Guo Jingke didn't know whether he had completed the task instructed by the two leaders. He didn't even know what he was doing and whose person he belonged to?
You must know that his business is originally in Hebei, mainly horse trading... But similar to Chao Ke, this kind of gray business often requires more straightforward personal attachment, so for him, Xiao Guo, the leader, always has to deal with Youzhou
A military leader over there and Xu Dalang from Henan tried to make each other smaller.
It is precisely because of this that Xu Dalang was led into the group hastily.
Since he joined the gang with Xu Dalang, and Xu Dalang was also a member of Li Shu, the leader on the left, he was naturally not the same person as Mr. Zhang Sanye, the leader on the right. However, when they got off the boat, the two leaders talked about the matter face to face and casually mentioned it.
Someone who was familiar with the area needed to come to Qinghe to do a small job, so Guo Jingke took the job.
To be honest, this group joined the group in a hurry, and the activities were also in a hurry. From the beginning to the end, there was a feeling of being pushed away... In this case, the righteousness of An Tianxia is just a feeling of excitement on the day of joining the group.
, I forgot about it even before I crossed the river; after receiving the summons, I had to lure Zhang Jinheng to fight on the podium, and after joining the gang, I saw Zhang Jinheng killing people indiscriminately and made a random deal with it; on the contrary, Zhang Jinheng later
He was rewarded with many gold and silver utensils, which somewhat touched Mr. Guo, who was used to being poor.
Come and go in the wind and rain, sell horses and join gangs, isn't this what you want?
Of course, considering Zhang Jinsheng's weird appearance after the rebellion, Xu Dalang's prestige, and the pretentiousness of the two leaders, he did not forget to send a message to the visitor, asking people to tell Zhang who didn't know where he was.
The leader said that thanks to the efforts of Guo Jingke, Zhang Jinheng finally went to the podium.
Thinking about it, it was a great achievement.
However, Guo Jingke soon realized that at least his summons itself was meaningless... because once Zhang Jinscale made up his mind, he set off quickly, and the movement was so big that no one needed to summon him.
"What's that?"
In front of the green and yellow fields, the autumn wind blew slightly. Guo Jingke, who was waiting in the open space outside the city with his two hundred cavalry, was at a loss for a moment, because just when everyone was waiting for Zhang Jinscale to appear, someone actually carried out a pile of similar things from the city gate.
Existences such as shoulder carriages are also commonly known as double lifts.
"That's the big boss's car." Someone who had followed Zhang Jincheng for a long time and was familiar with Guo Jingke immediately came to explain.
Guo Jingke thought for a moment on the horse, but couldn't help scratching his helmet: "It's just a lift, why do we need so many? Can't just one be enough? Besides, how can riding a lift be as convenient as riding a horse?"
"Leader Guo has lost his sight," the acquaintance said with emotion, stroking the scar on his face. "I learned this from the emperor. Didn't the emperor have some kind of "Guanfengxingchao"? It is said that it was made up of thousands of carts.
A large cart with wheels, loaded with hundreds of beauties and other things, eating, drinking, sleeping and sleeping on it. Although this big boss did not dare to be like the emperor, he used dozens of carriers to make one big carrier, which also showed that
Those who are capable..."
Guo Jingke was confused for a moment, but soon he realized what was going on.
More than a dozen shoulder carts... also known as lifts... After they were taken out, they immediately started to join together with iron rods and connected with ropes, and then quickly pieced them together to form a huge square chain of lifts... lifts
The person is stuck in the hole and can still move, but there is a large gap of more than ten feet in diameter in the middle of the lift.
At this time, someone again lifted out a huge square wooden couch, which happened to be stuck in the gap in the middle of the lift.
Immediately, dozens of laborers worked together to lift the huge chain lift, while several oxen- and horse-powered four-wheel carts from both sides quickly arrived and were packed around the lift.
At this point, a strange, but indeed spectacular, half-lift, half-car giant vehicle has been successfully assembled.
Sometimes, you have to admit some people's imagination.
It was only at this time that Chief Zhang Jin scale and Zhang Da came out of the city in full attire, with their heads high and chest high, and then they stepped on people's backs majestically and boarded the car. The attendants followed and raised umbrellas on top.
Before this was over, another personal soldier of leader Zhang Da came over and asked all the leaders to come forward to say hello.
Guo Jingke looked in a daze and did not dare to neglect at this time. He hurried over with dozens of other leaders and bowed his head half-kneeling to greet Zhang Jinscale where Da Ma Jin Dao was sitting. Then he heard a promise from above and stood up in a hurry.
He was quickly dragged to the side of the road by an acquaintance.
At this time, I heard the shouts of the laborers and the coachmen in unison, and saw the cattle and horses on all sides moving first, with the help of people in the middle, and the huge carriage slowly started to move.
"Chief Guo, stop looking." After the car had passed a hundred steps, Guo Jingke was still in a daze, and the scarred leader surnamed Wang next to him immediately urged him. "This is the majesty of a big leader. The two of us brought it."
It's the cavalry, so hurry up and lead people around to clear the way for the big leader."
Guo Jingke agreed and set off with the other party, but he suppressed some thoughts in his heart. He actually wanted to ask everyone else, is this kind of thing really majestic? Don't you know whether it is ugly or handsome? The emperor is sitting here
?
Moreover, half of the county, with forty or fifty thousand people, is nothing. Isn’t the county guard riding a horse and riding a carriage? Isn’t that Mr. Zhang also a person who abandoned the county guard? He even led the mule off the boat by himself.
After getting on the horse and passing by the wings, Guo Jingke glanced at the strange car again, and vaguely remembered that at this time last year, he came from the north to sell horses, and he seemed to be drinking with Zhang Jinscale. At that time, the other party was drinking
Finally, he easily subdued a fierce horse that vaguely resembled a dragon. It looked majestic and heroic... So, he couldn't understand why he had changed into a different person after only one year.
Could it be that he killed too many people and was cursed by the three radiances and four emperors?
At this thought, Guo Jingke could only hurry up and move forward in a hurry, breaking away from the car and the old days that made him feel uncomfortable.
But no matter what, the tens of thousands of troops finally rolled towards the east.
However, even though I had brought dry food for more than ten days and did not have any extra family members or children, it felt like I was traveling lightly, but if I really wanted to march, there would be countless troubles...
For example, if you have the ability to set up a camp, who in the Wei Dynasty has not been recruited to be a civil servant? But at most you can dig a hole and set up a fence... In fact, there are very few fences, because ropes are precious and once used
If you go out, it will be stolen by people from the camp next door, so the rearguard unit responsible for recycling will complain every day.
There are also avant-garde and flankers, but except for the two cavalry in front, most of the troops will lose their sense of direction when walking, and the speeds of the various units are inconsistent with each other. When the left guard walks to the middle, the rearguard will find that there is an extra unit behind him.
It's all commonplace.
There are also military disciplinary units, including Chief Zhang Da's personal troops, but the final result of inspections often depends on the amount of bribes collected.
There are countless cases of collective diarrhea, mutual accusations of digging cesspits, blocking marches, hiding concubines and prostitutes, and so on.
Under such circumstances, within two or three days, Guo Jingke, who had always been smart, vaguely realized something... or roughly understood why Zhang Jinscale made the choices he did in some matters.
To put it bluntly, although Zhang Jinscale is the big leader, he does not have the ability to carefully manage the people below him. He can only control the entire army by setting up some leaders.
The leader leading a group of people is destined to form gangs and gangs based on geographical location and family ties. Once a gang is formed, it will first become extremely united internally, and then fight against each other.
The conflict between them is very serious.
Under this situation, Zhang Jinscale, who had no idea what was going on below, could only continue to use various methods to strengthen and assert his authority. This was why he killed people, he used strange and majestic cars for this, and he forced the leaders to treat him ritually.
It is also for this that I salute, and it is also for this that I have to gather the leaders for military discussions every morning and evening even if there is nothing to do.
Thinking of this, Guo Jingke felt a little weird about Chief Zhang. He began to feel that this old leader was not so unreasonable.
"correct!"
This morning's routine breakfast military meeting was about to end. Zhang Jinscale, who was sitting on the huge square couch, thought for a moment and suddenly put down what he was holding and raised his head. "I have something to say... This is not the ground."
Will the crops be harvested in another month? They will also be our food by then, so I thought about it, we shouldn’t have trampled on them so randomly during the march... What a pity."
The leaders nodded one after another, and this time many people recognized it from the bottom of their hearts, because the vast majority of people have access to farming, no matter what this "will also be our food by then" is, it can be protected
The crops that are about to mature are really in line with everyone’s perception.
Guo Jingke is one of them.
"Then, from today onwards, when you go back and march, you must be more careful and follow the official path." Zhang Jinscale continued to give casual instructions. "Whoever tramples on the crops will have his head chopped off... don't take my head off."
Military law treats it as nothing, but I have always made clear rewards and punishments."
Upon hearing this, the leaders were excited and immediately raised their voices in agreement.
To put it bluntly, when leader Zhang kills people, he really doesn’t care... He usually says he wants to kill, so if something happens, he will definitely kill, otherwise he will feel that he will be looked down upon by others... And this matter has just been reported
If you bring it up, you are likely to be arrested.
"That's good, let's all wait outside!" Upon seeing this, Leader Zhang Da seemed to be in a slightly better mood, so he simply signaled. "The weather is good today, let's set off early..."
Naturally, everyone was speechless, and immediately put down their breakfast, swarmed out, and waited in front of the door.
After a while, the huge car was naturally formed, and then Zhang Jinheng boarded the car and accepted the procrastination of all the big leaders who were half-kneeling and saluting.
After finally struggling, the leaders returned to their positions and hurriedly set off with their respective troops. Guo Jingke led his horse dealer cavalry ahead as usual, but half an hour later, he suddenly met another man under the bright morning sun.
A small group of cavalry.
There were not many people in this group, not more than ten riders, but the leader was someone he knew.
"Leader Guo."
At the foot of the hill, Niu Da, who had been waiting for a long time, took the lead and walked out alone a hundred steps away.
"Ou leader." Guo Jingke was inexplicably excited, but he still hurried forward to meet the other party. "Can you give me some advice?"
"Thank you, Leader Guo." Niuda whispered as the two horses crossed each other. "Things are ready. Starting from Lujiao Pass in front, it is the salt pond of Bashili Douzigang. We will start from there. Before noon today,
You must break away from Zhang Jinsheng's brigade, enter Lujiao Pass first, and join the army... to prevent accidental damage... By the way, you must also lure in another cavalry team as much as possible and eat them first."
"I know." Guo Jingke responded seriously, and then, as if by some strange coincidence, he lowered his voice and told all of his troops out. "But I still have a dozen brothers who were beaten by Zhang Jinscale and placed behind the Chinese army.
I'll ride over alone first, give them instructions and let them run away from behind, and then come back to guide them... I won't miss anything."
Niu Da glanced at the other party and did not have the slightest doubt: "Be careful. After all, Zhang Jinscale has tens of thousands of soldiers. The ordnance is all thrown away by the imperial court. There is no shortage of it. We have few people. If one of us is not good, we will be trapped."
...Forget it, I'll wait for you behind Lujiao Pass. There's a red flag on the post, so you won't miss it."
Guo Jingke nodded repeatedly.
In this way, the two sides completed the meeting. Niu Da led a dozen of his cavalry to gallop ahead, while Guo Jingke, after hesitating for a moment, only asked his deputy to lead the troops slowly ahead, and then galloped towards the Chinese army alone.
By coincidence, when he arrived at the Chinese army's "car", Zhang Jinsheng was killing people.
More than a dozen civilian men were pushed down by a small river ditch, crying for mercy and bursting into tears, but without delay, the soldiers stabbed them one by one, and then beheaded them in a routine demonstration.
"what happened?"
Guo Jingke casually asked an officer of Zhang Jinsheng's personal soldiers who was responsible for the execution.
When the officer saw that it was Guo Jingke, he was polite: "Master Guo, don't worry, these warriors are stupid and have violated military law and trampled the crops..."
Guo Jingke nodded repeatedly, ignored it, and continued to walk towards the huge car... In fact, if it weren't for today's military order that tramples on the crops to pay for life, his leader Guo might not have chosen to go this way... This matter made
He vaguely felt that even if this old friend was not a good person, he had not killed anyone and turned him into a lunatic. Coupled with the previous reward, he decided to come over as a proper reminder.
It's not about betraying anyone, but about repaying this kindness. As long as Zhang Jinscale knows that a serious enemy is coming to attack him.
However, after walking only a few steps, under the sun, Guo Jingke suddenly stopped his horse, because he clearly saw that the car did not stop there on its own initiative, but was leaning over in the crop field next to the river... Looking back again, he saw
It was found that the feet of those laborers begging for mercy were mostly wet and muddy... In other words, it was this vehicle that trampled the crops, and it was the laborers of this vehicle who died to maintain military law.
The reason why the whole car trampled on the crops was undoubtedly because my feet got wet when crossing the river, and I had to carry such a thing, which was impossible to support.
Guo Jingke didn't read much and didn't know what words to use to describe his weird mood at the moment.
At this time, Zhang Jinscale, who was still sitting on the huge couch in his car, raised his hand and shouted from a distance:
"Xiao Guo, why are you here? Is there anything going on ahead?"
"Yes." Guo Jingke immediately dismounted, bowed down from a distance, then raised his head and informed respectfully. "The cavalry went forward and found that Douzigang was a dozen miles away... The big leader is a local, and he should know that this place is also salty.
The lake is made up of low hills and rivers, and there must be a lot of broken soldiers and bandits hiding in it... I don't know how to deal with it, so I came here and asked the big boss."
"It is true that Douzigang is a bit troublesome... In fact, if it were not far away from home, I would have wanted to come to Douzigang, but Douzigang is also poor." Zhang Jinscale sighed slightly irritably. "That's good, let's not leave.
To Douzigang, you should take the official road to the north of Douzigang. Go and tell Wang Dashen and pass on my order. We can go to the south to take cover under Douzigang. Anyone who dares to come down from there and approach us will be killed...
…This time, just grab the food from the podium and leave, don’t do any unnecessary things.”
"I know, I know." Guo Jingke saluted respectfully on the ground, then immediately got on his horse and fled away from the hanging heads.
In the morning of that day, after returning, Guo Jingke led his cavalry into the abandoned Lujiao Pass, entered Douzigang, which stretched for dozens of miles, and met Niuda.
Immediately, Wang Dasc, the leader of another Zhang Jinscale vanguard force who received Guo Jingke's message, also led his troops into Lujiao Pass without any precautions two-quarters of an hour later, and followed Guo Jingke's cavalry from a distance behind the pass and easily crossed.
There are several creeks and swamps.
Then, he was ambushed by soldiers and horses several times his own in a narrow area behind a hill. In just two quarters of an hour, the whole group collapsed. A small number of the three hundred cavalrymen, a mixture of donkeys and horses, died in the battle.
, most people chose to surrender to the opponent's leader, a young man named Cheng Mingqi.
After the battle, as the flag signal was played, Cheng Zhili, who was also ambushing in Douzigang, led eight hundred cavalry to attack. By bypassing and flanking, they conducted a typical mid-range cavalry raid, and then attacked the enemy who had just set off.
, Zhang Jinsheng's rear guard was preparing to cross a small river ditch, and succeeded easily, burning all the camping supplies that had just been collected in the camp.
The battle suddenly started.
It was only then that Zhang Jinsheng, who had already marched to the official road on the side of Douzigang, realized that Xiao Guo's warning was correct. The thieves in Douzigang might be a trouble, and the journey ahead might be a bit difficult.