Book 47 Chapter 7 – Timidity In The Face Of Battle (1/2)
Book 47 Chapter 7 – Ti entered Cijian city and cli into the distance froher elevation to observe the situation on Li shi+ shi+chong was accoenerals Chen Zhilue, Guo Shancai, Ba Yegang, Zhang Zhi, Di Feng, Song Mengqiu, and Li Mi’s forxin, and Yu Yuanzhen But Yang Gongqing was not one of the’s face bloomed with a smile; he said, “Shaoshuai, quickly co to the other high-ranking military officers, he said, “Zhen would like to speak with Shaoshuai in private”
The generalsshi+chong alone on the city gate tower
Kou Zhong cae in his heart was to ask hijiao, but in the end he suppressed this i have for ’s countenance turned grave, he spoke heavily, “Li shi+e, he came a solid three days earlier thanpro the initiative to attack, when our main forces arrived, ould have been attacked by hiht not decide victory or defeat just yet, but it could surely sway our troops’ h the enemy has nearly twenty thousand men more than us, but we do have a city wall that can help us in defense, so the situation is stillXuanying nearby to be a hindrance, the mood of the conversation between the two men was fairly harmonious, they were both men who knew soldiers, so they could dispense with a lot of unnecessary anger and argu did not respond, because he kneang shi+chong was not done yet wang shi+chong pondered silently for a moment, he lowered his voice and said, “Where did the other fifty thousandsaid, “I have so would listen”
wang shi+chong turned his head to look at hi s is su was co said, “Secret conversation between the two of you, brothers, even if you won’t telltranquil and calh it was a secret conversation, it is very closely related with Shengshang Ziling toldevil in the secular world, his objective is that I will not leave Luoyang alive, and that Li shi+ alive, so that the world will very likely beco shi+chong revealed a shocked expression, but he immediately calmed down His countenance sole said, “If Luoyang is broken, as soon as Shengshang tell Li Yuan you surrender, Li shi+le strand of hair of yours, which is due to of your relationshi+p with Shuni But Li shi+ is already fallen into Li Yuan’s hands, it could correspond ith Guanzhong, and then Dou Jiande can no longer make any move At that time Li shi+ht is really that sih, “That shi+ Zhixuan is counting his chickens before they are hatched Luoyang will not fall! Never”
Kou Zhong said, “My sincere opinion is precisely to focus on Luoyang defense and whether or not going out to attack If Shengshang could throw allattention to how Li shi+holds and ic cities, and defend Cijian to the death, then there will be great opportunity to protect Luoyang”
wang shi+chong spoke heavily, “Do you know Li shi+ replied, “That is not difficult to guess at all In addition to theto attack Cijian, Li shi+th four ways, including theback to Luo The other three ways are simply harass’swould not dare to reduce theIt’s difficult for the other cities’ are in the battle”
wang shi+chong’s gaze moved back toward the enemy camp far away outside the city, he muttered twice, “Return to Luo City! Return to Luo City!”
Kou Zhong said, “Now the general co as he is guarding Heyang, he could hold up our reinforcement so that we can’t advance or retreat, while on the other hand, we cannot defend Cijian The only strategy right now is to let the other cities fall, but if we can defend Cijian, Luoyang will be as steady as Mount Tai At that time it will be Li shi+min’s turn to have his feet deep in the mud, unable to advance or retreat If Li shi+min is driven back to his hometoon’t we be able to recover the lost cities back into our hands?”
wang shi+chong turned his eyes back to hian to speak, “Can we firhed and said, “I a’s question; furtherreat importance Once it’s lost, the blow on the troops’ morale is incalculable I am most afraid that there will bewill not be able to endure”
“Very well!” wang shi+chong estion, we’ll defend Cijian with all of our strength”
Casting his gaze outside the city, he spoke sloord by word, “If I handed the full power of the army to Shaoshuai for you to command, how much odds of success would Shaoshuai have?”
Hearing that, Kou Zhong was both surprised and happy, knowing that after witnessing the Tang Army’s appearance and battle array, he lost confidence, hence he felt that he needed to rely on Kou Zhong wang shi+chong ell aware that if he were in Kou Zhong’s place, today he would not have dared to fight the enemy’s main forces, which had several ti was able to, froeous position, launch an attack and win a s’s and various high-ranking military officers’ favorable i would not have spoken that sentence
Sweeping his gaze over the flickering lights fro laughed aloud and said, “Then this ti to himself irresolutely, Li shi+min said, “So be together, just by looking at your eyes, I know that you two have entirely different characters Kou Zhong see for novel experience, for adventures and excitement, for opportunities to defeat the opponent and conquer the adversaries, yet you, Ziling, stand aloof fro at horee withblankly, Xu Ziling said, “I never thought that you would see Kou Zhong like this It is true that he is a person bris, but he is not completely unreasonable, it’s just that he has his own set of views and ideals, which no one, e”
Li shi+min cheerfully said, “That is exactly what Feixuan thinks of Kou Zhong After she asked me what I think of the two of you, she then told ht of you She pointed out that unless I can defeat, even kill, Kou Zhong at Luoyang, the situation in the future will become North-South confrontation; at that time, there will be only one person who can resolved this i”
Stunned, Xu Ziling stared blankly for a moment, and then he spoke painfully, “Did she say that? Feixuan thinks too highly of me! Ay! The problem is that when the North-South confrontation takes shape, it won’t involve only Kou Zhong, one person, rather, it also i Clan and the entire southern people who support Han unification In this situation, I ahed and said, “I said the sahtforward manner She only said that when the co will be unwilling to pass on your responsibilities to others”
S said, “This is called the fairy’s heart is hard to fatho in a duel?”
Li shi+! I will tryBut if I fail, I will throw everything aside and will exhaust allQue and Kou Zhong join hands, the consequences will unbearably hard to iine”
After a short pause, he went on, “shi+ me about shi+ Zhixuan’s plot inside the Pass I’ll deal with it carefully, I will not let the crafty scoundrels prevail, so that I will not follow the Old Sui’s Yang’s trailing dust”
As Kou Zhong was stepping out the city gate, Yang Gongqing ca, “What did he say?”
Kou Zhong responded in low voice, “How about we take a walk outside the caet them warhorses The twoon the way
Ma Chang laughed and said, “Were it not for Shaoshuai keeping you co out the camp Shaoshuai should know Tian Ce Fu’s habit of repeatedly sending e the other side’s camp for a battle It is both to disturb the ene out, it would raise their prestige and glorious military prowess, but if you send the troops out of the caht fall into an ambush Ha! But this time they won’t dare to repeat this trick, si our troops disposition Offending Shaoshuai, they will have to pack their bag and leave before they finish eating”
Kou Zhong laughed aloud and said, “You, LaoGe really kno tothe horse’s butts”
After leaving the ca is really not bad; he is both brave and sche how at the moment he can still joke around with ease, it shows that he does not take life or death to heart”
Yang Gongqing said, “Thisshi+chong playing this tialloped with hiaze around to watch the situation far and near S is afraid of war!”