea.
Han Xi was a literati, and he always remembered everything on the way. He planned to present it to the emperor after returning to China, but when it came to the general Deng Cui, he couldn't describe it. He finally wrote a few words:
General Deng is very personable.