Chapter 42: The Scenery of the North

In the early morning of the second day, when the sky was dark, Zhao Chen had already woken up!

He walked outside with great interest, and Yue Fei, Wang Gui, and Zhang Xian followed behind him! These three people are now unofficial and unemployed, equivalent to his guards! With such three innate masters as guards, there are not many people in the world who can kill him!

These days, Zhao Chen is suffocated in the small courtyard, it is really boring, today he can really understand the scenery of Tongguan City!

Tongguan City is a military city, and there are no ordinary people here except soldiers! The area of the city is not very large, but the height and thickness of the city wall are almost comparable to Kaifeng City! In all dynasties, Tongguan has been continuously repaired, even if the Great Song Dynasty was established, the strategic position of Tongguan is not as important as before, but the emperor of the Song Dynasty has also repaired here several times!

It's the second day of February, and the weather in the northwest is still very cold!

When he first got up in the morning, Zhao Chen felt that the sky was gloomy, and when they wandered around Tongguan City for a while, and when they came to the Tongguan City Wall, there was fluttering light snow in the sky!

Snowflakes fell on Zhao Chen's body, and Zhao Chen felt cool!

He looked into the distance, and saw that the mountains in the distance were also covered with snow, but these white snow were snow in winter, and it could not be melted away in a short time!

"The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow! Looking inside and outside the Great Wall, only the remnants are reckless, up and down the big river, and suddenly lost the surging! Mountain dance silver snake, the original Chi wax elephant, want to be higher than the heavenly princess! Only now can I truly comprehend the heroic temperament of this poem! The great man at the beginning was really angry and able to make such majestic poems! Zhao Chen looked into the distance, but in his heart he remembered this Qinyuan spring snow!

In his previous life, as a high school student, he didn't know what was good about this poem, but now as a prince and the prince of the country, he has experienced so many things, and he finally truly understands this poem and feels the cleansing of his soul by this poem!

"There is no Great Wall here, only Tongguan here! I'm not that great man, I don't have my own army under my command! But my identity is different, sooner or later I will master the country, and I will achieve my dreams! Zhao Chen said secretly.

He turned around and continued to move forward with Yue Fei, Wang Gui, and Zhang Xian, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the weather was getting colder and colder!

This Tongguan City is extremely important, and there were originally a lot of soldiers on the city wall, but since the heavy snow fell, the soldiers were all hiding, and there was not a single soldier on the city wall!

"Is this the Folded Family? The main faction of the strongest Western Army of my Great Song Dynasty? Walking to the position of a battlement, Zhao Chen couldn't help but say.

"Your Highness, relying on such a broken army, you may not be able to hold Tongguan!" Yue Fei frowned and said.

"Oh?" Zhao Chen was stunned.

"This Zhejia army is not as good as Liu Guangshi's Liu family army, and it is not even as good as many rebels outside Xiangzhou City! Although this Tong Pass is a dangerous pass in the world, it also depends on who guards it! Relying on such a broken army to guard Tongguan, I am afraid that as soon as the Jin soldiers come, they will break and flee! Yue Fei said.

"Are you saying it's still very dangerous to stay in Tongguan right now?" A hint of surprise appeared in Zhao Chen's eyes and said.

"Yes! Very dangerous! When His Highness discussed with you yesterday, I thought that the Zhejia army would be able to hold Tongguan, but now it seems that this is impossible! Your Highness, we must leave Tongguan immediately! Yue Fei said.

"Am I going to run for my life again?" Zhao Chen smiled bitterly.

"There's no way around it! Your Highness, the most important thing is to keep your useful body now! Why don't we go and see him now, and let him escort us out of Tongguan!" His Royal Highness is the crown prince, and his status is precious, how can he stay in a pass all the time? As His Royal Highness, he should be in Chang'an City now! Yue Fei said.

"Let's wait a little longer, the Jurchens haven't come to Shaanzhou yet, and they are still a long way from Tongguan! Let's take another look! If the Jurchens come to Shaanzhou, this Tongguan is still unreliable, and we can escape from here! Zhao Chen said.

The snow was flying, Zhao Chen's body had turned white, and at this moment he felt like this snowflake, fluttering, and he couldn't help himself! He is obviously the prince of the Great Song Dynasty, and his identity is extremely noble, but he is extremely alive! The Jurchens wanted to kill him, their ninth uncle Kang Wang Zhao wanted to kill him, and Zhe Keqiu and others wanted to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes!

"I'm not as good as an ordinary person! Forget it, in the troubled times, it's good to be able to survive! I still have to be strong, accumulate strength, and one day in the future, I will definitely be able to truly control my own destiny! A look of determination appeared in Zhao Chen's eyes!

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This snow did not stop for five days, and on the seventh day of the second month, a line of cavalry arrived under Tongguan! These cavalrymen were dressed in the costumes of the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, and they were soldiers who were sent out to find out the news!

Hearing that these people were returning, he hurriedly asked these people to come and see him!

"Have you found out about the Jurchens?" The men fell to their knees and immediately asked.

"General, the Jurchens are attacking Shaanzhou! I'm afraid that Shaanzhou will fall soon! An adjutant said.

"Sure enough...... They have already attacked Shaanzhou! "It's a stupid and authentic thing.

Shaanzhou is now the area of Sanmenxia in Henan, where it is not far from Tongguan! If it is conquered there, with the speed of the Jurchen cavalry, I am afraid that it will be possible to come to the bottom of Tongguan within two or three days! Originally, there was the rolling Yellow River next to Tongguan, but now the weather is cold and the Yellow River is frozen, so it can't stop the Jurchens at all!

"Father, I have already sent someone to inform Yao Gu, Yao Gu has already led the Yao family army towards Tongguan!" Orihiko next to him said.

"Excellent! It looks like we're going to retreat from Tongguan! Zhe Keqiu gritted his teeth and said.

He was very reluctant in his heart, for him, Tongguan was his foundation, and he had been operating here for a long time, but now he wanted to give up this place to outsiders! There is no way, the Jurchens are menacing, he is definitely not the opponent of the Jurchens!

"That's it, that's it...... Stay there, even if there is no firewood! As long as the Zhejia Army is still in my hands, as long as the prince is still under my control, it will be very easy to turn over in the future! Yan Zhi, you immediately send someone to inform His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and say that we are leaving Tongguan! "Fold, ask.

At that moment, Zhi Yanzhi had left, and Zhi Keqiu stood in his room and let out a long sigh.

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Zhao Chen is still cultivating literature and martial arts these days, and at the same time, he pays close attention to the news of the Jurchens, but there is no one else available under him, the crown prince, except for Li Gang, Yue Fei and others, and the surrounding Zhejia army does not obey his orders, so he can't get much useful news at all!

According to the results of his discussions with Li Gang, Yue Fei and others, they could only judge whether the Jurchens had arrived based on the behavior of the soldiers of the Zhejia Army!

The spies who are begging for money have just returned from the Shaanzhou area, and the news has not yet spread, so Tongguan City is still very calm, and Zhao Chen and the others are still calmly doing their own things!

"His Royal Highness the Prince, I can ask to send someone to report it, let us pack up and follow them out of Tongguan!" Zhao Chen was studying with Li Gang when Yue Fei suddenly barged in and said.

"Leaving Tongguan?" Zhao Chen was stunned.

They originally wanted to leave Tongguan, but they didn't expect to ask them to leave Tongguan as well.

"What happened, why did they let us leave Tongguan?" Li Gang said in surprise.

"It is said that the Jurchens have already conquered Shaanzhou! Zhe Keqiu didn't want to guard Tongguan at all, he had already decided to evacuate, and we were naturally asked to evacuate! Yue Fei said.

Zhao Chen was writing, but at this moment he put down the pen in his hand and said with a wry smile: "This is a bargain, is he as timid as a mouse, or is he self-aware?" When he defended the Yellow River before, he 'heard the drum and fled', but now he 'fled' from the wind! ”

Li Gang snorted coldly: "He just wants to preserve his strength!" Hmph, I thought that after taking refuge in him, although his mind was not pure, we would be able to live in peace, but I didn't expect to run for my life again! ”

Zhao Chen said: "Since that's the case, let's clean up and follow him!" He has more than 100,000 troops under his command, and it will be safer to follow him! ”

Li Gang nodded, his expression gloomy, and said, "Your Highness, I'm afraid that after Tongguan is lost, Chang'an and other places will also be conquered by the Jurchens!" At that time, the whole of Shaanxi has fallen, where can His Highness go? ”

"This ......" Zhao Chen sighed softly and said, "We can't help ourselves!" If that time comes, we will have to go to Sichuan! I don't believe that the Jurchens will go all the way to Shuguan and enter Sichuan! ”

He was not in a very good mood, he had just stabilized, and the road to escape was about to start again!

By the time they finished cleaning up, Zhe Keqiu, Zhe Yan and others were already waiting for them!

The snow was falling, and they braved the snow to hurry! In addition to their main generals, most of the soldiers and horses stationed in Tongguan also fled with them, and only more than a thousand people stayed here to guard Tongguan!