Chapter 65: Expedition to the South
The next day, before dawn, the small courtyard was lively, Xiao Pengcheng and others took the little third son and a group of guys to drive the carriage to come early in the morning, one of which was full of wooden barrels and huge gourds to hold burning knives, this is the whole night last night to prepare things, and the little third son this time the task is also heavy, not only to go to Hangzhou to open a branch of Tongda Carriage and Horse Shop, but also to escort Miss Wan back to Shaoxing The five dynasties and ten countries of those people read all the way.
"Brother Shen, take care all the way, the younger brother is waiting for you to return from a big victory in the capital!" Xiao Pengcheng is a rare seriousman.
"Hehe, don't worry, what's going on with Annan, the opponent of the imperial army, my brother is going south with the army this time, it will be regarded as a play, and the affairs of this capital will be tiring for you!" Shen Chongming said with relief.
"Brother Shen, don't worry, with the two of us in the capital, there will be no problems with everything!" Shi Bingzheng said with a smile, as a court official, he also knew a lot about this war, as Brother Shen said, it was not enough to worry about Annan.
"Well, I'm naturally relieved to have you here, don't say much, brother, I'm going to leave quickly!" Seeing that the sky was gradually brightening, Shen Chongming arched his hand and said to a few people: "Brother Shen, take care!" ”
"Childe, this cloak was sewn by Yumeng a few days ago, and it was draped on his body when he went out to protect himself from the wind and cold!" Just when Shen Chongming was about to get on the horse, Yan Yumeng, who had never shown up, finally walked out with a cloak.
In the light of the torch, the thread on the cloak is clearly visible, and the lines are crooked, which is clearly made last night: "Okay, draped!" Shen Chongming glanced at Yan Yumeng gratefully, and immediately put the black cloak on his body, his body warmed, and his heart was even hotter.
"Childe, take care all the way, Yumeng is waiting for you at home!" Yan Yumeng forgot her shy look last night, and actually took the initiative to hug Shen Chongming, but she startled the others, looking at the feet and looking at the sky.
"Alright, wait until I bring you gifts from Annan!" Shen Chongming held Yan Yumeng's shoulder and said, Yan Yumeng, who was in tears, nodded fiercely: "Hmm! ”
Beat the horse and rushed to the outside of the city, and the south gate was also full of people, and most of the soldiers of the 3,000 battalion of the Shenji Battalion were from the capital, and they were about to go on the expedition, and their families naturally wanted to send them off.
"Brother Shen, you're here!" Just as Shen Chongming was looking back and forth to see where Shuai Qi was, Xiong Dabiao's burly figure appeared in front of him.
"Brother Da Biao, ...... are you" Shen Chongming couldn't help but wonder why he appeared here.
"Little Shenzi, you don't know yet! Senior brother was just transferred to the 3,000 battalion a few days ago, and this time he is also going to go on the expedition? The little junior sister suddenly got out from behind Xiong Dabiao, looked at Shen Chongming with a smile and said.
On the way here just now, Shen Chongming still regretted that he didn't see the little junior sister? Unexpectedly, she had already arrived outside the city in advance.
"Hehe, when was it transferred to the 3,000 battalion!" Shen Chongming turned over and dismounted, looked at Xiong Dabiao, and walked directly towards the little junior sister.
Xiong Dabiao smiled: "A few days ago, in the military competition, I accidentally took the lead, and I was transferred to the 3,000 battalion!" ”
"Senior brother is now the deputy commander of the right post of the 3,000 battalion, and he is also a fifth-grade official like you!" The little junior sister was a little ostentatious.
Shen Chongming was taken aback, and hurriedly arched his hand: "Congratulations!" ”
These three thousand battalions are the same as the Shenji battalion, plus the five military battalions belong to the three major battalions of Jingwei, Jingwei includes the three major battalions of Shangzhiwei, Beijing Wei, and Nanjing Wei, and although the three major battalions of Jingwei belong to the emperor's own army, they are free from the Shangzhiwei, directly obey the emperor's orders, and specialize in the emperor's travel and support in the war, the elite of the absolute elite, even the Jinyi Guard does not dare to easily meddle in the affairs of the three major battalions, and the officials who can serve in the military are all brave and good at fighting, and they are also flat when they are transferred to the military department to serve as civilians, and the rank will not reduce the heart of the Demon Gate.
Therefore, Xiong Dabiao's positive five products are generally the same as Shen Chongming's positive five products, and there is no distinction between who is high and who is low.
In the early years, when Zhu Xizhong, the Duke of Chengguo, served as the commander of the Jingwei Capital, he was a first-class officer, and all the most elite soldiers and horses of this dynasty were under his command, and his authority was unrivaled for a while, so when Xu Jie recommended him, he would say that he had high prestige and sufficient qualifications.
"It's not too early, Brother Shen, you better hurry up and find the handsome!" Seeing that Shen Chongming and his junior sister were entangled, Xiong Dabiao couldn't help but remind.
"Got it!" Shen Chongming turned around and replied, and smiled at the little junior sister who pouted at his mouth: "Little junior sister, go back early!" Wait at home for me to come back! ”
"Well, but Xiao Shenzi, you have to come back earlier, if you come back late, people will ignore you!" The little junior sister said very reluctantly.
"Well, I wrote it down, when I was away, Yumeng was handed over to you to take care of, little junior sister, you have a great responsibility!" Shen Chongming couldn't help but reach out and pinch her little nose.
"Nasty!" The little junior sister slapped away his hand and said shyly, and then asked Xiong Dabiao, who looked up to the side and didn't disturb them: "Senior brother, Xiao Shenzi doesn't know kung fu, you have to take care of him on the battlefield!" ”
"Hey, I know, I'll bring him back to you completely!" Xiong Dabiao looked at Shen Chongming and said with a smile.
Only then did the little junior sister put her mind at ease, let go of Shen Chongming, and walked towards the city gate step by step.
"Alright, let's go! My sister can't lose it! Xiong Dabiao looked at Shen Chongming standing there and stared at the little junior sister, and couldn't help but step forward to persuade him.
Shen Chongming smiled and followed Xiong Dabiao to find Chengguo Gong, who was surrounded by the generals.
Zhu Xizhong is over sixty years old, but he was also born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and he can see at a glance that he was a fierce general back then: "Grandpa Guo, Lord Shen is here!" Xiong Dabiao squeezed forward and said.
The generals who were surrounding Grandpa Guo and complimenting him were stunned, and they all turned their heads to look at Shen Chongming, but they wanted to see that bastard was making trouble again.
"Hehe, generals, the subordinate is polite here!" Shen Chongming came up and saluted Cheng Guogong again: "Shen Chongming, the left senator of the General Administration Department of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, pays a visit to Grandpa Guo!" ”
Like most martial artists, Cheng Guogong was also very uninterested in this prison army, and when he saw Shen Chongming's face white and beardless, he felt even more uncomfortable, and bowed his head slightly: "Excuse me!" Then he commanded with full anger: "The generals will listen to the order and immediately gather people and horses to pull out the camp and go to Tongzhou!" ”
All the generals suddenly responded, glanced at Shen Chongming in unison, and retreated one after another.
Shen Chongming was a little embarrassed, but he didn't dare to get angry, and asked with a smiling face: "Grandpa Guo, I don't know what the route of this march is?" The lower officials are also so knowledgeable! ”
"Ahem, tell him the route of the march!" Cheng Guogong commanded a guard behind him, and walked away with the rest of the people without looking at Shen Chongming.
Shen Chongming's shoulders collapsed, and he couldn't help but be a little discouraged, it seemed that he still didn't estimate the situation enough! With the attitude of Grandpa Guo, the gifts prepared are useless.
"Lord Shen, you're okay!" The person who stayed behind to inform Shen Chongming of the route looked at him and asked with a smile in his heart.
"Oh, that's fine, that ...... Jin Yiwei,! Looking at the person in front of him, Shen Chongming was dumbfounded, just now he just paid attention to Grandpa Guo, but he didn't realize that the person behind him turned out to be a brocade guard in a flying fish suit: The young master can't cheat anymore.
"Hehe, Lord Shen has good eyesight!" The man smiled, but it was full of sarcasm.
Cheng Guogong's anger is just that, Shen Chongming has a close relationship with Liu Shou, how can he be afraid of Jinyiwei like an ordinary official.
"Ahem, do you recognize Liu Shou and Liu Qianhu!" Shen Chongming raised his head and said, but he was very happy in his heart, it turned out that there was a reason why this Chengguo Gong had such a bad temper, and he was followed by Jin Yiwei's blatant surveillance, and whoever put it on his head would be grumpy.
"Liu Qianhu, naturally I know, could it be that Lord Shen also knows Liu Qianhu!" Liu Shouyou is the signature figure of Jinyiwei, and most of the major cases are handled by him, which is the idol of ordinary Jinyiwei Xiaoxiao.
And Shen Chongming is the one in front of him. Although he is also a Jinyi guard, he is responsible for the safety of Cheng Guogong, the commander of the envoy, and he admires Liu Shouyou very much.
"Of course I know, Lord Liu and this official are good brothers!" Shen Chongming had a hint of pride on his face, just because of this relationship, the Jinyi Guard, which everyone feared, was harmless to him at all.
Seeing that his expression didn't look like a fake, the attitude of this Jinyi Wei Colonel immediately changed, and he smiled and said, "Disrespectful, disrespectful!" ”
"Hehe, let's talk about it! How this march was arranged! Shen Chongming waved his hand and said with a big smile.
"If you go back to your lordship, we will have a total of 2,000 people on this trip, first rush to Tongzhou, and then go directly south by water, and then turn west into Huguang, and then rush to the border of Guangxi by horse!" Colonel Jin Yiwei explained the marching route concisely and concisely.
This route was exactly what Shen Chongming wanted, and he happened to take Miss Wan Da with him, and then he went west with the army, and they continued south to Hangzhou.
"That's very good, by the way, this official has something to bother you, you come with me!" Walk forward with your family, but you need to say hello in advance, otherwise you will be treated as a spy.
With Colonel Jinyiwei, Shen Chongming instructed the third son to drive the carriage with men to follow the army, and at the same time took two gourds of good wine for Colonel Jinyiwei to hold, and went directly to Grandpa Guo to pull a relationship.
After the soldiers and horses were assembled, they moved forward slowly, and the representatives of the various yamen who came to the strong march did not stay much, and slipped back to the city directly in a sedan chair.
Cheng Guogong was old, and he didn't want to suffer from wind and frost anymore, so he sat directly in a troika and closed his eyes to recuperate.
"Grandpa Guo, Lord Shen of the prison army asks to see you!" Outside, Hu Congjin said through the curtain of the car.
Cheng Guogong frowned, stretched out his hand to lift the curtain and asked, "What's the matter!" As soon as the words came out, he was stupid, and his servant was holding two jugs of wine.
"Grandpa Guo, the best burning knife!" The one who was riding on the horse followed the carriage, pointed to the two jugs of wine in the arms of the Jinyi Wei Xiaoxiao, and smiled flatteringly.
As soon as he heard this, Cheng Guogong immediately laughed, his eyes were full of satisfaction, he was older, and there were more problems with this body, and he invited a bullshit doctor, and even let himself avoid drinking spirits, and the grandfather of the country, who stayed at home all the year round, immediately reached the point of running out of food, and the old wife cried and cried as soon as she found out that she drank the burning knife, and the children were also persuaded every day, in order to make the ears quiet, they could only drink some ordinary rice wine.
Unexpectedly, when this army went out to fight, someone sent his favorite burning knife, which really knew his heart too well.
Thinking about it, Grandpa Guo, who had been keeping a straight face, finally showed a smile: "Lord Xiao Shen, you're polite!" ”