Final Chapter. 217. Blood debt and blood repayment
Chen Ziling didn't want to believe this explanation, and he couldn't believe that his brothers were all blind. After he went to inspect it in person, he found that there were still 200 elite veterans of the Northern Army, and they had also disappeared with them!
They were rebelled by Zhuang Naiwen and Lu Dafang, the two dog officials? Or has it been quietly killed? Chen Ziling, who was not good at investigating cases, only felt a headache at this time, and he couldn't capture the slightest bit of thought.
After retiring the chief of the guard, Chen Ziling walked out of the Woniucheng County Office with a full heart. He took a deep breath of the sultry air, looked up at the moon that had just risen, and the noise of the city was full of his ears, and the depression in his heart was temporarily relieved.
As he walked aimlessly, he recalled all the things he had done after he took command of the expedition; When he knew that Wang Yi's thin and cold face appeared in his mind, he suddenly found that this was the first time he had left the assistance of the "Chang'an Parents Official".
In the old days, he was only responsible for killing the enemy and boosting morale; The rest of the army's mundane affairs will be handled properly by Wang Junshi, and there is no need to worry about it at all.
But now that he has only been away from Mr. Wang for a few days, he can no longer feel the cheerfulness of the commander of the First Army who is high-spirited and scolds Fang Xuan; A gust of night wind blew and hit Chen Ziling's body, which also made him feel lonely and lonely from the bottom of his heart.
Walking around, Chen Ziling stopped in front of the shop of a tavern. As early as when he arrived in Woniu City, the shopkeeper of this tavern had already moved his family to avoid trouble. Chen Ziling gently pushed open the door of the tavern, and the house was already in a mess. After careful searching, he finally found a jar of Fenjiu left in the corner of the warehouse.
Due to improper cellaring, the aroma of the wine has run out of most of it, but the strength of the wine is still there; Chen Ziling returned to the county government with the wine jar, drinking stuffy wine while thinking about a solution to the dilemma in front of him.
Chen Ziling believes that although the current situation has become a mess, the Qin army still has an absolute advantage; So the next thing he and Wang Yi need to do is just find a thread in this mess......
Depending on the mood of the person, the amount of alcohol consumed will also change. As the saying goes, when a person is happy, the amount of alcohol is often higher than usual; But if you are full of worries and depressed, it is easy to get drunk. The so-called wine is more sorrowful, and this is also the truth.
Unconsciously, Chen Ziling, who had a good amount of alcohol, poured himself drunk because of this small jar of Fen wine; As for the way to solve the problem, naturally I haven't come up with a single one......
The next morning, Chen Ziling was still asleep, only to feel that someone around him was constantly pushing him; It didn't take long for a cold, moist cotton handkerchief to cover his eyes, instantly waking him up from the chaos.
"What's the matter!"
Chen Ziling knew the character of the head of the guard, if there was no big emergency, he would never wake himself up in such a hurry!
"Chen Shuai, the sky is falling...... You'd better sober up and slow down before you ......"
After Chen Ziling wiped his face and shook his heavy head repeatedly, the head of the Pan guard told him what happened last night with tears.
The chief of the guard was not very old, and his family's surname was Pan. Since the family has been farming for a living for generations, the name is naturally a bit cheesy, called Mancai. When he was 14 years old, a great drought struck the land of Sanqin, and the yield of wheat plummeted by 60%. Although it has not yet reached the point where it is easy to eat and starve, the lives of ordinary people are also stretched.
As the so-called house leakage coincides with overnight rain, the amount of food increases in the year of famine; Pan Laohan really couldn't afford to raise this "half-big, eater" Pan Mancai, so he asked an acquaintance to send his son to the Qin army as a soldier, just to eat a mouthful of food.
Pan Mancai, who was only 14 years old at the time, was already as tall as an adult man; But he can't hang two taels of flesh on his body and the chubby skeleton on his face, he is still a typical young man, and he can't hide the eyes of people with a heart at all. It was also by chance that Pan Mancai, who was about to be sent home, was seen in his eyes and happy by Chen Ziling, the head of the guard of the Qin Palace, with the honesty and simplicity of the peasant children, as well as the patience and meticulousness tempered in the process of farming.
In this way, the fourteen-year-old Pan Mancai became a little guard of the Qin Palace, and had a new name, called Pan Sheng!
Therefore, Chen Ziling can be described as a reinvention of grace for Pan Sheng, and the relationship between the two is like a master and a father. And yesterday's Chen Ziling's boredom and distress were also seen in his eyes; Therefore, when he left from the county office, he did not return to the camp to rest; Instead, he rode out of Woniu City overnight, wanting to find Wang Yi's subordinates who were halfway up, urging them to rush to Woniu City to alleviate the danger of military rations.
When Pan Sheng's horse crossed thirty miles south of Woniucheng, there were many corpses of the Qin army on both sides of the official road; Rarely, you can also find ordinary people shirtless or in green clothes and hats. The closer you get to the direction of Hedong City, the more corpses there are next to the official road; It wasn't until he had passed through a rare "vacuum zone" and chased him down less than thirty miles that he could already smell the rancid smell coming from the direction of Hedong City!
But whether it was the military advisor Wang Yi, or the chariots and horses of the baggage battalion, or even the living mouth of a Qin army soldier, Pan Sheng couldn't find it. Knowing that it was difficult for him to be alone, he did not hesitate any longer, quickly dismissed the horse's head, and immediately rushed back to Woniu City to move troops.
It wasn't until the beginning of the hour that the exhausted Pan Sheng finally rushed back to the city. He quickly summoned all the sentinel spies, and distributed all the horses in Woniu City and Lianhua County, and strictly ordered to search for the military advisor Wang Yi and the baggage granary that "disappeared out of thin air", to see people alive and corpses to die!
It was not until the beginning of the hour that a sentinel returned to the city to report; He said that he found a headless male corpse on the edge of a mountain forest in a middle of nowhere, wearing a typical scribe's gauze hood......
At this time, it was already a lot of light, and the headless male corpse was also transported outside Woniu City; Pan Sheng had just gone outside the city to verify his identity, and he also retrieved the jade pendant that Wang Yi was wearing......
There is no chance of any luck anymore.
Pan Sheng's words came out of his lips, no less than a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and Chen Ziling, who was shocked, was dizzy! After a long time, Chen Ziling came to his senses. But as soon as he wanted to open his mouth to ask about the specific situation, he felt that his throat was blocked by a mouthful of phlegm, and his breath did not slow down, and there was a sharp pain in his chest, and his eyes were dark, and he fainted on the spot......
At present, Chen Ziling is in his prime, and his body that has been boiled out of his years of military career is also extremely healthy. Because of the fatigue accumulated from the previous day and night fighting, coupled with the exhaustion caused by the frequent bad news, and the smell of alcohol accumulated last night, there was such a situation.
After Pan Sheng's patting, Chen Ziling woke up slowly, turned his head and spit out the mouthful of "heart fire phlegm", gasped a few breaths vigorously, and then resolutely commanded:
"Pass on a certain general, in a quarter of an hour...... Call...... Outside the East City of Woniu, the whole army is reorganized; The army is divided into two routes, and immediately set out for the battle! ”
After hearing this, Pan Sheng thought that he had just woken up, and his mind was not very clear, so he planned to speak out to dissuade him; But when I think about it again, it seems that I have no other choice than this method!
At present, the whole army has run out of food, and Wang Yi's body is also divided into two parts, and the entire baggage battalion is gone. If you continue to stay in Woniu City and Lianhua County now, it is already pointless to wait for death.
Although I don't know why the "villagers and wounded soldiers" who were used as bait, and even the small number of elite armor soldiers of the Qin army, disappeared; But since things have developed to such a field, it can already be asserted that they must have fallen for Zhou Changan's dog thief's delaying tactics!
Since the whole army has run out of food, there is only one way to win quickly. The city defense of the city is solid, and they are now without the assistance of siege equipment, so they can only leave a suspicious army to deceive the enemy, and they cannot launch an offensive; Therefore, the elite of the whole army changed to the north bank of the Yu River, took Huaiqing Mansion, a small county on Zhongzhou Road, as a breakthrough, and waved the army to Yanjing, which was the only chance for a quick victory.
Although this plan is very dangerous, but fortunately, Zhongzhou Road is a large agricultural province, and there must be a wide range of grain stocks in the villages, counties, and state capitals along the way; As for the suspicious army left in Woniu City, they can also supply on the spot and "collect" food from nearby villages and counties......
In the future, the 8,000 black cavalry army will re-eliminate the grain road bandits, and the food and ordnance that Di Ting will be able to be sent to the city of Woniu in a steady stream, and this so-called suspicious soldier, with the assistance of 8,000 black cavalry, plus the newly replenished grain, grass and ordnance, even if it can't take the city of Bingzhou, it is enough to lock Zhou Chang'an, Zheng Qian, and Wang Kenong, the governor of the Three Jin Dynasty, firmly locked in the city of Bingzhou!
So Pan Sheng thinks about it now, no matter whether Chen Ziling's strategy of entering the army is hasty or not, they have no choice, and they must take this step as soon as possible!
A quarter of an hour later, Chen Ziling hung the "Sword of the Son of Heaven" on his waist and appeared on the east tower of Woniu City. In the crook of his right arm, there is also a white porcelain urn.
"The soldiers of each battalion, the township party of Sanqin! The "person" in my arms is Mr. Wang, a military advisor who was killed by thieves. Yes, in order to prevent the cholera epidemic from raging, I had to bear the pain and cremate his body. But the blood feud of the military division has not been avenged; And the head of the corpse has not been found! So I didn't send him back to Chang'an for burial; Because even if Mr. Wang is sent back to his hometown, his spirit in heaven will not be able to rest for a moment! ”
When Chen Ziling said this, a roar suddenly came from the city:
"Chen Shuai, who killed Mr. Wang?"
Hearing this, Chen Ziling quickly pulled out the "Son of Heaven Sword" on his waist and slowly slashed through the void......
"Mr. Wang's murderer was not a single person. The land of the Three Jin Dynasty, and even the entire Northern Yan Dynasty, are all involved, and no one can get out of it, and whoever has it in their hands ......"
Speaking of this, Chen Ziling's eyes were red, and he choked for a long time before he spit out the second half of the sentence in a low voice:
"Whose hands are ...... All stained with Mr. Wang's blood! This is a blood debt higher than the sky and deeper than the sea, and each of them must pay it with blood! ”