"Since this is what we all want, let's go to the north."
Before dawn, Wang Zhuo stood up and said to the people around him who were obviously out of breath. "When you get to the north, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce can do it. If you don't know how to do it, the original men will teach you. If you are temporarily short of food and clothing, you will be provided by the men."
, In the past, I dare not say that everyone has food to eat and everyone has clothes to wear, but as long as everyone is independent and self-reliant, they will definitely be able to support themselves, and they will never be criticized by others again!"
The fifteen team generals who followed Wang Zhuo immediately responded and shouted "Okay" in unison, while the twenty stewards from Jiangdu also followed suit.
Du Gong Niu was standing by, but his expression was actually not good-looking, because he could see clearly that in the previous decision made by raising hands, the twenty stewards in Jiangdu actually did not have any strong tendencies, and were more influenced and instigated by the people around them...
...During this process, although my own hesitant and cautious attitude was expressed, at most it was able to offset Wang Zhuo and Yu Liao, but it was unable to withstand the fifteen team generals from the north who had already taken a stand and did not take into account their own safety throughout the process.
The attitude is there to incite and incite.
Both sides were old acquaintances and knew each other well. This fierce incitement from nearly half of the people present was self-evident. In the end, a full thirty people raised their hands in favor of going north.
"What do you think, Duke Du?" At this moment, Wang Zhuo suddenly turned around and looked at Du Gong Niu, who looked unhappy.
Niu Dugong looked at each other and was silent for a while.
Not only Yu Huo on the side, but also Wang Zhuo, who seemed to have the initiative, had his heart raised in his throat.
Besides, Wang Zhuo never expected to make a decision by raising his hand... Are you kidding me? The Chamberlain here, especially Jiangdu Chamberlain, is not a gang. There is a tradition that arises when a gang is established, and this tradition also allows
They have won many battles and become stronger and stronger, so they habitually obey... Jiangdu's chamberlain here is talking about the past chamberlain rules and palace rules, and what are the past chamberlain rules?
The answer is that this group is as hierarchical as an army. What matters is often seniority and status. It adopts a system similar to that of a large family. "Men" suppress women, superiors suppress subordinates, and elders suppress younger ones. Only when there is no absolute leader
A certain degree of internal high-level democracy will be enabled only under the circumstances of the leader. However, now that Governor Niu is still here, with his cultivation, qualifications, and identity, he is naturally the leader of this group.
Duke Niu disagrees, everything is nonsense!
Then why does Wang Zhuo still engage in this act of raising his hands? Why does he still want the people below to engage in this incitement method?
The answer is very simple. This hand is raised to show Duke Niu. Wang Zhuo is using this method to express the presence of the inner servants to Duke Niu... After all, the rope of your Duke Niu should not only be tied to it.
Those who are chained to the men of Jiangdu should also be chained to the men of the chamberlain.
The so-called men who serve in the chamberlain are also men!
As long as Duke Niu ties his rope to all the servants fairly, when the servants in Jiangdu lack internal motivation, the servant army can lead Niu Duke to change direction.
This is also the reason why Wang Zhuo took the risk even though Zhang Xing gave him sufficiently loose conditions and Wang Zhuo was determined to stay here.
Not only did he have to carry out the so-called gang's tasks, not only did he need to respond to Chishiro, not only did he want to persuade Lord Niu not to intervene in the war, he also had more on his mind, counting on the fact that Lord Niu had one of the internal servants tied to his heart. Wang Zhuo also has the men of Jiangdu tied to his heart!
The two looked at each other for a while. Although Wang Zhuo was nervous, he did not give in at all. The originally exciting emotions in the building quickly cooled down. Almost everyone noticed the tit-for-tat confrontation between the two.
After noticing, among the fifteen team generals, some people gradually wanted to stand up.
At this moment, Duke Niu turned his eyes to these people, and then suddenly smiled: "Since everyone wants to go north, then go ahead. I am an old man who has nothing to do with you. If I don't go with you, why don't I go with you?" What can we do? There is only one thing left..."
After saying this, Duke Niu also became inexplicably depressed.
Wang and Yu both looked at each other in awe.
Yu Liao was even more impatient: "Master Governor, please speak."
"The Wei Dynasty is actually dead. We actually... have gone our own way a long time ago, but no matter what, the Empress Dowager did not behave immorally. The new emperor, who was originally King Zhao, is just a child. , who grew up in Jiangdu, there is nothing wrong with them... We can't treat them as if they are some exotic goods." Niu Dugong took it seriously.
Yu Liao quickly went to see Wang Zhuo.
The latter hesitated for a moment and gave an answer: "Governor, what I mean is that it is best for us to just move forward and run away when we find an opportunity. We don't care what happens to the Queen Mother and the Emperor! Don't take the initiative. Play with them, and don't change your actions just because they are in danger...because if something goes wrong next, it's not something we can do, and we have to keep our families safe first."
Everyone nodded, but some were hesitant.
At this time, without waiting for Governor Niu to speak openly, Wang Zhuo continued: "However, I can guarantee one thing, that is, there was a real trouble, and then the Queen Mother and the Emperor were kidnapped to the gang's territory, but Chief Zhang was reasonable. We should break up with him and try our best to make the Queen Mother and Her Majesty look decent."
When Duke Niu heard this, he nodded: "That's exactly what it means, that's what it means... Just say this... Just do it."
At this time, Wang and Yu were not overjoyed, but just relieved.
At dawn the next day, that is, the sixth day of May, the main force of the Forbidden Army lingering in Huankou Town also began to set off... A 6,000-strong Forbidden Army led by Zhang Qianda and another general, who are now quite trusted. There are more than two thousand Zhishi troops led by Chishiro, as well as Wang Dugong and his two thousand internal servants who have just come over and insist on seeing Niu Du Gong first, plus the young emperor, the empress dowager, Niu Du Gong, Jiangdu internal servants and the palace. People, civil and military officials.
In addition, there was General Zhao Xingmi, but he was the only one who came with the internal servants.
The rain didn't stop.
Of course, in this season, it doesn't make sense to stop raining for a while, because the sun won't come out, and there is mud and water everywhere on the road. It will be a trouble if your feet or wheels get stuck in it, no matter what material it is made of
The clothes all look as if they have just been washed, with just a pinch of water, not to mention, any items that have been left unoccupied for a while will magically grow hair in just a night or two.
This doesn't count, because they are at the end of the entire main force, and they have to go through more and more troublesome things. It's okay that the road is muddy. Anyway, it's just a little bit of mud. The key is that now the mud is mixed with a lot of human and animal excrement.
, some corpses of frogs, earthworms and the like are also common, so that the moist air that should be fresh is filled with a faintly nauseating smell.
But this is still nothing. The dirt in the mud plus the pieces of armor, wooden spikes, and even blades left and discarded by the soldiers before, are what makes people tremble with fear, what is called paying the price of their lives in order to rush on the road.
Therefore, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor, including the palace staff, most of the chamberlains, and officials, were originally planning to continue sailing... According to the plan, they would continue walking along the Huan River for a few days, and when they arrived at the southernmost point of Liang County,
Then break away from the ship and head westward by land to the Huaixi area, and then go north to Dongdu from there.
This was a route that had been planned as early as Jiangdu, and the front was relatively smooth (the obstacles were mainly political and military issues), but who would have thought that, slowly and slowly, this road itself would be so difficult to walk.
Woolen cloth?
If nothing else, I should be the first to sail against the current, but it requires a tracker.
"So, are Your Majesty and the Queen Mother going to take a boat or a car?" In the May rain, Wang Zhuo stood at the harbor at the entrance of the town, his expression gloomy. When he saw Zhao Xingmi appear, his tone became even more impatient. "Please General Zhao, please settle it quickly.
, I’m going to see the Queen Mother and Your Majesty, and we’ll set off immediately.”
Zhao Xingmi, who had just walked over, took a deep breath when he heard this. He already regretted following him yesterday... It was not because of Wang Zhuo's dream of returning to the time when the governor of Beiya was in the Eastern Capital, but because of the question he asked.
It is indeed a problem!
And when faced with this problem, Wang Zhuo could just sit back and watch, but he, the spokesperson of the Sima family and the core of the coup, had to intervene.
"Wang Du Gong." Zhao Xingmi said bravely. "I asked. It is said that it was possible to go boating on Huanshui during the plum rain season, but they were scattered merchants. Now that the army has passed by, the roads are broken. If you want to go
It is really difficult for such a large fleet...and it is really impossible to find and have no time to find so many trackers, unless all the chamberlains are allowed to get off the boat to pull the trackers..."
"Then you go talk to Mr. Niu." Wang Zhuo interrupted him directly with his hands behind his back. "What are you talking to me about? Our internal servant army battalion is a regular battalion. Now that we are here, we are also soldiers. We don't do anything.
.”
After saying that, he turned his head away.
"That would be troublesome." Zhao Xingmi was extremely helpless. "Those servants in Jiangdu can't pull the ship at all..."
Wang Zhuo simply remained silent.
Zhao Xingmi became increasingly helpless: "In this case, we can only explain it clearly to His Majesty and the Queen Mother, and then invite them to get in the car."
"Then hurry up, it's your business anyway." Wang Zhuo became more and more impatient. "Prime Minister Sima entrusted the rear army to you, and you, Zhao Xingmi, are dragging your feet like this?"
Zhao Xingmi finally got angry, but after he got angry, he realized that it was useless to lose his temper with the person in front of him, because he did not have the means to suppress the opponent at the moment... He had it before. When he just surrendered, two thousand People were crammed into tens of thousands of the main army, and they were nothing. They could be flattened or rounded at will. Otherwise, the Wang Du Gong would not have been so cautious about Sima Huada. He almost burst into tears and said that he only wanted to gather in the former palace. Partner; I also have a few ways to deal with Duke Niu, because Duke Niu himself needs respect, but the servant of Jiangdu below is typically powerless and can always be bullied.
But now, Wang Zhuo and Niu Dugong have joined together, and the internal servants and Jiangdu internal servants have merged together. They have both high-end combat power and serious organic troops, and they also have control of some supplies. This is a bit troublesome. .
Vaguely, Zhao Xingmi seemed to have figured out the other party's intention. This should be the plan of the chamberlains. He even vaguely felt that the Wang Dugong was deliberately irritating him in order to take the opportunity to have an attack, whether it was to force the chamberlains to attack him. To work as a tracker, it is better to let Jiangdu's chamberlains do it. They will immediately join forces with Governor Niu to come out to establish their authority and gain the right to decide the itinerary... A governor has been wandering for many years, although it is his luck to meet someone like Zhang San. , maybe he can survive in a pack of tigers and wolves, but why would he be so arrogant and ignorant now? He must be pretending.
At this thought, Zhao Xingmi simply sneered and left.
However, things are not that simple.
The logic of this morning's trouble is clear:
The boat ride required trackers, but the roads and embankments were soaked during the rainy season. On the one hand, it was difficult to pull the fibers, and on the other hand, trackers could not be found at the moment. So I went to find the internal servants, hoping that the internal servants would come to pull the fibers; but the internal servants refused to do it. Zhao Xingmi and other imperial guards were afraid of the now powerful chamberlain, so they had no choice but to abandon the ship and go ashore; however, was it easy to travel by land? How could there be so many vehicles to load things and people on the ship in such a hurry? Moreover, the road conditions were not easy for vehicles to travel!
So, Zhao Xingmi and Zhang Qianda, the two people who could make the decision, discussed it. Zhao Xingmi had a headache, but Zhang Qianda simply decided to throw away the useless objects! Even the ship sank!
It’s not like the imperial palace has never been thrown away. Back then, the Queen Mother and the Duke Wang had thrown away more!
Moreover, there was no need to give the thieves an advantage this time, so they simply threw them all into the Huanshui mouth to block the river.
Zhao Xingmi instinctively felt that something was wrong... After all, the Huanshui River had been dredged many times and was a major channel that connected the Central Plains, the Eastern Border, and the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers. If the Huanshui mouth was sunk, the east line of north-south transportation would be cut off, and the only way to go was through the Han River. The water was gone...so I tried my best to persuade him.
Of the two Zhao and Zhang, it was Zhao Xingmi who had a higher level of cultivation, was more effective in the coup, and was more dominant. Therefore, although Zhang Qianda felt that the other party was pretentious, he still endured it and agreed to just throw the object down and not do anything unnecessary.
So, after struggling for a long time, they finally got on the road, but they asked the young emperor and the empress dowager to get off the boat and ride in a curtained ox cart. Several older officials among the hundreds of officials also rode in the car, and the rest of the palace servants , including the low-ranking officials, all accompanied him on foot.
At first, Duke Niu still wanted to maintain royal dignity, but Zhao Xingmi said seriously that after hearing what he said, the Grand Master Governor was also helpless... If royal dignity could only be exchanged for the internal servants in the mud at this time, then there would be no It's necessary.
In this way, after struggling for a long time, they finally abandoned the ship and changed cars. When Wang Zhuo ran over to meet the Queen Mother and the Emperor in a hurry, saluted, and then officially set off, it was already noon. As a result, those few cars could not make it. Seven or eight miles away, if a car breaks down, it's okay to just throw it there. The key is that the quality of the silk on these curtain cars is so good that the roof of the car is quickly filled with water. If you shake it again, the car will be removed immediately. The person on the bed was thoroughly doused.
Several older civil servants couldn't bear it at first, so they simply pulled the curtains from the cart and hurried on in the rain. The Queen Mother was also rained on twice, and it was difficult to withdraw the curtains. The little emperor had no choice but to stand on the bullock cart. He stood up, held up the curtains on the roof of the car, and made a human-shaped umbrella handle for his grandma. Unfortunately, he was young and lacked endurance. He stood for a while before sitting down, and then did it again and again. His funny look attracted the attention of people on both sides. Look back from time to time.
In the end, Duke Niu couldn't stand it anymore, so a burst of immortal energy came over and covered the carriage from the outside, allowing the little emperor to sit down.
Not to mention, we walked all afternoon. Because the journey was too slow, we didn't arrive at the scheduled campsite when it got dark... In this environment, we didn't dare to sleep in the open in the rain, so everyone had to brave the rain and start the night journey.
However, as soon as they left, resentment came, especially from the 6,000 people of the Forbidden Army.
After spending the whole night, Zhang Qianda arrived at the camp in the middle of the night. He immediately jumped up and said that he would leave behind these burdens and the miscellaneous people and head westward on his own tomorrow. Anyway, the job of guarding the emperor should be that of Chishiro.
Zhao Xingmi came to persuade him, saying that the imperial guards and the Zhishi army were all descendants, and they could not be left alone until the end.
Zhang Qianda became increasingly frustrated and reluctantly agreed.
Zhao Xingmi had no choice but to write a letter on the spur of the moment and have someone send it to the front in advance, asking Sima Jinda to get an official Prime Minister's Warrant from Sima Huada so that he could restrain Zhang Qianda. After all, he only went to the back alone. The Imperial Guards on the side are all Zhang Qianda's men.
However, when this letter was sent, it took almost two full days for the reply warrant to arrive, that is, the evening of May 8th. At this time, the team was dragging its feet and had only walked fifty or sixty miles away from Liangjun. The turning point at the southern end is still more than half way away.
This speed is unimaginable for ordinary marching.
However, after Zhao Xingmi handed the warrant to Zhang Qianda, who was already agitated to a certain extent, he thought for a moment and actually laughed: "After this calculation, we can't walk too slowly."
Zhang Qianda took the order with one hand by the fire, but only glanced at it for a few times, then threw it into the fire in front of him, and then sneered in response: "What are you talking about here? I am not your soldier.
Don’t you feel bad?”
"It's because I know that my soldiers are actually like this, so I'm laughing." Zhao Xingmi explained slightly speechlessly. "You can figure it out. The warrant says that they have entered Liang County and there are still two days, that is,
It is estimated that tomorrow we will go to Shansang County at the south end of Qiao County to rest and recuperate. If we take Shansang as the target, we will cover about 30% of the distance in three days, but what about the other troops? How many days did it take them?"
Zhang Qianda was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and gave an answer: "The ones at the front are the fastest and will arrive in four or five days. The formal march process, based on Prime Minister Sima and others, will take seven days...
...We may take ten days...Everyone is getting slower and slower, and it is difficult to move."
"It's not a matter of slowness." Zhao Xingmi said helplessly. "I'm still worried about the gang. The troops were soaked in the rain and looked like this. If the gang comes to attack, how can we resist?"
"What the hell!" Zhang Qianda blurted out. "We get wet in the rain, but they don't get wet? Why put us at the end? Aren't we just worried about the same friction as the previous stretch of road? But look at it, these days it's so hard
Is there anyone here? To be honest, this rain is annoying to people, but people like Sanhui usually treat them equally!"
Zhao Xingmi thought for a while and nodded: "That's true."
In fact, what Zhao Xingmi was thinking was a little more complicated... He felt that the army retreating to his own city to rest and recuperate would definitely be stronger than the ghostly Forbidden Army currently.
In an optimal situation, the current Forbidden Army will definitely suffer a big loss... However, the rain is falling like this, but it basically ensures that it is impossible for the Gang to have rested and organized reinforcements to go south after May. This ensures that the Forbidden Army's
Overall strategic security.
So, the rain is indeed fair.
However, there is no need to discuss this idea in detail with Zhang Qianda, who is in a bad mood, so as to save this guy from causing trouble for no reason.
As soon as he thought about this, Zhao Xingmi stood up to say goodbye and went to inspect the camp.
To be honest, even though he had been paying attention these past few days, he would be frightened every time he explored the logistics support of the Forbidden Army:
Only three people could be assigned to one tent, and it was basically soaked. Everyone was hiding from the rain back to back to keep warm, and the sick had no choice but to suffer inside.
The pots were in good order, and one pot for ten people was rarely damaged, but there was a serious shortage of fuel. There was really nothing we could do about it, because all the houses in the towns along the way were demolished by the imperial guards, and the original fences of the camp were also dug up and burned, and the surrounding wild fields
It was all green and there was no fuel at all.
The food was in a mess, and this was the first time that Zhao Xingmi had seen this type of food loss. According to the regulations of the Wei Imperial Army, in addition to centralized logistics transportation, each person had to carry a bran bag containing about ten kilograms of ground rice.
Wheat bran, rice flour, etc., on the one hand, for the convenience of marching, and on the other hand, for the sergeants to get supplies quickly and in time. As a result, they are all soaked by the rain and then swollen. Some of them are hot and moldy from the inside, with a rancid smell. Don't be afraid.
Even if you die, you can still eat it. The most shocking thing is that there are cases where the entire bag is burst.
Awls, pliers, pliers, and drills are all fine, but flint is useless.
There are still livestock, but they have basically been reduced to beasts of burden.
Shoes are the most worn out. According to the regulations of the Eastern Capital, the Forbidden Army could have three pairs of boots, two pairs of Liuhe boots and one pair of winter boots every year. However, after four years of neglect in Jiangdu, Liuhe boots were basically only issued to officers every year, so
The army is full of old boots, and many people wear straw sandals... It's not that they don't even use cloth shoes, but the cloth shoes can't withstand the dirt roads, so the sergeants simply hang the cloth shoes on their bodies... But now Zhao Xingmi took a closer look, but
I found that it was even harder to wear straw sandals because there was no longer that kind of tough grass on the roadside!
This is not absurd at all. The Forbidden Army turned back, leaving aside the more than 20,000 people from one end to the other. The main force of the core Forbidden Army in the middle also numbered 50,000 to 60,000, plus the hundreds of officials, palace people, chamberlains, and those who were treated as sergeants.
The craftsmen, as well as the newly surrendered people, are always about the same number of 100,000 people. These people may not be walking along an official road, and they may not deliberately massacre or plunder the city, but they are enough to cause great damage to the towns and natural environment along the way.
This can be seen from the process by which Emperor Mao Ren got the nickname Mao Ren. At that time, the world was peaceful, there were warehouses everywhere, and the official roads were smooth. But tens of thousands of people walking along the heart of the world were enough to cause huge consequences.
irreversible damage, let alone the present.
But Zhao Xingmi is not a person who cares about the world. He is only worried about his own situation, and now because he is on the big ship of the Forbidden Army, he is worried about the situation of the Forbidden Army.
After exploring the camp, the veteran general of the Forbidden Army, who had just been the right guard general for more than a month, did not go to sleep directly. Instead, he stopped at the southwest side of the camp and stood there in a daze... The rain was meaningless.
After stopping for a moment, what attracted Zhao Xingmi was the scattered mist drifting from there.
He looked at the fog and could not let go of his uneasiness.
There's no way, there's really no way. The Forbidden Army seems powerful now, but others don't know it. Doesn't he know it?
It's riddled with holes inside.
Since the end of spring this year, the Forbidden Army has successively experienced the departure of its most outstanding generals, regicide, a counter-insurgency and a riot, and then ushered in a prime minister who only knew how to seize power, as well as sudden surrenders from mixed sources.
Now we have experienced harassment on hundreds of miles of front, and the most troublesome plum rain season at hand.
As for the numerous hills inside, and the large and small military leaders compromising, confronting, and uniting with each other, these are even more traditional arts.
These things, coupled with four years of wasted time, have greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the originally arrogant Imperial Army.
Everyone within the Forbidden Army knows this...but why are others just restless, but he, Zhao Xingmi, is worried?
The reason is self-evident, mainly due to his previous experience of being stationed in Huaikou and fighting against the Gang earlier, which made Zhao Xingmi realize that the Gang was not easy to mess with, and not only the top and bottom levels were not easy to mess with, but also the civil and military personnel were not easy to mess with... He
I doubt that the gang will clearly see the "big discount" of the Forbidden Army, and then suddenly bite them! Moreover, when the gang really bites, can the Forbidden Army be able to support it?
After all, everyone else felt that even if the combat effectiveness of the Forbidden Army was greatly reduced, the main force was still there, and it would still be no problem to deal with a gang that had just fought a big battle in Hebei. In other words, at worst, they could just walk over with their eyes closed.
This fog is coming at the wrong time.
"This fog is famous."
At this moment, Wang Zhuo suddenly appeared behind Zhao Xingmi and took the initiative to explain. "It is said that the Qing Emperor removed the true dragons native to the Huai River, leaving the Huai River without an owner. Hu Yunjun was originally wandering at the mouth of the river, and heard that
After hearing the news, he wanted to occupy the Huai River, but when he came here, he found that a demon clan saint, the ancestor of the Red Emperor Empress, had arrived at Tushan on the south bank of the Huai River. He wanted to use that place as a base to dredge the Huai River and expand fertile farmland...
Lord Huyun knew that this demon tribe wanted great luck, so he had no choice but to hide on Tushan Mountain and run away with a long breath. From then on, Tushan Mountain and the north bank of the Huai River opposite Tushan Mountain were often foggy."
Zhao Xingmi turned around and frowned: "Eunuch Wang, do you believe these stories? Why do I think this fog comes from Sanchangze in the southwest? The water vapor is heavy, the weather is hot, and it comes out as soon as the rain stops.
Mist?"
Wang Zhuo laughed: "I also think it came from Sancha Ze, but I just saw General Zhao frowning late at night, so I told an allusion."
Zhao Xingmi not only did not laugh when he heard this, but became even more serious: "The morning before yesterday, I didn't know that the prince was so easy-going and easy-going."
"This moment is the same as the other moment." Wang Zhuo said happily. "At that time, our internal servants had just handed over the food to Prime Minister Sima in front. If I had been a little weaker at that time, I might have caused my son to go to work. Now
Even the car is almost broken... At this point, we can't let our internal servants carry the imperial army away, right? Then I can naturally tell you, General Zhao, what to say about the mist."
Zhao Xingmi shook his head, but suddenly asked: "Eunuch Wang, are you really willing to leave the gang?"
"What do you mean?" Wang Zhuoruo was confused.
"I think it's not necessarily worse for your internal servants to stay in the north than to go back to the east." Zhao Xingmi replied quietly.
Wang Zhuo was about to speak but stopped and just laughed.
The next moment, Zhao Xingmi continued to speak: "Think about it, the current situation is between the Gang, the British Company, the Sima family, and the Xiao family. Although the outcome is uncertain, whichever family wants to be emperor will probably have to have a servant.
Yes, wouldn’t it be better if you each find your own results separately?”
Wang Zhuo was stunned for a long time, then he put his hands behind his hands and sneered, then went to look at Wu Wu, not bothering to speak to him at all.
When Zhao Xingmi saw this, although he didn't know what he said wrongly, he somewhat knew the other party's attitude, so he simply shook his head and said nothing.
In this way, the two of them looked at the fog for a while. As another cloud of fog came, Wang Zhuo turned around and left first, but Zhao Xingmi continued to stand for a while... After a while, the Youwei General also felt bored and prepared to
He went back to rest...but as soon as he turned around, he seemed to hear a sigh vaguely in the fog.
Besides, Zhao Xingmi is a master of elixir creation, he is bold and has a sharp gaze. He turned around calmly and saw clearly through the fog. There was nothing strange around him.
I ignored him and went back alone.
After he left, he didn't know that Wang Zhuo, who had taken the first step, had already found Chishiro and formulated the last part of the plan.
Setting off again the next day, the team officially left the official road along the Huan River and turned northwest towards a simple land route. Because the vehicle was damaged, even the emperor had to walk this time, and the Empress Dowager was led by several experienced practitioners. The servants took turns carrying him on his back. It didn't rain that day, so he walked surprisingly quickly.
On the tenth day of May, the rain started to fall again, and it was extremely heavy. In the afternoon, the team encountered a sentry rider. After the latter observed for a while, the whistle disappeared. This made Zhang Qianda, who was filled with anger, encountered He didn't even have time to take action, which made him even more angry.
That night, due to the Forbidden Army's attempt to rob palace residents, a chaotic conflict broke out between the Imperial Army, the Imperial Guards' Army, and the Zhishi Army. Zhang Qianda wanted to take the opportunity to have an attack, but was stopped by Zhao Xingmi's efforts.
The latter's original words were, if there is really a fuss, I don't know who is the ugly one.
On May 11, the troops entered Qiao County, and many people fell ill on that day.
On May 12th, in the evening, in the rain, the team arrived at Shansang City.
This may be a bit inaccurate, because there is also a river between them and Shansang City that seems a little wide and fast during the rainy season - Guoshui.
This is the Huaibei tributary alongside the Huan River, Fei River, Ying River, and Ru River. Theoretically, it is the smallest of the several rivers, but it is still a serious tributary of the Huai River, and it is still a river over a hundred steps wide. Before The Suishui River, which the army can freely move between, is a tributary of a tributary, which is not the same thing at all.
"Let's rest for the night!" Several military leaders faced each other across the river. Wang Zhuo was the first to make a conclusion. "It is impossible to cross the pontoon bridge in the dark."
"It can only be like this." Zhao Xingmi sighed.
"General Zhao, let's cross the river." Zhang Qianda made a suggestion with his lips brimming. "Go to the city to rest for a night. Your soldiers are not here. There is no need to spend time outside with us... Take the emperor and the queen mother with you." Go ahead and worry less."
Zhao Xingmi was moved for a moment... Even though he was a master of elixirs, he had been tortured by the rainy days these days. In addition, the army was short of food and clothing, and the stench was high. Who wouldn't want to have a good night's sleep?
At this moment, the usually taciturn Zhishilang Wanghou suddenly spoke out and objected: "The emperor and the queen mother were entrusted to me by the prime minister to take care of them. General Zhao can just go by himself."
"Chishiro, if your people hadn't caused trouble on the road and made noise at the intersection, we could all have entered the city tonight! Why are we still making noise?" Zhao Xingmi didn't speak, but Zhang Qianda got angry first.
"What can I do?" Wang Hou, who was short and stout, blushed when he heard this, and his muddy cloak trembled. "Although I have devoted myself to Prime Minister Sima, there are some homesick people in my army who don't want to Going to Huaixi for resettlement, what can I do?"
"We must kill all the troublemakers!" Zhang Qianda's face was ferocious, and the bubbles at the corners of his mouth actually broke with his facial expressions. "Otherwise, who knows what else will happen... You must kill the emperor tonight. Stay here with the Queen Mother, and tomorrow they might kidnap the Queen Mother and the Emperor and turn them into thieves!"
"Don't talk nonsense. These soldiers and horses are my foundation. If they kill people just because of a few words, that will be the cause of trouble!" Wang Hou's face turned redder. "As for if they really want to run away, , I really want to wrap up the emperor and run away, I will handle it myself!"
"General Zhao." Zhang Qianda still wanted to speak, but Wang Zhuo suddenly interrupted. "In my opinion, you should stay...otherwise, if the emperor is not stolen, these two will end up fighting."
Zhao Xingmi had no choice but to nod.
Of course, there was no fighting this night, nor was there any rebellion from the Zhishi Army. It was just the same tiredness, quarrels, and all kinds of weird things as before.
Zhao Xingmi endured it all night, and early the next morning, he waited patiently in the drizzle for the whole army to finish eating some kind of strange gooey breakfast, and then he couldn't wait to preside over the affairs of crossing the river.
The pontoon bridge was left over from the former army and was ready-made. Naturally, the imperial troops rushed to cross it first.
However, after one or two thousand people had passed, another general came to the other side to meet him. When Zhao Xingmi had a little leisure time, he noticed that the Zhishi Army and the Imperial Guard Army were still busy packing their things, but they were all restrained and no one came to fight for the pontoon. .
After hesitating for a while, Zhao Xingmi decided to go over and intervene... It was not because he was kind enough to let the other party go to the rear of the Imperial Palace first, but because of his duty. He wanted a part of the Zhishi Army to protect the Emperor and the Queen Mother, and the Internal Affairs Army could also protect the officials. past.
"General Zhao, why are you here?"
Unexpectedly, Wang Zhuo's reaction was more proactive this time.
Zhao Xingmi naturally had nothing to hide, so he stated his purpose of coming: "The Imperial Army has already passed quite a bit. Can we allow Your Majesty, the Queen Mother and the civil servants to pass by?"
"Of course." Wang Zhuo nodded and turned around to look at Yu Huo, whose face turned pale from the rain. "Eunuch Yu, go and inform Zhi Shilang first and ask him to prepare himself, and then call the Governor to come over. The Governor must personally escort His Majesty and the Queen Mother across the river. The pontoon will be slippery if it rains, so there will be no trouble..."
Yu Hao understood and left.
Then Wang Zhuo came back to confront Zhao Xingmi: "Six thousand forbidden troops, four thousand will go over first. Zhang Qianda must rob the county seat before he can be satisfied. Then let the governor watch over Chi Shilang and lead a few teams to escort His Majesty and the Queen Mother there. , then pass the rest of the Forbidden Army, and then the Zhishi Army, our internal servants and hundreds of officials can be placed at the end... We have to be on the road today, and we can't sleep in this county, right? "
Zhao Xingmi was even a little embarrassed, but he just said: "General Zhang was just at the bottom of the army, and the rain was really hard, so I was a little unhappy. It was not directed at a few people..."
"It doesn't matter." Wang Zhuo waved his hand. "We are not traveling together, but General Zhao, you have to come together. It will inevitably look strange on the road in the future."
"When I enter Huaixi, or at the very least Dongdu, I won't join in with you if you ask me to do it." Zhao Xingmi responded quietly. "Do you think I took the initiative to take over the job of sending you guys? I've been here all day long. I told Prime Minister Sima to be careful, but I annoyed Prime Minister Sima and was sent here."
Wang Zhuo was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "I really didn't think about it, I just thought you were here to supervise the army..."
Zhao Xingmi just waved his hand.
After a while, Duke Niu and Yu Huo arrived. They chatted together in Wang Zhuo's barracks, then watched the imperial army cross the river, and then poured directly into the county seat, watching the Zhishi army and The inner chamberlain army, including the chamberlain palace people, were ready to march lightly and were waiting there.
Finally, seeing that the Forbidden Army had almost passed by in numbers, Zhao Xingmi finally took the initiative to speak: "Okay, the Forbidden Army has passed more than four thousand, let's go too... After passing, ignore the Forbidden Army in the city, and directly protect His Majesty and the Queen Mother. Head west."
"It's almost time, let's go!" Wang Zhuo nodded, then turned back to look at Du Gong Niu. "Duke Niu, you also saw it. It's General Zhao who insists on looking for us. There is no other way. Please give it a try."
Duke Niu said nothing, only looked at Wang Zhuo with his hands behind his hands, and then went to see Zhao Xingmi.
Zhao Xingmi did not dare to neglect and quickly handed over his hand: "Thank you for your hard work, Supervisor."
Governor Niu exhaled and finally nodded: "Today I learned what it means to have an arrow on the string and have to be fired... The matter is over, let's go! General Zhao is leaving too!"
Zhao Xingmi was still a little confused when he heard the first half of the sentence, but he seemed to come back to his senses in the second half and was about to give up his hand again. As a result, the next moment, his expression suddenly changed, because a familiar Qi of longevity emerged from under his feet inexplicably. Just like the Moyun Golden-winged Dapeng that day, it easily wrapped around my ankle.
Not counting this, just before he was about to question the other party, General Youwei, who was rolled up by his true energy, saw the answer with his own eyes, and then stared dumbfounded in mid-air - In the camp on the east bank of the swirling water, the Zhishi Army, Jiangdu The people in the inner palace seemed to have been notified, and they almost opened the gate of the camp together. However, they were already prepared and surrounded the emperor, the queen mother and the officials of Jiangdu swarmed to the northeast!
That's the gang's hinterland!
Wang Hou and Wang Zhuo are both thief's internal agents!
Not counting this, in the inner chamber army camp at the foot, the two thousand inner chamberlain soldiers did not panic at all. They actually lined up neatly and orderly. They either held spears or raised swords and shields. They made a defensive posture towards the pontoon bridge, and then in an orderly manner Fall back to take cover.
On the other side of the floating bridge, the Imperial Guards were obviously stunned for a moment. After all, there were still more than a thousand Imperial Guards who had not crossed the river. It was impossible for them not to be surprised by the movement here... But soon, these people swarmed towards the floating bridge even faster.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Xingmi was pulled half a foot into the air, and then he couldn't help but sigh as the internal servants slowly and orderly headed north.
Strangely enough, the direct reason for the frustration of General Youwei was not that his mouth was sealed by Zhenqi and he could not call for help; nor was it a mistake that led him to fall into a trap; nor was it that he fell into the trap of Wang Zhuohe. Wang Hou's plan was not noticed by his colleagues on the 6th and 7th. It was a very small thing, that is, at that moment, he saw the remaining imperial troops swarming in the rain to grab the pontoon bridge.
After all, Zhao Xingmi knew very well that it was impossible for these forbidden troops to realize what was going on in an instant and flee in a hurry. Those forbidden troops just heard the noise and thought that the inner servant army and the Zhishi army were trying to rob their pontoon bridge and did not want to let it out.
In other words, even if Wang Zhuo and Wang Hou are fine, the sequence of crossing the river that he arranged step by step this morning will get out of control.
Here in the Forbidden Army, everything will go out of control, no matter how well-arranged it is, it will go out of control... This is really frustrating.