Chapter 354: Western Expedition (29)
Zhao Yuanzuo hit his horse and rushed to the top of the ditch, Chen Shengjie, Liu Xinyi, Zhang Hanwen, and Zhang Zhiping all stood up and shouted excitedly.
What's going on, Chen Shengjie's four nephews and uncles are guarding the ditch at the top? That's right, it was Chen Shengjie's four nephews and uncles who were guarding the top ditch.
Did the demons send the gods? How could it be Chen Shengjie's four nephews and uncles? Could it be that this is a deliberate arrangement by God!
When Chen Shengjie's four nephews and uncles asked Lu Chengyu, the general of the horses, to ask for help, they said that the four of them should guard the top of the ditch through the hall, that is, the mouth of the ditch at the southern end; At that time, they didn't expect to meet Zhao Yuanzuo here, they only thought that the ditch at the southern end was the last pass to prevent the Khitan Tatars from escaping; The Khitan Tartars will do the battle of trapped beasts and kill wildly, and the four nephews and uncles have a little kung fu in their hands to defend on the card in the south; The Khitan Tartars will be beaten back to the ditch to burn to death.
But the development of events was beyond the imagination of the four nephews and uncles, and the crown prince Zhao Yuanzuo rode over on horseback; The four nephews and uncles greeted the crown prince as if they were desperate, which was completely due to providence.
Many people don't believe in the right and wrong, invisible, and intangible things of Providence, but things that don't believe will always come to you unexpectedly and make you unguardable; It can really be said that there are all kinds of strange things in the world, and there are treacherous things all the time; It's everywhere, don't you believe it!
Chen Shengjie's four nephews and uncles stayed with Zhao Yuanzuo for a few months, and they always thought that he was the fourth rank official of the imperial court, the strong military general Cao Fuxin; And during this time, Cao Fuxin and Chen Shengjie's nephew and uncle were bosom friends who talked about everything.
Caofu Xin is younger than Chen Shengjie, Liu Xinyi, Zhang Hanwen, and Zhang Zhiping, and he is the younger brother in the minds of Chen Shengjie's nephews and uncles; But this little brother is rich in learning and five cars, full of economy; The four nephews and uncles bowed to him.
Another reason why the four nephews and uncles worship Cao Fuxin is his conversation, knowledge, and opinions, which is probably the difference between reading more and reading less.
The name Caofu Xin is fake, but the fact that he is the son of Zhao Guangyi of Song Taizong is ironclad.
The eldest prince has accepted the cultivation of "Zihu and Taoism and martial arts" since he was sensible; , read through the "Yi Guanyi", "Book of Songs", "Book of Books", "Zhou Li", "Book of Rites", "Analects", "Mencius" from childhood.
Although Chen Shengjie's four nephews and uncles also knew a few words, they were all half-paws learned from the bite of a donkey head dog.
Cao Fu Xin's eloquent talk made Chen Shengjie's four nephews and uncles admire them so much, but at that time, the four nephews and uncles didn't know that the strong general Cao Fu Xin was the crown prince Zhao Yuanzuo.
An hour ago, Chen Shengjie's nephews and uncles learned from the mouth of Lu Chengyu, the general of the Western Expedition; Caofu Xin is the crown prince Zhao Yuanzuo.
Legend has it that Zhao Yuanzuo was abolished by his father Song Taizong, and the crown prince after the abolition was "crazy"; However, he appeared in the army of the Western Xia people, and Chen Shengjie's four nephews and uncles probably didn't expect it.
Chen Shengjie's four nephews and uncles were refugees who fled to the capital from Guanzhong and Yiyi, which suffered a great drought that had not been encountered for thousands of years, and the crops were not harvested; The phenomenon of cannibalism has not been made public, but it cannot be said that it does not exist.
Chen Shengjie is an uncle and a boxer, in order to survive, he took the children of his three sisters, Liu Xinyi, Zhang Hanwen, and Zhang Zhiping, from Guanzhong to Bianjing, and performed all the way; When they arrived in the capital, they were still performing arts, but Lu Chengyu, the master of the horses, found them; Recruit the four nephews and uncles as Tianxiang Army.
The old foundation of the Tianxiang army was to bring 500 horse-sending soldiers from Shudi, and 500 horse-sending soldiers rushed to Yanmen Pass to expand to 800 children; Lu Chengyu named the unit "Tianxiang Army".
The Tianxiang Army was called the Tianlu Army before, but the auspicious character is more auspicious than the Lu character; In the end, he called Tianxiang Army.
The Tianxiang army fought at Yanmen Pass, and its courage was comparable to that of Yang Ye's Yang family's army; The two commanders of the Tianxiang Army, Lu Chengyu and Wen Tongxiao, were originally Jinshi and were quite military-minded.
In the process of assisting General Yang Ye to fight the Khitan soldiers of the Liao State, the two combined fiction and reality, and were flexible and mobile; Completely break through the shackles of Zhao Guangyi's "Pingrong Ten Thousand Arrays" of Song Taizong and formulate tactics according to the ever-changing battlefield, and firmly block the hundreds of thousands of troops of Liaojingzong Yeluxian north of Yanmen Pass.
Yelu Xian saw that it was difficult to break through the rock-solid defensive front of the Song army for a while, and retreated to the palace tent to order the horse Xiao Duli to lead the army to storm Yanmen Pass; Lu Chengyu, Wen Tongxiao and Yang Yelao attacked the horse army from all sides, and used crossbowmen to garrison the city to kill and injure the Liao army's new force; The concubine Xiao Xuan Li was killed in the battle, and the Liao commanders Li Chonghai and Xiao Tzuai were also captured alive.
The victory in the battle of Yanmen Pass dispelled the arrogance of the Liao army since the Liao Taizong Yelu Deguang; Liaojingzong Yeluxian was also angry to death after the defeat at Yanmen Pass.
The Battle of Yanmen Pass made Lu Chengyu, and the emperor married his daughter to him; The official rank has also been upgraded from the original sixth rank to the second rank.
Lu Chengyu is undoubtedly a wise and brave all-rounder, treating subordinates such as Chen Shengjie's nephew; It's really caring.
Chen Shengjie's four nephews and uncles have kung fu in their hands, and they can't help but worry about food and clothing after being recruited by Lu Chengyu as the Tianxiang Army; And everyone has a fixed income every month, and the four nephews and uncles sent their income back to their hometown of Hunyi to save six relatives and dozens of families.
Chen Shengjie's nephew and uncle were loyal to General Horse, when Lu Chengyu explained that their guard Cao Fuxin was the emperor's crown prince Zhao Yuanzuo; The four were amazed and delighted, and now; Zhao Yuanzuo rode on his horse and galloped towards them.
"The prince is running this way!" Chen Shengjie forgot that he was in an ambush, stood up and shouted.
Liu Xinyi, Zhang Hanwen, and Zhang Zhiping saw their uncle standing up and shouting, so they all stood up and ran towards Zhao Yuanzuo.
Zhao Yuanzuo saw the four of Chen Shengjie's nephews and uncles, and also heard Chen Shengjie's nephews running and shouting towards him; I thought to myself in astonishment; How did the four of them know that Xiao Ke was Zhao Yuanzuo......
Zhao Yuanzuo didn't think much about it, and galloped his horse and said: "Go back, hurry back; The Tartars are chasing after them......"
As Zhao Yuanzuo spoke, the black horse had already crossed the concealment line set up by the four nephews; Chen Shengjie leaped up with an arrow step, grabbed the bridle of the black steed, and stopped the horse; helped Zhao Yuanzuo down to hide, and more than 100 Tartar soldiers behind Xiao Tzu Yong also showed their heads in the ditch.
At this time, Lu Chengyu, who was standing on the hillside, raised the red flag in his hand high; The Tianxiang army ambushed on both sides of the ditch bombarded with 10,000 cannons, 10,000 arrows, and 10,000 thunders; Torches and tinder are thrown at the bottom of the ditch to ignite the wheat straw that had been dumped in the ditch earlier.
The Tartars ran nowhere to go, and rockets fell one after another from the mountains; The mines that were detonated protruded together, and the sky-high fire ignited the trees and weeds in the ditch; A strong wind blew suddenly, and the fire spread in all directions; Only listen to the scraping and scraping in the ditch, beep and beep.
Xiao Tzuyong was so frightened that he hugged the two personal soldiers around him and cried loudly: "Does God want to kill us here?" ”
Xiao Tzuyong said, ordering the soldiers to extinguish the flames; A personal soldier rushed to cry and said: "King, the ditches that advance and retreat have been sealed by the Song army, and we have no way out!" ”
Xiao Tzuyong didn't believe the words of his own soldiers, and rushed forward with dozens of Tartar soldiers who were not burned by the fire.
As soon as Zhao Yuanzuo was helped down by Chen Shengjie from his horse, he saw the fire in the valley soaring to the sky; Wan Lei coaxed, and couldn't help but dance: "Aunt Min is really a generation of generals, and she calculates so accurately; said that she wanted to introduce the Tartar soldiers into a torch through the hall, but Xiao Ke thought she was talking big and bragging; I didn't expect the prophecy to come true! ”
Chen Shengjie saw that Zhao Yuanzuo was speaking happily, and stared at him: "Prince, is the girl you are talking about the Golden Knife Instructor!" ”
Chen Shengjie's question was abrupt, Zhao Yuanzuo glanced at Chen Shengjie and said unabashedly: "Yes, Miss Min is the previous General Yan Jindao, when she was the General Yan Jindao, she taught all the soldiers of the Tianxiang Army a crossbow machine; After starting from Bianjing, you don't need the name of Yan Jindao to become Liu Min! ”
Zhao Yuanzuo said this, staring at Chen Shengjie and said, "You don't know that General Yan Jindao is Liu Min? ”
Chen Shengjie laughed and said, "How can we know such a mysterious thing? It's your true identity, Prince, that we only heard about it from General Pony an hour ago! ”
Zhao Yuanzuo laughed with an "oh", and said: "I just said that I heard you calling the prince on the horse just now, it turned out that the horse master revealed Xiao Ke's identity!" ”
Zhao Yuanzuo said unfinished: "That's right, Xiao is the prince, but that was in the past; Not long ago, my father had abolished Xiao Ke, and the reason why my father abolished Xiao Ke was not because I asked him why he forced the fourth uncle to death! ”
Zhao Yuanzuo mentioned the basket and moved, and even talked about Song Taizong's framing of his own brother: "The fourth uncle Zhao Tingmei was wronged, he and his sons were all sent to remote and evil states; Degong, Delong, and Deyi, who have played with Yuan Zuo since childhood, can no longer play with Yuan Zuo, and Zhao Yuanzuo is not convinced! ”
Chen Shengjie saw that Zhao Yuanzuo's words were more, and he tugged on his arm and said, "Prince, it's best for us not to talk about your family's affairs; Let's talk about how Miss Min set up the fire in the hall! ”
Zhao Yuanzuo was stunned for a moment, raised his voice and laughed twice: "It's a long time to talk!" In this way, after we broke up with the horse master in the river river, you followed the Tianxiang army on the straight road on the north bank of the river; We approached along the water of the Xianghe River, and not far from the Tianzhuling Horse Farm, we found a figure shaking among the reeds of the river; Min Gu hit the nail on the head and said: It was the enemy army, either the Liao army or the Western Xia soldiers; The goal is Fenghe Cang! ”
Liu Xinyi continued: "The Tartar soldiers want to burn down the Fenghe warehouse, isn't the appetite of the son of a bitch too big!" ”。
"That's right, the Tartar soldiers disguised themselves and traveled thousands of miles to come to the river for the purpose of burning down the Fenghe Warehouse, the Fenggu Warehouse, and the Fengyu Warehouse. Once set on fire by the enemy, we will only have a chance to be beaten; Therefore, Miss Min deployed the 300 Tartar soldiers led by Xiao Tzuyong to be burned to death in Chuantanggou......"
Zhao Yuanzuo didn't say anything, but saw Xiao Tzuyong leading dozens of soldiers to rush over from the fire to this side; I can't help but be dumbfounded......