The sky has begun to get dark, but there is still an army. The soldiers hold torches and are hurriedly marching along the Luoshui coast in the direction of Luoyang.
There is no doubt that this army is the 5,000 Jizhou Army led by Liu Jian himself! They rushed to Luoyang at night.
In order to seize the time to march into the army, Liu Jian has been marching day and night in the past few days, rushing on the road.
In fact, for ancient soldiers, marching at night was a risky move. For soldiers, if it was not absolutely necessary, they should try not to march at night.
Unlike later generations, there were no street lights in ancient times.
Once it's dark, people's field of vision is extremely limited.
When marching in the wilderness, you only rely on the torch in your hand and your eyesight to judge the distance.
Getting lost, accidentally falling into the water, even straying into the quagmire, being attacked by wild beasts, or being separated from the team. These emergencies are extremely fatal for night marches.
However, from another aspect, training the army's night movement ability can also greatly improve the overall quality of the army.
Therefore, Liu Jian also planned to take this opportunity to train the Jizhou Army's overall night marching capabilities.
And there's not just one body.
Liu Jian's spirit suddenly shook. He quickly turned his head, looked into the river, and shouted loudly: "Go and help!"
Zhao Yun immediately climbed the mountain and dismounted, and then summoned a group of soldiers to intercept the corpses floating down from the upstream at the shallows downstream of Luoshui River.
Liu Jian passed the torch in the direction Zhao Yun was pointing, and saw the corpses floating downstream from the upper reaches of Luoshui River.
Liu Jian got off his horse and stood on the shore to patrol.
Liu Jian raised his eyebrows slightly, and then ordered the soldiers: "Take off your pants."
"ah?"
Not long after, the sound of horse hooves was suddenly heard, and Zhang Fei was seen riding the Youzhou Wuzui Black Cavalry, turning back from the front and coming to Liu Jian's side.
As expected, they were all eunuchs in the palace.
Liu Jian frowned and said: "For no reason, how come there are so many dead people dressed in luxurious clothes? It must be related to the Luoyang incident. Let's stop for a moment and observe. There will be no harm. There is no need to go overboard in doing things.
In the rush for quick success, sometimes it’s better to take it slow.”
Then, he hurriedly said to the people next to him: "Everyone spread out, everyone spread out!"
Zhang Fei smacked his lips behind him and sighed: "Good guy, it's really not easy to survive in such a big water!"
Zhang Fei smashed his mouth and said nothing.
Thinking of this, Liu Jian immediately ordered Zhang Fei: "Yide, go and tell Zhang He and Gao Lan to march quickly and go straight to Luoyang. However, don't go to Luoyang City yet. Let the vanguard army search along Luoshui first.
See if you can find it..."
In fact, he felt in his heart that this was really unnecessary.
Liu Jian pointed to the corpses that were fished out and said, "Look!"
From this point of view, although we don’t know the exact extent of the chaos in Luoyang City at the moment... there is no doubt that Luoyang City is indeed in chaos.
Liu Xie stood up from Liu Jian's arms, wiped his tears and said: "Emperor's sister-in-law, this is the Jizhou shepherd personally appointed by the late emperor. She was also a prominent figure in Luoyang in the past. She is the uncle of the widow and the emperor. Liu Jian
Liu Deran!"
Before Liu Jian finished speaking, he suddenly heard someone shouting loudly in the river: "Come on, come on and help! There are living people here, there are living people!"
Not long after, Zhao Yun had already commanded the soldiers to intercept some corpses ashore and placed them in front of Liu Jian.
What does this mean?
"Tear off their pants!"
"Here!"
After pulling off the pants of several dead people, Liu Jian determined their identities.
"It turns out to be His Highness. Your Majesty, Liu Jian, would like to pay my respects to His Highness!"
Liu Jian did the same thing to the girl again. Although it took a little longer, he finally revived the girl.
He made some plans and suddenly understood something in his mind.
Then, he came to the boy first and squeezed his chest hard.
However, looking at their clothes, they are no different from those worn by the Huangmen in the palace.
I don’t know anyone. I don’t know any of them.
"Let the three armies take a break!" Liu Jian immediately gave the order.
Although it is dangerous, from another perspective, it is also military training!
It can not only train the combat capabilities of individual soldiers, but also train the overall quality of the army.
"Thank you, uncle, for saving me!"
Liu Jian stepped back and glanced back and forth at the two children. Finally, he looked at the boy and saluted him: "Your Majesty, do you still remember me? I once had a chance encounter with the king in the late emperor's palace.
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"Here!"
Zhang Fei squinted his eyes and said curiously: "What's so interesting about this? They're just dead people!"
Immediately afterwards, Liu Xie was seen crying and threw himself into Liu Jian's arms, crying bitterly: "Uncle Emperor! You are finally here!"
At this moment, Zhang Rang suddenly coughed heavily, turned his head and spit out a large mouthful of river water, and then slowly woke up.
Although it was pitch dark and it was difficult to see clearly, Liu Jian was still able to see clearly that the corpses that were still bleeding seemed to be wearing luxurious clothes and were not ordinary common people.
The girl on the side was a little frightened just now, but now seeing the boy like this, she whispered: "You are also a member of the Han family?"
"Brother! Zhang He and Gao Lan's vanguard troops have stopped. I'm coming over to see why brother stopped suddenly!"
Liu Jian took the torch and first looked at the adult's face, and was suddenly shocked.
River water continued to spurt out of the boy's mouth, and then he went to give the boy artificial respiration. Finally, the boy's eyes finally slowly opened.
A group of soldiers and horses were rushing forward when they suddenly heard Zhao Yun shouting to Liu Jian: "Your Majesty, what do you think that is?"
The soldiers did not react for a moment.
Then, he looked at Zhao Yun and said: "Zilong, immediately arrange for people to intercept these corpses at the shoal. Intercept as many as possible. I want to see if there is anyone I know."
The sergeants around Liu Jian went into the water one after another, and after a while, they dragged three people ashore.
After the girl woke up, she immediately resisted and hurriedly got up and hid aside.
Liu Jian reached out and took the torch from a soldier next to him, then squatted down and carefully observed their clothes.
However, since it was Liu Jian's order, it was better to obey it.
Although the other party is a child, it is still a bit embarrassing to give her artificial respiration by myself, but I have to obey the authority and save people's lives, so I don't care about much at the moment.
All three of them were dying at the moment, an adult and two children, especially those two, a boy and a girl, both dressed in luxurious clothes, very leisurely.
King Chenliu and Liu Xie looked at Liu Jian carefully for a while and suddenly shouted: "Uncle!"
A knight next to him handed over a torch.
Tang Ji looked happy when she heard this, and her nervous look just now disappeared.
Liu Jian looked at Zhang Rang with a half-smile but not a smile, and said: "Servant Zhongchang, do we meet again? There is no place in life where we don't meet! Minister Zhongchang is really lucky!"
Zhang Rang looked at the speaker with erratic eyes, but he didn't react at first.
But then, he suddenly screamed strangely and exclaimed:
"Liu Deran!"
"Servant Zhongchang, it's been a long time. I never thought we would be alive to see each other again. How good is Mr. Zhongchang?"