A few days ago, after the edict of the Western Expedition, the Son of Heaven asked Taishi Buzhai for three days, and picked an unlucky spirit turtle to go to the high temple to drill the tortoise shell Bu auspicious day, and set the date of the expedition, that is, the September 15th of the third year of Tian'an (61 BC), and held the expedition ceremony in the high temple.

"Sheji's safety is in danger, one is in the general. Now the West is not a minister, and I hope that the generals and commanders will also respond. ”

The Son of Heaven was dressed in the dress of the twelve chapters of the crown, entered the temple gate first, and stood on the west side; Ren Hong wore the newly obtained white tiger stripe Mingguang armor, wrapped a five-star arm guard around his arm, and also entered the temple gate and stood in the north.

Liu Xun stretched out his hand, and the old prime minister Bingji handed over a simple gluttonous pattern yellow Yue, which was decorated with gold, according to the Liutao military salute, the Son of Heaven did not hold the handle, but held the head of the horse, and handed the handle to Ren Hong.

"From now on, the one who ascends to heaven will be ruled by the general!"

Ren Hong took the handle of the bronze Yue with both hands, at this moment he seemed to be holding a weapon against the Son of Heaven, if he suddenly broke out, a force to chop Huashan down, it was enough to cut off the head, blood splashed five steps, the world sketch. Therefore, this ceremony of awarding the axe is a test of the trust of the king and the general.

"I also hope that the general will advance when he sees the emptiness, and stop when he sees the truth. Don't underestimate the enemy with the three armies, don't take orders as the most important and die, don't be noble and cheap, don't disobey the people with unique opinions, and don't take arguments as inevitable. ”

After saying the cliché, Liu Xun took over the bronze axe from Yu Dingguo, the imperial historian, this time he held the handle, and aimed the blade at Ren Hong's head, and the tip of the axe blade lightly clicked on Ren Hussar's bun!

It seems that with a slight increase in his hand, he can bury his uncle in the temple, and Zhao Da in later generations will die under the same weapon.

"Whoever goes down to the abyss from now on, the general will control it!"

Liu Xun's voice sounded: "The affairs in the army, regardless of the king's orders, are all sent out by the generals, and there is no second heart in the decisive battle against the enemy." It is the wise man who plots for it, and the brave man fights for it, and the spirit is fierce, and the speed is like galloping, and the enemy surrenders without taking the blade. Victory is outside, merit is achieved inside, officials are rewarded, and the people are happy, and there will be no blame. It is the season of wind and rain, the grains are abundant, and the society is peaceful. ”

Ren Hong took the axe with both hands and said loudly: "The minister is ordered, but the minister hears that the country cannot be governed from outside, and the army cannot be controlled; You can't be a gentleman with two hearts, and you can't be suspicious of the enemy. Since the minister was ordered to monopolize the power of the cauldron, the minister did not dare to survive, and I hope that the king would also give a word to the minister. The king does not allow the ministers, and the ministers dare not general! ”

"I promise it."

Liu Xun helped Ren Hong up, and he was talking in accordance with the rules, but next, he whispered to Ren Hong.

"I am in the Han family system, and I am a bully!"

"And Qing marches to foreign countries, resists the remnants of Qin in Haixi, and raises the prestige of my Han Dynasty!"

"China and foreign countries are one, monarchs and ministers are one, and the general is reluctant to do this!"

Looking back on the past ten years of friendship, the two of them were full of emotion, they once regarded each other as friends, and together they carried the weight of Huo Guang, cooperated to quell the rebellion, solved the Xiongnu and let peace descend on the Han Dynasty, and once fell into suspicion and the defense of monarchs and ministers. But in the end, I trust the other party.

The final ceremony was that the ceremonial officer handed over the scissors, asked Ren Hong to cut his nails, and sent a pure white robe, and the hussar general took it over and put it on his body!

Of course, this is not the emperor's curse on him, claw 鬋 (jiǎn) underworld, to show that on the day of the teacher's departure, there is the glory of death and the shame of life.

"Your Majesty, the minister farewell!" Ren Hong knew that if he left, he would probably not see each other again in this life, and they had all made a choice.

"Hussar General, please!"

Liu Xun also understood this, and bowed to Ren Hong: "I and the Empress, the Empress Dowager, will be on the Que, and say goodbye to the general!" ”

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Ren Hong bowed three times, said goodbye, went out of the high temple, and rode towards Beique Square, and the car also carried five soapy yellow flags.

According to Wei Wushu's standards, a thousand carefully selected guards waited here.

This was only a small fraction of what was able to participate in the ceremony, and there were still 14,000 people in the camp outside the city, which was the number of people who set out from Chang'an. Compared with the number of Yuan Ting's five generals to conquer the Xiongnu and Jingning's Northern Expedition, the army of more than 100,000 or 200,000 is undoubtedly a small fight. After all, the enemy is much weaker, and the Western Regions are far away, and you can bring 100,000 people directly from Chang'an, and the supplies along the way will be unbearable, and you can starve to death of 50,000 on the way.

It is now late autumn, and more than 10,000 people led by Ren Hong and Feng Fengshi will spend the winter and train in Jiuquan and Dunhuang in Liangzhou after the expedition, and then march west in the spring of the next year.

Zhao Han'er of Anbei and Xin Qingji of Jincheng each took 5,000 years to go their separate ways, and everyone will meet again in Wusun next year.

The tens of thousands of athletes of Chang'an Sanfu are mostly newly recruited soldiers, and a group of veterans who have followed Ren Hong have been arranged to be military officials. It can really be described as Xuanjia Yao Sun, Zhu Qi is in the sky, the halberd is like a forest, and the horse is like a dragon.

"How many recruits have I brought with me?"

Ren Hong shook his head, when he heard that he was going to go on an expedition, the Sanfu people squeezed their heads and wanted to participate, and they really regarded him as a military merit manufacturing factory.

The people who failed to go on an expedition with Ren Hong were also here, led by Zhao Chongguo, who had a white beard and a chest, and Han Dang, whose sideburns were already gray, was like an iron tower, but his hands were wiping the tears on his face, what do you say you are crying, isn't it a shame? The ranger general Guo Wengzhong made a gesture towards Ren Hongchang, and there were many people who maintained the same posture as him.

Last night, Ren Hong had already toasted with everyone separately, and he couldn't say goodbye to them one by one at this moment.

Xia Dingmao also brought the four children of the Ren family to say goodbye, this time Yaoguang walked with Ren Hong, and the family had to be handed over to Xia Dingmao and the eldest son Ren Bai. Lao Xia's hair was all white, he had served four generations of the Ren family, and when Ren Hong asked if he would like to follow him to the West, Lao Xia chose to shake his head.

"Gentleman, you are old and tired, and you want to be buried next to the grave of the old master in Wugong County."

With the beating of the drums above the North Gate, the horns in the army should be harmonized, and one flag after another was unfurled. In addition to the red and yellow Han flag and the "Ren" character flag, the emperor actually added a five-star flag to them that highlights auspiciousness and the mandate of heaven - don't think about it, white stars on a black background, but it has made Ren Hong cry and laugh.

Ren Hong is now dressed in dazzling bright light armor, dual-wielding, with a gourded axe in his left hand and a gluttonous axe in his right hand, and he lifts it high and crosses it in the car, like a king of the hills.

"Expedition!"

"Expedition!" Chang'an Jian'er held the spear halberd, and Ren Hong put the axe on the car, turned over the horse with tiger striped horse armor, he rode the old radish today, from Beique to Hengmen, it was still moving.

"Chang'an Zhuang'er didn't dare to ride, and he walked through the city to know it."

"The head of the green silk is the old man, why do you go out of the door?"

Ren Hong stroked the old man's horsehair: "Radish, I am now the number one general in the world." “

"You're also the number one horse in the world."

And the Hengmen Avenue in front of the North Que is even more crowded, Chang'an people come to see this lively, Ren Hong and the soldiers go north in the cheers of Chang'an people. When he walked to the majestic horizontal gate, he restrained the radish that he couldn't wait to run around in the vast world, and looked back for the last time.

Looking at the Han Beique, there are many heads hanging on it, like the medal on Ren Hong's chest, he has said goodbye to it again and again, and waited for the day of success to return to the Han Dynasty.

But this time it's different, his victories and exploits, and the spoils of war may be sent back by the post horse Pegasus, but Ren Hong himself is a Long March man who has not returned!

Liu Xun and Xu Pingjun, the crown prince, may be on top

"Goodbye ......"

Wrong.

"Farewell, Beique!"

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Among the 1,000 athletes who were inspected in Beique Square and went out of the city with the Marquis of Xi'an, there was Wang Feng.

To put it mildly, most of the thousands of guards who are hussars are related households. Wang Feng's father, Wang Ban, didn't have much energy, so he only left the relationship between his former colleagues who destroyed Hungary, so he let Wang Feng squeeze in, and barely completed the quality selection.

Because of his tall stature, Wang Feng was selected to be a flag officer - although he was only carrying an ordinary small flag, he was also very proud. At this moment, when he walked on Hengmen Street with his head held high, his eyes glanced to the sides, and there were many yellow flowers, and the young lady who used the rouge of the Western Regions pointed to the soldiers of the Western Expedition to cover his mouth and smile, as if he was picking on the future Langjun.

There are also children riding on the necks of their parents, looking at this big scene in a daze, Wang Feng was hooked by the scene of the majesty of the soldiers returning from the expedition when he was young.

More of them are people who are reluctant and eager for their children, fathers and brothers, and Wang Feng even saw his family!

There is no way, there are too many of his families, from his father Wang Ban, to ten brothers and sisters, the youngest is still a milk doll, and the older one is like the second sister Wang Zhengjun, who can already look for him on tiptoe, and after seeing it, he waved desperately, and the hair with a yellow ribbon loomed in the crowd.

Wang Feng's nose was sour, but he pretended not to see it, and continued to hold his head high and follow the hooves of Xi'an Hou's horse! He's going to get a great deed, glorifying his ancestors!

On the other side of Hengmen Street, on the west gate of Changle Palace, opposite Weiyang, there are also a few people who are looking at Ren Hussar from afar, but they are dressed up as the Empress Dowager and her group of palace maids.

Shangguan Tang is twenty-eight years old, and this is the twenty-third year that she has been in the palace.

But unlike the reluctance of the Son of Heaven Liu Xun and the Empress Xu Pingjun, the Empress Dowager Shangguan came here......

is purely idle and has nothing to do to watch the excitement, and there is no fluctuation in Ren Hong's heart for leaving.

Previously, the Son of Heaven inexplicably asked the queen to invite Shangguan Tang and asked her to weave an arm guard to give to Ren Hussar to show the royal favor. The Shangguan clan agreed verbally, but in fact, in Changle Palace, a talented person named "Fu Yao", who was ingenious and beautiful, did it for him.

For the Empress Dowager Shangguan, Ren Hong, all the way.

She was a little reluctant to let Mrs. Yaoguang, Princess Anping went, and the Shangguan family lacked a companion who could speak.

Shangguan Tang was indeed a little envious of Yaoguang's freedom, but when he thought of the wind and dust, it would be winter soon, so he still hugged the stove in a fox fur and nested comfortably in the greenhouse of Changle Palace.

She has a high seniority, a big man, no one can set rules for her, if she wants to eat, if she wants to sleep, she doesn't get in the way of anyone's business, and the emperor and queen have to respect us.

Shangguan Tang only looked at the banner of Ren Hussar, who had already left the Hengmen, and thought secretly: "Princess Anping entered Changle Palace a few days ago, and hinted that she might not return if she went here. ”

"But I thought otherwise, I see people accurately, this hussar is the same as the county official, he will return the old one!"

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PS: Chapter 2 is in the evening, Chapter 3 is before 0:00 in the morning.