In the early morning of the next day, Wang Hengzhi met Zhao Xingde on the archery range, put down his bow and arrows and asked, "I heard that you asked Sinan to go back?" ”

Zhao Xingde spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "General Wang is kind, Zhao has received it, but he is not blessed." He picked up his bow and shot an arrow at a distant target, which struck the heart cleanly.

Wang Hengzhi secretly praised in his heart, although the number of sergeants in the Chengying Battalion is small, but all of them are outstanding in martial arts, and they can almost be compared with the legendary Tielin Army under Marshal Han when the Han army of Liaodong won a complete victory. In that year, Han Chang personally led the Tokyo Daohan army to send troops against Liao, and the 5,000 Tielin Army was the vanguard, breaking through the interception of tens of thousands of Khitan cavalry, and reaching the upper capital, but the Nanjing Daohan army that originally planned to come to attack Shangjing did not appear, and the Liaodong Han army fell into the ten-sided ambush plan of the Liao marshal Yelu Renxian. Tens of thousands of troops broke the halberd and broke the axe mountain, and Han Chang died in battle. Yelu Renxian is really patient, as a Khitan, he is willing to succumb to Han Chang for decades, without showing his edge, watching Han Chang conquer and kill in the west, and be crowned the king and worship the lord, but the battle of Broken Axe Mountain is famous all over the world.

"In addition to his outstanding archery skills, this Captain Zhao is easy not to show his edge, but he is quite similar to Yelu Renxian back then, this person came to Liaodong, I don't know if it is a blessing or a curse for my Han'er?" Wang Hengzhi put the arrow on the bow, like a full moon, and as soon as his right hand was loosened, the arrow pierced the arrow target like a meteor catching the moon.

"General Wang," Zhao Xingde took an arrow and put it on the bow, and said in a deep voice while pulling the bow: "The situation in Liaodong, now the two tigers are fighting, and there is no time to take care of anything else, so the Han army can still survive, if these two tigers fight to win or lose, and turn to attack me, I am afraid," He let go of the bowstring, only to hear the sound of "bang", the arrow penetrated the red heart of the arrow target, as if pierced Wang Hengzhi's nerves, and the hidden worries in his heart have always been here.

After learning of the defeat at the front, the military advisor Liu Liufu defended Liaoyang for more than a year, and after the grain ran out, he set fire to the city and died in the fire. As soon as the Shangjing army arrived at Tokyo Road, it was immediately forbidden for the Han people to carry bows and knives, and millions of Han people in Liaodong fell into the sea of suffering, and the rest of the Han army was forced to hide in Taibai Mountain and Xianbei Mountain under the pursuit and suppression of the Khitan army, and was in the company of savages and struggled to maintain. In the past ten years, the Jurchen has been violent, and the momentum of the two tigers has given the Han army a chance to breathe, but unfortunately, the two tigers have finally won, and no matter who wants to dominate the world at that time, they will not tolerate the existence of the Han army in the backyard of Liaodong.

Zhao Xingde exhaled and said slowly: "I'm only afraid that when the time comes, people will be swordsmen, and I will be fish and meat." He lowered his bow and looked at Wang Hengzhi. The remnants of the Han army set up dozens of villages in Taibai Mountain and Xianbei Mountain, each serving as a leader, respecting the Han clan as the co-master, among which Wang Hengzhi was loyal to the Han clan and had a great influence in the Han army in each village, if you want to reverse the situation in Liaodong, you need to convince this person.

Wang Hengzhi has been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and when he heard Zhao Xingde's words, he muttered: "We are all rough people, we don't know how to write and ink, and we are in a corner of the local area, and we are short-sighted, so please ask General Zhao for more advice?" He also put down his bow and arrows and walked to the side with Zhao Xingde. This Han military camp is built on a cliff, three sides are inaccessible dense forests, there are only a few paths in the forest, all under the supervision of the Han army sentry, one side is a cliff that is difficult for apes to climb, and the arrow range is on a flat ground on the cliff.

Zhao Xingde and Wang Hengzhi stood on this cliff together, overlooking the reckless mountains, the mountains are endless, like the undulating waves of the sea, dense layers of forests, tall birch, maple trees, pine trees, spruce covered with snow, and countless shrubs that cannot be named, growing endlessly in the deep mountains that have been inaccessible for thousands of years, many trees are better to wither in winter, and the branches and leaves that cover the sky and the sun in summer make the forest pitch black. In this dense forest, there are countless birds and beasts, and there are countless savages. This piece of white mountains and black water is like the grassland of Mobei, born to be a place that does not obey the king, the Han army has retreated to the mountains and forests for decades since the defeat of the Broken Axe Mountain, relying on the protection of this continuous mountains and dense forests, since the rise of the Jurchens, the Liao court does not care too much about this group of defeated generals who are left to fend for themselves.

Zhao Xingde took a deep breath of cold air, exhaled a cloud of white mist, and said slowly: "If the people are like water, water can carry boats and overturn boats, this sentence, General Wang should have heard of it, right?" His voice was low, as if with great determination, before it came out of the depths of his throat.

Wang Hengzhi nodded and said, "I heard that the military advisor said that when the brothers were asked to go down the mountain, I told them not to harm the people. There was a slight regret in his words, the fourth child in the village believed in this the most, but now he is missing a leg, is it really a good person who has no reward?

Zhao Xingde's pupils shrank slightly, as if he was stabbed by Wang Hengzhi's answer, and after a pause, he said slowly: "General Wang, forgive me for being disrespectful, the Han army is hiding in the mountains and dense forests, and in the eyes of the Khitan court, we are also mountain bandits." Wang Hengzhi smiled bitterly: "Actually, it's almost the same, but we still have to abide by some rules, and now this rule is becoming more and more sparse, and in a few generations, I'm afraid we will really become mountain bandits." He sighed heavily, and kicked a rock to the bottom of the cliff.

"Looking at the history books, there are mountain bandits and bandits in the past dynasties, but there are one or two that can achieve the general trend, so as to stir up the luck of the world, and even affect the change of dynasties. Zhao Xingde said slowly.

"What kind of trick?" Wang Hengzhi asked.

"Again, if the people are water, the water can carry the boat and capsize the boat. The more people who are coerced, the greater the momentum, such as Chen Sheng of Qin, Zhang Jiao of Han, and Huangchao of Tang, rising in the recklessness, but can sweep the world, and the court is divided into courts, and can be called the heroes of the world. ”

The wind was strong on the cliff, the cold wind was whining, and no matter how thick the leather jacket was, it was blown through, but Wang Hengzhi was stimulated by him to be reckless, and felt a hot breath gushing out from the depths of his heart, as if something was about to move in his heart, and he listened to Zhao De in silence as he continued.

"Forgive me for being stupid, I have only recently figured out this truth, but there are many talented people and ambitious people in the world, and there must be those who understand this verse, so why can't it be done?" Zhao Xingde smiled and said lightly, "These people are not dead things, not cattle and horses, how can they be so easy to coerce?" It must be promoted by the general trend of the world, and the so-called plan is in the people, and the success is in the sky, which is the meaning. ”

Wang Hengzhi's face involuntarily showed disappointment, but he still didn't give up, and asked in a low voice, "So what?" ”

Zhao Xingde glanced at him, then turned his head to look at the vast mountains in the distance, and said in a deep voice: "The brocade scales were originally things in the pool, and when they turned into dragons in the face of wind and clouds, they were talking about the general trend of the world. Today's situation in Liaodong is similar. ”

"Before the defeat of the Han family, the government of the Liao State treated the Han people better than before, and the Han people also lived and worked in peace and contentment, after the defeat of the Han family, the Liao Dynasty gradually began to pervert, and the tyranny of Yelu Dashi was the most, the Han people were originally the honest and responsible people of the Liao Dynasty, and now their wives are scattered, and the dynasty is not safe, this is the general trend of driving fish for the abyss and creating a general trend for the Han army to ride the wind."

Wang Hengzhi nodded, many of the new brothers who went up the mountain, including the fourth master Tong Yunjie, were all because of this tyranny. He originally thought that Zhao Xingde was just a member of the Xia Kingdom, but who knew that listening to his few words, it was like seeing the sun through the clouds, and they were all joints that he had never thought of. "No wonder Marshal Han was a fierce general back then, but he had to obey the dispatch of Liu Junshi." Wang Hengzhi said secretly, "It's a pity that many strategists below Liu Junshi refused to be unrighteous, and they all died in Liaoyang City. ”

"This Yelu Dashi worships the Khitan in order to unite the hearts of the people in the clan and de-sinicize, which is also a good calculation, but unfortunately, in the chess game he laid out, for us, Liaodong is a flaw." Zhao Xingde smiled coldly.

The more Wang Hengzhi listened, the more fascinated he became, and he couldn't help asking, "What's the flaw?" ”

"This tyrannical government is not unprecedented, when the Wuhu Rebellion and the Northern Dynasties, there are even more than this, as long as the imperial court has the power to control the place, if you want to follow the example of Zhang Jiao Huangchao, I am afraid that it will be broken before it can be done. It's just that the Khitan and Jurchen are fighting each other in Liaodong and regard each other as great enemies, and it is impossible for either side to control the entire territory of Liaodong. And everywhere is the people are not happy, the Han army wants to coerce the people to do things, although it is not easy to say, but it is far easier than the world to undertake peacetime, this opportunity is fleeting, that is, the so-called heaven does not take, but suffers from it. ”