Volume 1 Chapter 15 Don't be forced to take risks
The soldiers of Changrong Country have been living on the grassland, generally do not need to build houses and city walls, but use tents as houses, grazing cattle and sheep all year round to chase water and grass life, so they are not good at defending the city, at this time, due to the fire on all sides, ghosts and wolves howling everywhere, and there are Yunmeng soldiers attacking the wall and killing it, so the enemy army is in turmoil, plus Helian Bobo was originally a usurper and usurper, and many soldiers of the Seven Divisions and the Ghost Fang, Qiong Fang, and Lu Fang were actually coerced or tribal leaders came for profit, Now seeing that Helian has been defeated, and he has been fighting hard by Fei Zhong for more than 20 days, the grain and grass are almost exhausted, and he has no intention of fighting, so they each took the remnants of their own soldiers and defeated generals to disperse. Seeing that the other tribes and the three vassal states had abandoned their tribes and fled, Helian Bobo was worried that the backyard would catch fire, so he had no choice but to order a retreat.
It is said that Wang Zizhao led the army to attack Nanguan, and pursued the enemy army all the way to Juyong Pass, in addition to forcing all the grassland tribes such as Helian Bobo to retreat to Juyong Pass, he burned and shot many enemies, and also captured and subdued some of the old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers who surrendered to Changrong State, which can be described as a complete victory. It's just that when the soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, someone found that General Fei Zhong's head was missing, and after inquiry, he learned that he was cut off by Helian Bobo's order.
The customs of Yunmeng have always had the custom of transporting the souls of the dead soldiers back to their hometowns and burying the whole corpse, so folk songs such as "The Conjuring" are widely spread in Yunmeng country. Treating generals who sacrificed their lives for the country can not only comfort the bereaved families and unite the hearts of the army, but also win the recognition and respect of the domestic people and the princes of the world. Wang Zizhao was young and vigorous, and he wanted to recapture the head of General Fei Zhong for burial, so after hearing this, he was in a hurry and chased him out with only a few hundred personal soldiers.
When Liu Changlin heard that Wang Zizhao chased him out of Juyong Pass, he shouted that it was not good! I thought it was bad, Wang Zizhao didn't like to study geography since he was a child, and he only brought his own soldiers from the capital, and all of them had no experience in grassland warfare and life, so it must be dangerous to go to the territory of Changrong State. So he shouted to the generals around him: "Pass the order!" The skilled soldiers of the bow and horse will follow me! In a hurry, it was difficult to wait for all the people to gather, and Liu Changlin only brought more than 10,000 elite soldiers to chase out.
It is said that on the day of General Fei Zhong's death, Wang Zizhao wrote an urgent official letter and sent someone to the capital together with General Fei Zhong's suicide note. After receiving the two official letters, the holy king Chang couldn't help but think of the absurd past when he was young and frivolous, the left Qingcang (eagle) and the right led the yellow (dog), and Fei Zhong and the king of Nanping County ran Ma Nanshan together, hunting foxes all night, and when they fought side by side against Changrong Kingdom 20 years ago, the most difficult time was when the two shared a steamed bun together. How can you imitate the old and dead children who lie stiff and cry in front of the bed. Now, a statement is a fallacy, Wang Chang can't help but look up to the sky and sigh, crying, but as a king, the training he has received since childhood is ruthless is better than affection, and people can't easily figure out their own thoughts, so as not to be used by people with ulterior motives, and they are even more afraid of being swayed by the ministers after knowing their feelings, so many people and things are helpless. For fear of being discovered, Wang Chang not only didn't dare to cry, but even the tears hanging on his cheeks had to be secretly wiped away with his sleeve.
When Fei Wuji, the general of the auxiliary state, learned the news that Fei Yun's second son's grandson had been martyred, he was filled with grief and anger for a while, and it was difficult to calm down. In Fei Wuji's eyes, Fei Zhong is most like himself when he was young, when he was a child, Fei Zhong was always ambitious, and often chanted when no one was around: "I don't want to be a marquis, but I hope that Hai Boping will be peaceful", so Fei Wuji devoted his heart and soul to him and cultivated him carefully, so that he was better than the blue. Now, Fei Wuji wanted to lead his troops to help in the war, and remembered what he had said when he resigned in the court, and his heart was tormented, so his old illness recurred, he vomited blood from his mouth, and he was bedridden all of a sudden. In order to comfort his father, Fei Yun ordered Fei Zhong's brother Fei Jie to secretly lead a Jinwu out, so that they must find Fei Zhong's body and bring it back.
After hearing that Wang Zizhao and the others had won a great victory and his younger brother's head was taken back by Helian Bobo to show off his military exploits, Fei Jie didn't care much, so after making up dry food and drinking water at Juyong Pass, the group also chased out.
After Wang Zizhao chased out, it was a barren prairie at first, with rare traces of people and horses trampling, and also caught up with some remnants of the defeated generals, but slowly, they came to a piece of yellow sand, and everyone gradually lost their way. At this time, I don't know how to advance or retreat, retreat, and I will return in vain, but I don't know where to go. "Your Highness, look, there are dead man's bones on the side of the road." The prince ordered someone to go down to check it, and then gave the order: "We will walk along the bones of the dead, and since someone has walked by, we will definitely be able to get through."
Liu Changlin led his troops all the way and also came to the Sand Sea, because there was no path on the Sand Sea, the army was completely lost in the goal and direction at this time. Liu Changlin looked at the sun overhead, it was past noon at this time, and the shadow was facing east, so he calculated in his heart: Since Wang Zizhao is tracking Helian Bo away, as long as he finds the tent of King Changrong, he will definitely be able to find Wang Zizhao. So the crowd continued westward, and found some sparse Changrong soldiers and thin horses in front of them, "General, should we capture them all alive or annihilate them." "No, don't startle the snakes yet, follow them along the road, and maybe you can find the tent of the king of Changrong."
It is said that Fei Zhong also chased out of the customs and came to the grassland. Along the way, he came across a caravan on camels, and Fei Zhong exchanged gold for a camel with their leader, and then led the men on a journey to the west.
Wang Zizhao walked along the bones of the dead man, the scorching sun was in the sky, and the people and horses were tired, at this time there were more dead bones, and hundreds of people continued to move forward, and suddenly found that there was wind and sand in front of them blown by the strong wind, like a small hill roaring towards Wang Zizhao and them, "It's not good, it's quicksand!" The prince ordered everyone: "Spread out, there is quicksand!" So everyone scattered in terror, and Wang Zizhao also rode his horse and galloped, and in an instant, hundreds of people scattered without a trace.
Liu Changlin followed the remnants of Changrong along the road, and soon came to a river, where everyone replenished drinking water, and then continued to march. Along the river to the west, a tent of the Changrong people was suddenly discovered, and it turned out that there were people grazing cattle and sheep near the river. Wang Zizhao led dozens of people to ambush near the tent, and when he found a middle-aged man dressed as a shepherd entering, everyone who had been in ambush went forward to surround the shepherd's tent, and captured all the men, women and children of his family alive and escorted them to the army.
It is said that the news of Helian Bobo's fiasco has already been passed to the prince tribe who was usurped, and everyone in the Hugh Tu Department clapped their hands when they heard it, the Hugh Tu Department has actually been the leader of the tribal alliance of the Changrong country, because the Changrong country was defeated by the Yunmeng country twenty years ago, the Hugh Tu Ministry signed a peace treaty with the Yunmeng country on behalf of the Changrong country and the Yunmeng country every year to pay tribute to horses and other precious animals and furs of the grassland, and the other seven tribes have always held a grudge, when the old king reigned, the seven tribes could barely obey the dispatch, and after the old king returned to the west, Huyan Zhan, the prince of Hutu who ascended the throne of the Xiu Tu Kingdom, was only eight years old, and at this time, the Evil Sect rose up after lying on the salary for more than 20 years, and the leader Helian Bobo secretly ran through the remaining six tribes and the small affiliated countries, and used all the methods of coercion and lure and promised various benefits to unite everyone to overthrow the rule of the Hutu Ministry in one fell swoop, and at the same time, in order to take revenge on the Yunmeng Kingdom, take advantage of the dissatisfaction of the tribes with the peace treaty, and want to tear up the peace treaty made 20 years ago, so he led the tribes and the subject countries to raise troops to attack the Yunmeng Kingdom.
The Hutu tribe was only taken away from the throne by Helian Bobo of the Evil Department and other tribes due to the young age of the prince, but because the old king won the hearts of the people and developed well in the past twenty years, it was a harmonious mess inside. Now that Helian of the Evil Department has returned from a great defeat, the rest of the tribes are resentful and have become suspicious of each other, so the Empress Dowager of the Hutu Department conspired with the ministers to secretly unite the other six tribes, preparing to take this opportunity to start a war against the Evil Department.
The herdsman captured by Liu Changlin was the herdsman of the Hutu tribe, and after receiving the news of the disharmony between the Hutu tribe and the Hun Evil tribe from the herdsmen's mouth, in order to find Helian Bobo and Wang Zizhao as soon as possible, a bold plan was born in Liu Changlin's heart.