At night, Han Jincheng led 3,000 troops to run across the Jiangshui Mu Bridge, and the deputy general Wang Qing was a little worried: "General, you should salute first and then soldier!" If you directly arrest people on a large scale like this, a war will break out between the two armies. ”

Han Jincheng snorted, "Arrest my son, did he Sima Li talk about the rules?" If I don't arrest a few hundred people, will he pay back my son? Don't persuade me anymore, I'll explain to King Zhao! ”

Wang Qing sighed in his heart, once the two sides fight, where is it possible to grasp the proportion?

Han Jincheng's target was a patrol battalion on the east bank of the river, with a garrison of 300 people, specifically responsible for patrolling along the river.

After crossing the wooden bridge, and then walking a mile to the east, you can see a large courtyard, full of fifty acres, here is the Wei army's patrol camp, built around the wall of two people high, stationed 300 people.

At this time, it was already two watches, and Han Jincheng estimated that the other party should fall asleep, and he could take the opportunity to capture them all alive, and these three hundred people were enough to exchange for his wife and children.

Han Jincheng gave an order, and three thousand people fanned out to the patrol camp three hundred steps away, and they slowly approached the high wall, just when there were still a hundred steps away from the high wall, suddenly there was a bang sound in the camp, and the wall was full of arrows in volley, and dense crossbow arrows shot at the Zhao soldiers who were a hundred steps away.

Han Jincheng's subordinates were caught off guard, and they were hit by arrows one after another, and a miserable scream sounded, and more than 60 people fell from the arrows.

Han Jincheng was taken aback, the other party actually had an ambush, but at this time he was already riding a tiger and it was difficult to get down, if he retreated at this time, Li Wujun would not be able to spare himself, and his prestige in the army would be lost, and more importantly, his son would not be able to come back.

Han Jincheng had to grit his teeth and ordered: "Attack!" ”

The only good strategy is to use superior forces to overwhelm the opponent and defeat the opponent, and if you can capture a few alive, count a few.

Three thousand soldiers shouted and rushed to the camp.

Niu Hong, the captain of the patrol battalion, received news a quarter of an hour ago that someone had shot him with an arrow message, telling him that Han Jincheng had led 3,000 men to kill.

Niu Hong was shocked, on the one hand, he ordered his subordinates to defend themselves, and on the other hand, he sent people to ride horses to the camp to ask the main general Sima Li for help.

Seeing that the black army was coming, Niu Hong was also anxious, and sent a hundred people to guard the gate, and the rest of the soldiers shot the enemy with crossbow arrows.

The running soldiers of the Zhao army kept falling down with arrows, they were wearing leather armor, and they could not resist the penetration of powerful crossbow arrows within a hundred steps, and in just a moment, more than 200 soldiers fell and died after being hit by arrows.

Seeing one of his subordinates falling down and dying beside him, Han Jincheng's mentality gradually changed, he originally just wanted to catch him alive, and he didn't intend to hurt the other party, but now he was murderous in his heart, and yelled: "Kill me-"

The soldiers also killed near the high wall, and they fought back with their bows and arrows, and the arrows shot at the wall like a storm, and the soldiers on the wall kept falling from the arrows.

Dozens of soldiers began to pound the gate with a long banging log, 'Boom! ’

There was a painful muffled sound of the gate, and with the sound of wood breaking, dozens of soldiers took a few steps back and rushed forward with the smashing wood in their arms.

"Boom-"

Another dull impact, the gate was knocked open, dozens of soldiers couldn't hold their feet, hugged the bumping wood and rushed in, the hundred Wei soldiers hiding behind the gate rushed up, brandished spears to assassinate the soldiers holding the bumping wood, instantly assassinated more than 30 people, and the dozen soldiers behind were so frightened that they threw away the wood, stumbled back and fled.

At this time, hundreds of spearmen who followed the soldiers who slammed the door rushed in, and the two sides started a bloody battle at the gate, and many soldiers climbed over the wall to kill them.

Suddenly, there was a great chaos behind Zhao Jun, and the crying and screaming sounded, and the deputy general Wang Qing shouted: "General Han, Sima Li led the reinforcements to kill, let's withdraw the army quickly!" ”

Hearing the name Sima Li, Han Jincheng's eyes suddenly turned red, he didn't say a word, and he carried a long knife to kill behind.

In the light of the torches, he saw Sima Li, the main commander of the enemy army, holding a large iron spear, stabbing his own soldiers with a spear.

"Sima Dog Thief, return my son!"

Han Jincheng shouted, urging the horse to kill Sima Li, but Sima Li didn't hear what the other party was shouting, at this time he was also angry in his heart, if he didn't come in time, the brothers in the patrol camp would be killed.

Since the other party is unruly, don't blame yourself for being ruthless.

He also roared and swung his gun at Han Jincheng.

Unexpectedly, the two sides have not yet approached, and a cold arrow 'whoosh!' 'The ground shot was right in the neck of Han Jincheng, this arrow was extremely ruthless and very accurate, 'Poof! An arrow shot into the neck, and the wolf's tooth arrow pierced the neck, Han Jincheng screamed, turned over and fell off the horse.

Sima Li was stunned for a moment, who shot this arrow, very clever!

Sima Li's own soldiers swarmed up, dismembered Han Jincheng's body with a knife, and beheaded him.

The deputy general, Wang Qingyuan, saw that the lord would be killed, and shouted: "Retreat!" Retreat quickly! ”

The Zhao army was routed on all fronts, chased and killed by Wei soldiers, corpses were strewn all over the place, and countless surrenderers surrendered

Wang Qing only led hundreds of remnants to escape across the Jiangshui Bridge, but when crossing the bridge, they were ambushed by an army, and Wang Qing, who was riding on a horse, was shot like a hedgehog and fell into the river to his death.

The rest of the soldiers were frightened like lost dogs, they did not dare to stay in Nangong County, and fled directly to Xindu County.

The fierce battle between Nangong County and Jingcheng County became the fuse of the war between the two armies of Zhao and Wei, Li Wujun couldn't bear it, he couldn't take care of the Jin army still in Zhouzhou, poured 30,000 troops into Beizhou, the general Sima Li couldn't resist, and retreated to the east, Tian Yue also led 30,000 troops to meet Li Wujun, and a big battle broke out between the two sides in the east of Qinghe County, Beizhou.

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At the same time as the war broke out in Hebei, the imperial examination in Chang'an finally began.

At the time of the fifth watch, the sky was still dark, hundreds of ox carts were parked on the Qixiamen Street outside Yongle Fang, the ox carts were hung with lanterns, and the word "examination" was written on them, which was the ox cart organized by the government, which was specially responsible for transporting the scholars to the examination room of the Gongyuan Academy.

Xie Changming and Xiao Zhenye walked out of the gate quickly, only to see Han Yu standing in front of the gate and waving to them, "This way!" This way! ”

The two hurriedly ran up, and seeing that the street outside was full of ox carts, Han Yu smiled and said: "I asked, you can sit casually, ten people can sit in a car, and leave when it is full!" ”

They boarded an ox-cart in which seven people were already seated, and three of them came up, just as full.

"It's full, it's time to go!" The scholars shouted.

The coachman looked back and counted the number of people, then waved his long whip, and the ox cart set off slowly.

Han Yu is the second time to participate in the imperial examination, last year in Chengdu to participate in the imperial examination failed, this year he decided to come to Chang'an to try his luck, although Chang'an refers to too many scholars, it is said that there are more than 80,000 people, but the chance of admission is also great, even if you can't get into the Jinshi, you also have the opportunity to enter Taixue or Guozixue to study.

For Han Yu, the most important thing is free tuition and room and board, his father and eldest brother have passed away, only the widowed sister-in-law Zheng raised him, the family is really embarrassed, this time he came to Chang'an to entangle, or the clan brother Han Yi funded him, but it is not much, the little money left is only enough for him to take the boat back to Xuanzhou.

It was also thanks to the fact that he knew two friends that he was not so embarrassed in Chang'an.

"Brother Han, did you choose Taixue or Guozixue when you signed up?" Xie Changming asked with a smile.

Han Yu hesitated and said, "I chose Taixue." ”

Xiao Zhenye next to him said: "Actually, I think you should choose Guozixue, you have a good literary foundation, and Guozixue is more suitable for you." ”

Han Yu smiled bitterly, Guozixue only recruits 500 people, while Taixue recruits 1,000 people, and it is more likely to be admitted to Taixue.

"What are you doing now, let's talk about it if you can get in!"

"That's right! It's good to be able to get in. ”

Everyone in the ox cart was silent, and everyone knew very well that it would be good to be admitted, 80,000 scholars!

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The Gongyuan is in the new city, and the vast square is already crowded with people, and it has begun to queue up to enter.

This is the third time that the Jin Kingdom has held the imperial examination, and the experience is already very rich, everyone is only allowed to enter the venue with the examination ticket, that is, the admission ticket, check the examination ticket, and enter after the search.

The Jin Imperial Examination did not verify identity, but implemented a retrospective system, and once someone exposed the substitution examination, then an investigation was conducted, including handwriting verification and proficiency tests in person.

If the handwriting is not the same, and the level is too different, then it is troublesome.

Next to the examination room is a wide blue brick road, with a high wall on the right and alleys on the left, a total of 200 alleys, the alleys are very long, each alley sits 500 candidates, there are 250 rooms facing each other, and there are several toilets at the top.

As in the previous two sessions, candidates do not live in the examination room, finish the test on the same day, go back on the same day, and come back the next day for the test, for a total of three days.

"I'm here!"

Xiao Zhenye was the first to arrive, and he was No. 96, Lane 32.

"I wish Brother Xiao to play extraordinary!"

"I wish you both good in the exams."

Xiao Zhenye entered, followed by Xie Zi'an, who was No. 144 of Lane 38.

Finally, there is Han Yu, who is No. 270, Lane 47.

There was a small lantern hanging above each room, reflecting the number, Han Yu walked into his room and sat down, put down the plank, and took down a basket from the top of his head, which was full of all kinds of exam supplies.

Han Yu poured a little water from the small gourd, began to study the ink, and tried the test pen again, and it felt good, better than the pen at home.

The paper of the exam is also in the basket, you must first write your name, place of origin and exam number in the box at the end of the paper, and then paste this column with a paste note after it is dry, and pay attention to the paste not to pollute the name, which Han Yu appreciates very much, and the Chengdu imperial examination is not muzzled, and basically the children of the poor family are hopeless.

Once the name is lost, everyone will be treated equally, and there will be hope for the children of the poor family.

Han Yu picked up the pen again and wrote his examination room number next to it, which is very, very important, if you don't write it, the three-day test papers will not be able to be gathered together, and you won't even have the opportunity to participate in the marking.

Then write a word A, which means that he is a Jinshike, and write B to indicate the Mingjing Branch.

In fact, you can also write it, you can see from the examination room number, the first fifty lanes are Jinshike, and the back are Mingjingke.

Han Yu put down the pen, breathed a sigh of relief, and waited for a long time, all the scholars were in place, and the sky was already numb.

'Boom! Boom! Boom! ’

The dull drums sounded, and when the hour came, the gate of the Tribute Courtyard was slammed shut, and all the invigilators and invigilators were in place, and everyone was waiting.

The courtyard was unusually quiet, and there was still a quarter of an hour, and Han Yu quietly waited for the second drum beat, and also quietly waited for the moment to decide his fate.