Chapter 598: Pouring Oil
In the hottest days after autumn, the wind blows on people's bodies, and the skin feels burning, but several large pastures outside the Second Division City are lively and noisy, and the overlapping figures in the sun are sweating profusely for the delivery and distribution of war horses, and a large number of caravans occupy the official road leading to the Second Division City in Dawan, and they continue to see each other in the two cities.
"I don't know what the family looks like, the princes of all over the world shouldn't fight anymore......."
Xun Chen stood on the city wall, looking at the outline of the green ridge in the east. Since Yuan Shao's death, he originally went incognito to help the family, but after all, he was invited out by Xun Yu to organize the relationship between the caravans and the army, and often gave advice to the Gongsun Governor, and it felt like returning to being a strategist under Yuan Shao, but it was different.
At the beginning of the period, he didn't want to get involved in these things, and he was not optimistic about the way to save the country by going west, but along the way to the west, the Gongsun Dudu showed a different attitude from the original Han army, slaughtering the city and killing people, and maintaining stability and support, and the caravan in the rear hurriedly filled the bloody towns that were killed, while appeasing the local people, while secretly collecting wealth, making outsiders afraid of the army, and maintaining a little good impression of the Han people outside the army.
Indirectly, the benefits of this good feeling have been turned into heavy logistics to nourish the army's advance, a large number of craftsmen, people's husbands, and even many Han women are also helping to do things in the rear team, and the soldiers who march and fight on the front line also have a rest every three or five times, they can see many companions, speak familiar Chinese, and listen to the news that they bring to the rear Han, and the homesickness is more or less relieved.
It's autumn now, and when the snow melts through winter and spring, there will be more Han Dynasty caravans, and even merchants from the Western Regions will come here to follow the army around to collect wealth, but only if the Western Expeditionary Army can go further.
"Perhaps, we can really hit the side of the Great Qin people and see what the extreme west is like, and it will really be worth the trip."
Xun Chen looked at the foothills in the distance and breathed a sigh of relief, followed the army to Dawan and saw the outside world, which made his heart shake, and it also made him even a lot of people, some other emotions, his horizons widened, and then looked back at the original country infighting, the division of princes, even Yuan Shao, in his memory turned into a small dust.
"A bunch of clowns jumping off the beam......"
"Xun Junshi ......"
While he was muttering softly, he faintly heard the shouts of human voices, turned his head slightly, and the voice came again, and a figure ran up from the wall below. Xun Chen frowned: "Why are you so flustered?" ”
"Bad news from the west....." The attendant gasped for breath, calmed down for a while, and whispered a few words close to Xun Chen's side.
The scribe turned his head and glanced at the direction of the camp outside the city, his eyelids jumped wildly, and in the next second, he walked directly down the city wall with his sleeves, walked over quickly and got into the waiting carriage, "...... Go to the barracks. With that, he gave the wheel, and rolled slowly, and drove straight out of the city gates.
Things came suddenly, so that the people who received the news were unexpected, as the news spread, in the pasture outside the city, Lu Bu was taking Lu Lingqi to select war horses, and he had been fighting for many years, and the red rabbit who accompanied him was already old, and he would not be able to go to the battlefield again in another year or two.
"Ershi City is a place where Dawan specializes in cultivating good horses, and there are twenty horses in the sweat and blood, but it's a pity that it is a little difficult to find another red rabbit......" Lu Bu checked the mouth of a white horse, waved his hand to let the soldiers pull it away, and as he spoke, he saw Sun Ce from Jiangdong walking out with a long mane with gray and white hooves.
"..... Lingqi, do you pick another one among them and give up your curly-haired red rabbit to your father..... Lingqi?" The mighty figure walked a few steps, and when he turned around, there was still a girl's figure, and he was about to ask the soldiers beside him, when he saw the rear of the passing, and the daughter seemed to be arguing with him......
"It's obvious that you don't walk long eyes....."
“…… It's rude, but it's a lot. ”
"The quibble..... it's clear that you only care about talking to others and don't look at the road." Lu Lingqi is tall, dressed in armor, and the cloak on her back looks even more heroic, and her momentum in speaking surpasses the other party.
Lu Xun stood in place with embarrassment, and gave his hand again and again: "Yes, yes..... Xun is at fault first." ”
"Well, now that you know it's wrong, forget it, you're busy with you." Lu Lingqi still wanted to follow her father to see the war horse, but she didn't have much mood to stay, and she waved the person away and was about to turn around, when she met Lu Bu who came over, "Why did Daddy come over." ”
"Seeing that you haven't kept up, come over and see if you're in trouble, did that person bully you?" Lu Bu was tall, and at a glance he saw the top of the head of the young man who had just walked away, "I just heard you talking, and the accent seems to be from Jiangdong, do you want to find Sun Ce to apologize for your father." ”
"He's already paid for it." Lu Lingqi held her little hand behind her back, raised her chin, and snorted softly: "Besides, who dares to bully Wen Hou's daughter, right?" Daddy is fierce, and they are looking for teeth all over the ground! ”
"Eccentric."
Lu Bu smiled and touched her head, but his eyes were deflected, someone came from behind to this side, it was a cavalryman in the Bingzhou army, someone squeezed through the bustling crowd, and approached the arch: "Wenhou, General Gao asked the humble post to invite you and the young lady to go back." ”
"What's going on in the camp?"
The soldier looked around and lowered his voice: "Something is wrong..... only one interpreter escaped back from the team that sent the envoy to rest, and the atmosphere on the side of Gongsun Dudu was a little wrong, General Gao asked Wen Hou to go back." ”
"Dad, let's go back quickly."
Hearing this, the girl's face was not ugly, and she reached out to pull her father next to her. Lu Bu turned his head to look at her, nodded, and was silent for a moment: "Rest has finally given the governor a reason to send troops." Is it bad to be alive? I have to die......"
Riding out of the pasture, the sound of trumpets could be faintly heard in the distance, and a large number of herald cavalry could see them running by on the road. Sun Ce was returning to the barracks with a newly acquired sweaty horse, and the two thousand Jiangdong cavalry under his command had gathered, and there were signs of large-scale mobilization of soldiers from the Chinese army in the distance.
"Gongjin, what's going on?"
Zhou Yu, who was already dressed in military uniform, turned over and dismounted, with a rare solemn look on his face: "The team of messengers who went to rest was killed by their emperor...... The old general Gongsun may also be dead....... it seems that this time the governor is going to move seriously. ”
Sun Ce turned over and shouted: "Go!" ”
On the battlefield, the generals of an army will inevitably die, but Gongsun Yue has a very good relationship with everyone, on the one hand, although he has the intention of encircling everyone on behalf of Gongsun Yue, but the situation is not fake, and many people have received this love. On the other hand, the old general has a high reputation in the north, when the right Beiping was broken by the Wuhuan people, the wife and children of the family were slaughtered, that is, the queen of the extinction, the soldiers in the army, the middle and lower generals took great care of the old man, in order to avoid a war, the envoy rested, everyone admired, but after the news of the death was returned, the whole army was like boiling oil poured into the water, and the pot exploded.
When Sun Ce led Zhou Yu to gallop to the Chinese army on horseback, some middle- and lower-level generals were already kneeling down on one knee outside the tent and waiting for orders, and some excitedly held knives and shouted: "Avenge the old general-" "The dignified envoy..... who is making a trick behind his back, a group of dog thieves!" "There's nothing to say, kill the past, take their emperor's head to sacrifice the heroic soul of the old general!"
Not far away, the horse's hooves suddenly opened and flew on the jade chase, and the eight snake spears rushed away the intercepting soldiers, stationed their horses outside the tent, and shouted loudly: "Dudu! The old generals have all had their heads cut off, and we're waiting for a fart, let's kill them directly-"
Subsequently, Lu Bu and Lu Lingqi also galloped over, and the girl gave her hand on horseback: "Lingqi is willing to be a pioneer!" Soon, Pan Feng, Zhao Yun, Yan Rou, Xiahou Yuan..... and other generals in the army also rushed over.
For a while, the tent was full of people, and the heroes were excited.