Chapter 13 The Welcome Group of the Shen Kingdom
Zhao Liang kept whipping the horsewhip, urging the horses under his crotch to let go of all four hooves, galloping like the wind and lightning on the open field. It's like when he was in school, he rode his beloved motorcycle around the countryside on weekends. The only thing that made him feel a little uncomfortable was probably the two balls of meat on his chest that kept jumping and shaking, which gave him a sense of frustration that wanted to cry without tears every minute.
Of course, at this time, he is basically used to his identity as a daughter, especially when he goes to the toilet, whether squatting or sitting, he is very familiar.
To tell the truth, if it weren't for the fluttering of his chest, Zhao Liang would sometimes really have some indescribable sense of unreality, and he thought in a trance that he was still in the real world, and everything had never happened.
But now, that illusion is slowly disappearing. Because in addition to the meat ball reminding him at all times, riding his horse is another proof that he is in a foreign land.
In the real world, it's a luxury to want to play like this.
Zhao Liang used to use his free time during the summer vacation to travel to Bashang with his classmates. In the grassland of Yuanzhongdu, he also experienced the addiction of whipping and fighting. But after all, it is a scenic spot, the grassland is not large, but there are many tourists, and the operator is worried about the safety of personnel, so he is not willing to let Zhao Liang, who has loved horses since childhood, play to his heart's content.
The situation is very different now. As long as he is willing, he can spread joy as much as he wants, and the vast world is completely at your disposal.
But speaking of which, love is love, but Zhao Liang has never touched a horse seriously a few times since he was a child, so when it comes to this riding skill, his level is not as good as that of a fat general, let alone a group of soldiers.
However, these people did not dare to go hand in hand with him because of their different statuses, so they could only follow behind honestly, watching the general scream all the way.
"Praise rich, what's the matter with the general? Why are you so jubilant and shouting? He asked curiously about the wealth beside him.
Bao Fu blinked, and he also felt a little confused: "The humble position is not very clear." To say that the speed of this galloping horse, that is, the state of the middle and bottom, it is not even considered to be riding, and it should not be caused by galloping. Maybe it's ......" He swallowed it hard, not daring to continue.
He is a resourceful person, how can he not tell the meaning of prosperity. He guessed that the other party wanted to say: The general may be so happy because he won the ring and subdued the demon king thief.
He smiled and didn't pick out the meaning here, he said in his heart: Where can you, a fat general, understand? I am truly happy to be defeated at the hands of Ni Mei. From now on, she can be justifiably by her side for a long time, and this life is enough.
This persistent and simple love may be a touching thing for Zheng Ni, but it is an extremely embarrassing trouble for Zhao Liang.
The five thunders in the ring not only avoided the crisis of being asleep, but also unexpectedly shocked everyone present. Especially the Demon King Ridge thieves who once made an oath, they all threw themselves to the ground one by one with Zhao Liang's admiration, crying and shouting to pack up and go down the mountain with him.
Seeing that his troubles were getting more and more, and Wang Xiaosi and Zheng Luya were still waiting for him to go back to carry out the mission, Zhao Liang said that he would not accept the submission of the bandits.
While both sides are pushing and conceding, the fierce and upright bandits begin to express their loyalty by self-harm. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen guys cut off their ears and fingers and threw them in front of Zhao Liang: I swear to take refuge in you, and if you don't accept it, not only will you break the oath, but also humiliate us.
Looking at the blood-drenched organs, Zhao Liang endured the churning in his stomach and looked at Su Li and Erya like asking for help, wanting them to help persuade everyone.
But unexpectedly, these two guys were silently gesturing strange movements on the side. He put a short sword on his neck, ready to kill himself, while Er Ya was holding a copper hammer in both hands, aiming at his head, and kept comparing back and forth.
This silent posture startled Zhao Liang a lot, and he jumped up and shouted, "Stop!" I promise to take you in! ”
Because he still has to go to Shenguo to inspect, he can't take the five thousand demon king army with him anyway. drove over so murderously that Shen Hou had to force Shen Hou to fight with them on the spot.
After discussion, to be precise, after Zhao Liang's scolding, Su Li finally agreed, and he led five hundred guards to accompany him, while Erya stayed in the cottage and waited for Zhao Liang and them to come back from the mountain together.
So in this way, the five hundred royal forest army and the five hundred bandits formed a peculiar team and followed Zhao Liang to start the journey to inspect the Shen Kingdom.
However, including Leaving and Complying Fu, everyone in this team didn't know that the patrol envoy was in his heart at this time.
Inspecting Shen Guo? Don't be funny. Zhao Liang silently calculated in his heart: since the king's order is difficult to disobey, in order not to grow branches and startle snakes, he has to go this way now. However, I can give him a "Zhu Bajie Mountain Patrol".
Go to Shen Guohuang first, go from today to tomorrow, and after returning to Haojing, King Zhou You wants to ask: What kind of mountain is the mountain? I said, "Mountains are rocky mountains." He wants to ask: What kind of hole is the hole? I said, "A hole is a hole in stone." He was going to ask: Are there any monsters in the cave? I said, "No monsters, all right!" In short, the country of Shen is peaceful, the situation is very good, and there is nothing abnormal.
Anyway, according to the history books, Shenhou's rebellion will have to wait until two years later, and I can't lie to him.
With this idea, the next journey will be considered a publicly-funded tour for Zhao Liang. Fortunately, Shen Guo is not far away, coming out of the Demon King Ridge, the light cavalry Jian arrived in two or three days, and the time to return to Hojing is only about a week.
In the previous period, he also tried to contact Wang Xiaosi, Zheng Luya and Director Tu respectively when there was no one around, but there was no news. However, since Wang Xiaosi has rushed back in advance, he is most likely sure to find Zheng Luya in time, after all, he is in the same era, and the signal will be slightly better if the location is closer. As long as Wang Xiaosi can lead Zheng Luya to the camp of the Ying Clan's border army to settle down temporarily, he doesn't have to worry anymore, he just needs to wait until he returns to join and wait for an opportunity to act.
At the beginning, Zhao Liang and Wang Xiaosi agreed that as soon as they found Zheng Luya, Xiaosi would use the dial-up machine to notify him, calculate the day, and he might be able to receive the message tomorrow at the latest. And until then, it's useless to worry.
Zhao Liang's biggest advantage is that he "can think openly", and all useless thoughts often can't stay in his mind for five minutes. Regarding this, Zhao Liang's mother always said: "Child, this is good." The heart has lived for a long time, you look at the turtle......"
At this moment, Zhao Liang, who has a big heart, really understands the wisdom in his mother's words. He forgot all about the Anti-Crossing Investigation Bureau, King Zhou You, agents, arrests, and inspections, and was completely immersed in the chic pleasure of galloping. Although, in the eyes of those who came later, it was just a small step.
When he was running happily, suddenly a letter cannon exploded, which startled Zhao Liang and almost fell off his horse.
He hurriedly grabbed the reins and looked straight ahead. Just a few hundred paces away, a large group of people were gathered by the side of the road, as if they were waiting for something. Among them were officials dressed in court robes, soldiers in helmets and armor, servants carrying various utensils, and musicians holding musical instruments. In the distance, a large group of cavalry could be faintly seen.
A cyan pole stood beside the people, and the wide banner was embroidered with a Hehe gold inscription: Shen.
Bao Fu urged the horse to catch up, stopped behind Zhao Liang's side, pointed at the opposite side with a horsewhip and said, "General, it is Shenhou who has come to greet him personally." ”
"Are we here so soon?" Zhao Liang asked in surprise.
Bao Fu hurriedly explained: "Oh, the front should be the boundary of the Shen Kingdom." But if you want to get to Cangyan City, where Shenhou is stationed, it will take more than half a day. He really should have rushed here to greet him. ”
Zhao Liang knew that the Great Zhou Dynasty had already sent a fast horse messenger to inform Shenhou of the news that the gold medal envoy Zheng Ni had come to inspect, so it was not surprising that they came to pick up the driver.
Without waiting for his orders, Bao Fu shouted to the herald behind him: "Queue up!" ”
With an order, the four "military vehicles" in the Royal Forest Army lined up first, and the halberdiers on the cars held high the long halberds with leopard tails and Jiao flags, and maintained a 45-degree elevation angle in front of the uniform. One hundred cavalrymen formed a column in a row of five horses, each holding a nine-spike sword flag, which was embroidered with flying dragons, Yanhu, Xiongxiong, unicorns, red birds and other sacred beasts. Behind this flaming banner array, there was a guard of honor composed of four hundred infantry. They were also a large column of five people, armed with a long ge, a bronze sword hanging from their waists, and a longbow hanging from their backs. The soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army were dressed in tawny battle robes, covered with gold-rimmed rhinoceros leather armor, and the wild pheasant feathers on the top of the helmet swayed gently and majesticly.
Compared with such a dazzling momentum, the large group of Hanako next to it is particularly embarrassing. Most of the bandits from Demon King Ridge are infantrymen, with a variety of weapons in their hands, and even farm tools. And their clothing is more and more individual, some are full armor, some are half armor, and some are not armored. There are helmets, there are hooded ones, and there are scattered ones. These guys didn't know what a queue was, and they hugged the guards next to them, and they were not ashamed.
Bao Fu couldn't help frowning when he looked at it, he had the heart to leave the whole team, but he didn't have the guts, so he had to shake his head helplessly, and continued to command: "Honk!" ”
The trumpeter galloped out of the queue, grabbed the horns and put them on his mouth, and blew out two short and one long trumpets.
Soon after, the same horn sounded on the opposite side, but the rhythm was one short and two long. Immediately afterwards, the musicians over there began to play music, the tune was melodious and magnificent, and it was a dignified and atmospheric Zhou Dynasty ritual music when you listened to it.
Bao Fu nodded, and said to Zhao Liang: "General, Shenhou is waiting for us, you can go." ”
Zhao Liang didn't dare to slack off when he heard this, so he quickly clamped the horse's belly and prepared to leave. But just as he was about to leave, Bao Fu grabbed his reins, and said in surprise and helplessness: "General, don't you panic, shouldn't you go first?" ”
Zhao Liang scratched his head in embarrassment, and didn't know what to say for a while, so he had to say vaguely: "Ah...... Ah, yes, I'm not...... It's not ......"
He said empathetically: "Soldiers who have been in battle for a long time are often accustomed to strangling their horses and urging them to ride, and let the war horses lift their spirits before starting. Didn't the general know the rules for the chariots to march at the front of the queue? ”
Bao Fu hurriedly nodded in fear: "Yes, yes, Fang is the lowly Meng Lang, please don't be surprised." ”
Zhao Liang thought to himself that I really didn't know this rule, but he said, "It's okay." Praise the rich, I have been on the border for a long time, and many etiquette rules are a little rusty, you have to be vigilant beside me, and always remind me. ”
"Don't dare to be humble, the general forgives the sin." Bao Fu thought that Zhao Liang was still talking the opposite, in order to satirize his previous low-level mistakes.
Zhao Liang corrected very seriously: "Don't you dare, I'm not joking with you, otherwise if you get into any trouble for a while, you will have to carry the black cauldron!" ”
Bao Fu was confused when he heard it, and he agreed again and again without knowing what he was doing, but the whole person fell into a deep confusion: What does the general mean by the trouble?
They walked as they spoke, and the distance of a few hundred steps was instantaneous. When the four-seater chariot in front of the road came to the welcoming procession, it separated to the left and right, and stopped on both sides of the road, forming a goose-wing-shaped angle, and the corner aisle just gave way to the brigade behind.
As soon as Zhao Liang's horse crossed the position of the military chariot, he saw a person come out of the crowd and said loudly: "Shen Guo Hou Ziyan, welcome the imperial envoy!" ”