Chapter 64: Post-War Chatter
Heavy snow covers the mountains, piling up silver and jade.
The cold wind seemed to roar between heaven and earth, and Zhang Zhen and the five stood on the Shanggu Pass.
Zhang Zhen looked at the snow outside the pass, feeling the biting cold wind, and he remembered Li Yi's "Northern Expedition" in the Tang Dynasty:
The sea breeze is cold after the snow in the Tianshan Mountains,
The transverse flute is biased, and it is difficult to travel.
300,000 people were recruited in the moraine,
Looking back at the middle of the month for a while.
"Alas!" Zhang Zhen couldn't help sighing, shook his head, shook off this tragic thought, and then said to Cheng Pu: "Demou to rectify the soldiers and horses, we don't have much time to delay, tomorrow we are ready to cross Baishan and go to Pingcheng." ”
"Yes, my lord." Cheng Pu responded and prepared to go down.
"Oh! By the way, Demou, let the soldiers have a good meal tonight, out of Shanggu Pass, it is the Xianbei realm, and I am afraid that the future journey will be more dangerous. ”
"No." Cheng Pu went down to arrange it.
"Da Rong, you immediately report eight hundred miles to the state to assassinate Lord Shizhang, saying that you have taken Shanggu Pass, and let him send troops to garrison it."
"Yes!"
After Zu Mao left, Zhang Zhen continued: "You are still used to being good and evil. ”
Wen Chou replied impatiently: "Lord, as long as I can kill the Xianbei dog thief, I feel that I am full of energy, more than with women." ”
Yan Liang looked at Zhang Zhen, then looked at it, and said with emotion: "I think, this is the wisest choice in my life, although my brothers still have some courage, but they can't kill 40,000 Xianbei cavalry in less than a month." What the lord said before, his subordinates no longer have the slightest doubt. ”
"Oh! Isn't it 'driving out Xianbei and taking off this head'? Zhang Zhen said indifferently, "But it will take some time." ”
"It's not this sentence, it's the sentence 'Xianbei is raging on the side, and the people are miserable'." Yan Liang's face was a little hot, and he explained embarrassedly.
"Hahaha, Boshan, the number one general in our army, there will be times when you blush." Zhang Zhen didn't laugh out loud when he saw this, "I know that Boshan doesn't mean this, since the day I met the two of them, I have already determined it." ”
"Hehe, big brother, your expression really looks like a deep resentful woman." Wen Chou's two big eyes narrowed into a crescent moon.
Yan Liang looked indifferently into the distance, as if a person was talking to himself: "Do you know? Lord, my greatest wish in this life is to avenge my clansmen, when I heard that my lord slaughtered millions of Wuhuan people in a war, maybe the rumors are not very true, but we believe that it is true. After that, my two brothers decided that they would follow the lord in this life. I may have been a little skeptical about the strength of the lord before, but after this time, I believe it. ”
Seeing that Yan Liang was serious, Zhang Zhen also empathized and asked, "Oh? What to believe. ”
"The name of the butcher of the lord."
Zhang Zhen stood stunned on the spot, but after a moment, he returned to his original state.
Seeing this, Yan Liang secretly approved, and continued: "It is precisely because of the name of the lord that we decided to follow the lord. ”
"Yes! Lord, we have long been unaccustomed to these foreign races, what Huairou, what is Shanyu, what is the magnanimity of a great country, what is the annual tribute, and it is not to rob the property of the big man, so I am not angry when I look at Lao Tzu. Wen Chou scolded and scolded.
Zhang Zhen nodded: "Hmm!" Because they can only enjoy, they don't know the suffering of Biansai, they don't care about the lives of the people, they don't understand the cruelty of the alien race, they are the real devils who eat people and don't spit out bones, the only thing I can do now is to leave not a single captive of the alien race, not a single one. "No wonder Yan Liang said that he was a butcher, because he killed all the Xianbei cavalry who had surrendered, and the blood that flowed melted the snow all over the ground.
Yan Liang and Wen Chou's eyes were slightly red, and they were silent, they should have remembered the sad past.
......
Three days later.
And Taiyuan.
"Urgent...!" A soldier hurried into the city, and no one dared to stop him, and ran directly to the Taishou Mansion.
The horses' hooves clattered through the icy streets.
On the side of the street, the taverns were chattering.
"Could it be that the new general Zhenbei was defeated so quickly?"
"I don't know, I heard that 30,000 iron cavalry were dispatched this time, but the Xianbei cavalry was 100,000."
"Hmmm! 30,000 against 100,000 is tantamount to looking for death, and there have been a few armies before that have not returned with a feather. ”
"Hehe, you don't know a secret, let me tell you, this Zhenbei general is the Linxiang Marquis who is known as the slaughter of 10,000 people, and Xuanwu Taishou Zhang Zhen."
"What?"
"How do you know?"
"Hehe, let me tell you, my brother-in-law is the guard of the city gate, and he was on duty that day, but he saw it with his own eyes, believe it or not."
"If that's the case, then this emergency report may have defeated Xianbei."
"Indeed, that's a butcher who slaughtered millions, tens of thousands of Xianbei are not enough for him to cut!"
After hearing this, a chill suddenly swept through their bodies.
In a corner of the tavern, a person sat drinking alone, and when he heard the news of General Zhenbei, he also stopped the wine bowl in his hand, and a pair of tiger eyes flashed brightly.
If Zhang Zhen uses his discerning eyes to recognize people, he will be able to see who this person is, Hao Zhao, the word Bodao, a native of Taiyuan. He is the Zhenxi general of Wei State, the general of Chen Cang, and he is also a talent who can stop Zhuge Liang.
Why didn't he take refuge in Zhang Wen? Because Hao Zhao knew that Zhang Wen's defense was okay, if he was allowed to attack Xianbei, he was afraid that he would only end up in a fiasco. Fortunately, Zhang Wen also had self-knowledge and did not attack Xianbei, otherwise Xianbei would have already entered Taiyuan.
He also knew about Zhang Zhen, and it was also his understanding that made him curious, there are still such people in this world.
"Goodong", a bowl of wine ignited the heat in Hao Zhao's heart in an instant, and he decided to go to Xuansu.
......
Taishou House.
Zhang Wen sat on the main seat and said worriedly: "Lu Zhonglang, you said that it has been nearly a month now, why hasn't there been news from Linxianghou, isn't it because he was humiliated..." ”
Lu Zhi hurriedly spoke: "Thorn Shi doesn't have to worry, I believe that news of them will come soon." ”
"Hmmm! It's just that the soldiers and horses who went out to Xianbei in the first few times were all defeated, and I just couldn't rest assured. ”
"Feilu, is he an ordinary person, I believe that he will be able to drive away Xianbei, maybe it is the war Jiao, so he has no time to deliver the news for a while."
"Report..., border emergency." A soldier hurried into the chamber.
Zhang Wen and Lu Zhi looked at each other and smiled, and hurriedly got up and walked forward.
Lu Zhi walked in three steps and two steps to the soldier: "Show me." ”
The soldier took out the letter, Lu Zhi eagerly took it, and after a while, he said, "Hahaha, it's really worthy of being a townsman, hahaha!" ”
Zhang Wen was taken aback, didn't this old man go crazy, and hurriedly asked, "Lu Zhonglang, did General Zhenbei win a victory?" Don't know how to kill the enemy? ”
Lu Zhi didn't say anything, and directly handed the letter in his hand to Zhang Wen.
Zhang Wen closed, his pupils dilated, and he was so shocked that he didn't listen to the hand holding the letter: "This... This...! ”
Seeing Zhang Wen so out of shape, Lu Zhi stroked the gray one-foot long beard with satisfaction: "If it were someone else, the old man promised to tear the letter to shreds with one hand, no matter how you look at it, it would be a lie about the military situation: our army was about half a month, destroyed 40,000 Xianbei cavalry, captured Shanggu Pass, and there were less than 500 people who escaped (the part that Fu Luohan fled), and the rest of Xianbei were all killed, and none of them survived." I believe that Linxianghou is different, and it is not possible for a normal person to destroy Wuhuan and slaughter hundreds of thousands of people and recover the land of Sanhan before the weak crown. That's why I believe that what is said in this letter must be true. ”
"This really makes me ashamed, when Xianbei ravaged Biansaiduo, I don't want to be in the countryside for less than half a month to have exterminated Xianbei in Youzhou, it's really a hero out of a teenager!"