Chapter 43: To the West Again
Because it was snowing, the sky was very gray, and the road was very smooth, so they marched very slowly!
Zhao Chen is in the army, and the three brothers Yue Fei are by his side, so he can be by his side at this moment!
Everyone rode on their horses and walked slowly!
Zhao Chen's hair had turned white, and he said, "General Zhe, you are the Xuanfu envoy of Shaanxi, responsible for defending the whole of Shaanxi!" This Tongguan is the gateway to Shaanxi, it is very important, now that you have given up here, can you be worthy of your father's trust in you? ”
Zhi Keqiu was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to ask this question, and said immediately: "Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't need to worry, I have already sent someone to inform General Yao Guyao that he will bring people to Tongguan to defend Tongguan!" ”
Zhao Chen was stunned, and Yue Fei and the others next to him were also stunned, they didn't expect that there would be such a hand! But after thinking about it, they all understood the plan to ask for it, and they wanted to rely on Yao Gu's Yao family army to resist the Jurchens!
"Aren't the Jurchens far from Tongguan?" Zhao Chen said.
"Your Highness is wise, the Jurchens are indeed not very far from here! They have come to Shaanzhou! For Zhao Chen's mind to react so quickly, he was slightly taken aback!
It's just that soon, Zhao Chen's face showed a frightened expression, he used a horse whip to whip the war horse fiercely, making the war horse speed forward, and his mouth was still shouting loudly: "Since the Jurchens have arrived in Shaanzhou, not far from here, what are you still doing slowly?" ”
He was shouting, but his body was trembling, as if he was terrified!
Seeing Zhao Chen's appearance, a smile appeared on his face! Such a prince is the prince he "likes", and only in this way will the timid and cowardly prince have no threat!
"Your Highness, don't be afraid, with more than 100,000 troops from my family, you can always protect the safety of Your Highness!" Zhe Keqiu chased after him, and said.
"Okay, well, this palace only needs to rely on the Fold Family Army now!" Zhao Chen's face turned pale and he gasped.
"The Zhejia army is a strong army in the northwest, not to mention that the Jurchens have not yet come, even if they come, we can stop them!" Folds can be guaranteed.
"Hey! When the Jurchens had just gone south, I suggested that my father move the capital, but my father didn't listen! If my father had followed my advice at that time, how could he have been captured by the Jurchens? Zhao Chen sighed mournfully.
"When the Jurchens had just gone south...... At that time, did the Jurchens already conquer the three northern towns? "Fold, ask.
"Of course it hasn't been beaten yet! But I know we're not their match! Zhao Chen shook his head and said.
"It's still His Highness wise, and he can guess that the Jurchens are strong at that time, and they will eventually capture Kaifeng!" Fold can ask for a "compliment" on the side.
He was flattering on the surface, but in fact, he despised Zhao Chen, the crown prince, to the extreme! The Jurchens have just gone south, and the prince is about to move the capital, how cowardly should this prince be?
Thinking of this, he really wanted to laugh! Zhao Chen next to him saw his smug face, and a mocking smile faintly appeared on the corner of his mouth!
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The Northern Song Dynasty lacked horses, and so did the Zhejia army, except for a small number of cavalry, most of the Zhejia army were infantry! Their training is slack on weekdays, and at this moment, the marching speed of these infantry is also extremely slow!
In a whole afternoon, they only walked dozens of miles!
At this moment they rushed to a small town, where they rested that night, and in the middle of the night suddenly there was a noise outside!
Zhao Chen was awakened in his sleep, he hurriedly put on his clothes and walked out, and Yue Fei and others outside had already greeted him.
"What happened?" Zhao Chen said.
"It seems that other soldiers of the Western Army have arrived, it seems to be the Yao family's army!" Yue Fei said.
"Oh! Yao Jiajun, then Yao Gu is also a general of the Western Army, I don't know if he is among them? Zhao Chen said.
"We don't know about this!" Yue Fei said.
"I'm going to go out and have a look!" Zhao Chen said.
Zhao Chen wanted to go out to take a look, and Yue Fei and the others naturally followed!
It's just that they just came to the door when they found that there were many soldiers of the Zhejia Army guarding here, and these soldiers actually blocked them and didn't let them pass!
"I am the crown prince, how dare you stop me?" Zhao Chen said coldly.
"Your Highness, this is General Zhe's order, don't embarrass us!" The leading lieutenant was still Kang An, he smiled bitterly.
"Hmph, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the prince of the country, and his status is still above your generals! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to go out, even General Zhi can't stop it, how dare you stop it? Zhang Xian said coldly.
"I'm sorry, I can't let you go without General Zhe's order!" Kang An Road.
"What if we have to go?" Zhang Xiandao.
"Please don't push us!" Kang An Road.
The soldiers of the Zhejia army had already picked up the weapons in their hands and aimed them in this direction, seeing that the conflict was about to happen, Zhao Chen finally spoke, and said: "Forget it, since General Zhe won't let us go out, then we won't go out!" I believe he is also for our good, let's go back! ”
He turned around and left, Zhang Xian looked at Kang An and the others angrily, and finally left!
After returning to the house, Zhang Xian was still angry and said: "You can plead guilty and deserve death, we are nominally free, but in fact we are still under his house arrest!" ”
Zhao Chen smiled faintly and said, "He wants to completely control us and prevent us from going to see Yao Gu!" He's afraid that Yao Gu will take us away, right? ”
Actually, that's exactly what you think! Now he wants to firmly grasp Zhao Chen, and he must not let Zhao Chen fall into the hands of the rest! Otherwise, his plan of "coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes" would not be able to be implemented!
"Your Highness, we are in danger of staying here as if we were in a wolf's den! Why don't I escort you out and see Yao Gu, and then His Highness will be truly free!" Yue Fei said.
"This ......" Zhao Chen pondered, and after a long time, said, "Forget it!" In troubled times, no one knows what will happen! If you can't ask for impure thoughts, is Yao Gu pure in your heart? Moreover, Yao Gu obviously had no brains, so he begged to give Tongguan to him, this was to use him to resist the Jin soldiers, and he was so tricked! If I follow him, even if he is loyal to me, I am afraid that he will be killed by the Jin soldiers! Besides, if I were in his army, would I give up? Fold the family of 150,000 troops, and when the time comes, I will be 'robbed' by him again, what does this mean? ”
Yue Fei nodded and said, "That being the case, let's stay here!" Let's still follow the fold! ”
In fact, although Yao Jiajun arrived, Yao Gu himself did not come here at all! He begged to give Tongguan and Chang'an to Yao Gu, Yao Gu had already gone to Chang'an, and he just sent more than 10,000 soldiers to accept Tongguan!
In the early morning of the second day, Zhao Chen followed Zhe Keqiu and others to the west again, and Zhe Keqiu was still by Zhao Chen's side!
"Are we going to Chang'an?" Zhao Chen looked into the distance and said.
"Your Highness, the Jurchens are menacing, and they may not be safe when they arrive in Chang'an, let's keep going west!" Fold and seek the way.
"All the way west?" Zhao Chen was stunned there!
To tell the truth, he really didn't know where the Zhejia army was going, he thought that the Zhejia army would stop when it arrived in Chang'an, but who knew that it would have to go west! He doesn't know about the fact that he has already ceded Chang'an to Yao Gu now!
"Yes, let's go to Fengxiang Mansion, or let's go to Hanzhong, and when we get there, we'll stop!" Fold and seek the way.
On the fifteenth of February, they passed through Chang'an, and instead of entering the city of Chang'an, they passed through the south side of Chang'an! It wasn't until they had been gone for a long time that Yao Gu got the news! Yao Gu originally wanted to meet His Royal Highness the Prince, but now that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had gone west, he gave up.
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And on this day, the vanguard army of the Jurchens had crossed the Yellow River and came to the city of Tongguan!
The leader is a young general, he looks only about 20 years old, but he looks unusually strong! Although it was a snowy day, he was unusually thinly dressed, and he had a thick arm exposed, and it could be seen that his skin was dark, his muscles were bulging, and his body seemed to be full of explosive power!
His face is strange and his appearance is different! If it is a Jurchen veteran who has been fighting for many years, he can recognize that his appearance is somewhat similar to that of the former Jurchen male lord Wanyan Aguta!
He is none other than the fourth son of Wanyan Aguta, the world-famous Wanyan Zongbi in later generations, or it can be called Wanyan Wushu and Golden Wushu!
Now he is still young, his time for conquest is limited, and his military exploits are also limited, so his current official position is only that of Marshal Zuo Dujian, and at the same time he serves as a pioneer!
At this moment, he looked at Tongguan City in front of him, and his eyes were full of excitement!