Volume 5 Falsehood 24. Friends and foes
"The state is a reclusive aristocratic Boyi and Shuqi, King Wu ordered the Eastern Expeditionary Army to temporarily rest the concubine division, listen to what the two sons of Guzhujun have to say about each other's country, so the place name Yanshi, the general of Yan Guozheng Nan, the governor of Henan, the king of Wu Murong Chui and Dazai Sima Yuexi led the five thousand foot cavalry at this time is garrisoning the north of the Yanshi city and the southern foot of Yangshan. On this day, after the 5,000 Yan army had made a full meal, they were about to march out of the camp and enter Luoyang City, which was fifty miles away, but Murong Chui suddenly received an urgent report from Sun Gai, a partial general of the former army, saying that he had captured more than 300 people from Chen Caozhi, the envoy of Jin, and Xi Bao, the envoy of Qin, but Chen Caozhi said that there were gifts and things sent by King Wu's old friend thirty years ago. To face the king of Wu
When he was about to attack Luoyang, he accidentally captured the envoys of Qin and Jin, which was a major and unusual matter!
Murong ordered the army to suspend its westward advance, and the Yan division was on standby, and he summoned the sergeant who reported the news into the account for questioning. First of all, who was the old friend 30 years ago? The army couldn't answer, only said that the Jin envoy Chen Caozhi wanted to meet His Royal Highness King Wu.
Murong lowered his eyes and sneered, and said in his heart: "Thirty years ago, I was a six- or seven-year-old boy, where would there be any old friends who asked Chen Caozhi to come and give me gifts!" This Chen Caozhi was panicked and babbling nonsense after being captured, and suddenly asked in a deep voice: "How can you see that it is Chen Caozhi?" ”
The sergeant said: "That Jin envoy holds an eight-foot festival, as well as a spear door flag, and that Chen Caozhi is handsome and extraordinary, and it really deserves his reputation." ”
Murong Trai couldn't help but smile when he heard this. Chen Caozhi is the most famous beautiful man after Pan Yue and Wei Jie, and he is famous in the Central Plains and Heshuo. This is not easy to fake.
Murong Chui asked the sergeant where he captured Chen Caozhi and Xi Bao, and when he learned that it was in the area of Donggu, southwest of Yanshi City, Murong Chui frowned: "I have heard that Chen Caozhi is pure filial piety and talented, has both ability and political integrity, and is outstanding. If you can be reused by Huan Wen with a cold man, you won't be a person who can only talk about it, and it won't be so ridiculous! If Jian sent envoys to accompany Chen Caozhi, it would show that the peace talks between Qin and Jin had been completed. But Chen Caozhi neither immediately went south to Yingchuan, nor hid in Luoyang City, knowing that my Dayan Iron Cavalry was stationed in Yanshi, but he threw himself into the net, which is really unbelievable and contrary to the usual people or deceitful, but Chen Caozhi has been captured, what else can he deceive! How many soldiers and horses are there in Luoyang City, and can they still ambush our army? If the Qin people have a large army to cover it, it is impossible for my scouts not to know it."
Rao is Murong Chui is wise, and he can't guess why Chen Caozhi would go to the outside of Yanshi City to throw himself into the net, but capturing the envoys of Qin and Jin is really a greater gain than capturing Luoyang City, Murong Chui thought about it for a while. He immediately ordered his eldest son, Murong Ling, to lead a thousand cavalry to welcome Chen Cao and his party to Yanshi City. solemnly told Murong Ling that as long as the other party did not face each other with swords, he should treat each other with courtesy.
Dazai Sima Yuexi learned that Murong Chui, the king of Wu, ordered the postponement of the march to Luoyang, and hurried to inquire about the reason, and learned that the envoys of Qin and Jin had been captured, he was also surprised and inexplicable, and said with great joy: "His Royal Highness the King of Wu is blessed." This soldier who surrendered without a fight. ”
Murong Chui said: "And don't return to the camp with my life, I want to show off my troops to deter the envoys of Qin and Jin."
Yuexi took the order and left.
Murong Chui waited for Chen Caozhi and Xi Bao to arrive in the military tent, still pondering Chen Caozhi's intention to come here at night, and couldn't help but reach into the chess piece and grab the jade chess pieces
Murong Chui was influenced by his brother Murong Ke, and he was good at Go, and he did not forget to carry chess equipment with him during his military journey. Although he rarely plays against others in the army, when he thinks about planning, he likes to play with several chess pieces in the palm of his hand, just like Jiangzuo celebrities holding iron Ruyi, jade Ruyi or handle when they talk.
After a long time, Murong Chui laughed, threw the chess pieces in his hand into the chess piece, and said in his heart: "Maybe this Chen Caozhi is a mediocre talent, just like a mediocre hand playing chess, there is often no chess reason to follow, why should I think hard about his intentions, haha, and see what gift he gave me from his deceased thirty years ago?" ”
At the beginning of the hour. Sun Gai, the general who had made great contributions, arrived first and reported to Murong Chui that Chen Caozhi, the envoy of Jin, and Xi Bao, the envoy of Qin, were about to be escorted here.
Murong stood up and said, "Come with me to greet you, the two of them are envoys who hold festivals, and they should be treated with courtesy."
Sun Gai said: "Your Highness, there are three hundred envoys from Qin. Neither of them will give up their weapons. ”
Murong Chui smiled and said, "If you haven't handed over your weapons, how can you talk about capture?" ”
Sun Gai blushed and said: "That is the order of His Royal Highness King Wu brought by the prince of the world, to treat him with a dagger, and Chen Caozhi said that he came to give a gift to King Wu." Otherwise, the end would have paid them long ago
Murong Chui said: "It's your great merit, and when the class master returns to the court, I will make the above table your meritorious award." ”
Sun Gai was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked Murong Chui, the king of Wu.
Murong straightened his helmet and said, "What can you do with three hundred steps into my army?"
Stride out of the tent.
"Woohoo"
Hundreds of cows... The sound of horns sounding in unison made the sails of the Oriental Poison Rim soar high in the sky, and the white clouds fluttering in the sky instantly stopped, and then flew away.
Murong Ling, the prince of Wu, accompanied the Jin envoy Chen Caozhi to the north of the Yanshi City, the heavy cavalry of the Yan army in armor and cavalry was shining with the shining luster of metal in the sun, the curtain, the chicken neck, the chest, the horse body armor, the back, the parasitic body, the cavalry in the hand of the two-zhang long horse lance obliquely pointed to the ground, once the tip of the lance was raised, it was the time to charge, this kind of heavy cavalry with heavy armor protection of people and horses was not afraid of arrows, where it passed. Like a chariot, foot soldiers and light horsemen cannot move forward
Ran Sheng rode a big white horse and followed behind Chen Caozhi. Coldly looked at the heavy cavalry of the Xianbei people, his father Ran Yan was captured and killed because he was defeated by Murong Ke's iron-locked chain horse, this Fang Ran Sheng saw this column of eight, the cavalry of the Yan Kingdom in the phalanx, he couldn't help but hate his heart, thinking that one day he would definitely break the Xianbei people's armor and cavalry and destroy the majesty of the Murong clan
The Yan army was very prosperous, Chen Caozhi nodded secretly, at this time, under the southern fierce battle of Murong Ke and Murong Chui brothers, the Yan State broke Goguryeo, destroyed the Yuwen Department, leveled Fuyu, and captured Ran Yan, and there was no defeat for more than 20 years, and it was at its peak. Prosperity must decline, now is the moment of the Xianbei Murong clan's turning and declining, who else should be the one who is in charge?
At this time, Chen Caozhi saw the famous Murong Chui.
Chen Caozhi loves Zhang Chao very much, such a text as "I don't know if I knew Xi Shi when I was alive in the spring and autumn season?" Did you ever look at the guard steps at noon? When Yixi was in the past, was he drunk and clear? The generation of Tianbao, have you ever seen it too true? When the Yuanfeng Dynasty, did you ever meet Dongpo?
Zhang Chao can be said to be a precedent for dreaming of crossing, lack of greed, and want to shuttle back and forth to several dynasties, see all the beauties and hidden writers, and Chen Caozhi can only be in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and some people in later generations have said that the three people they want to see most in the Eastern Jin Dynasty are Xie An, Xie Daoyun and Huan Wen. These three people Chen Caozhi saw the capital, now he is an envoy to the north, he met Wang Meng in Chang'an, and today in this Yanshi City, he saw the great Murong Chui of Shen Yi and great strategy, isn't the wonder of life to be friends or enemies with these people who stand at the pinnacle of history?
Murong Chui is seven feet eight inches tall, only slightly shorter than Ran Sheng, with long hands and arms, and he is a great man, this is the person who will defeat Huan Wen in three years. Later, because of his high merits, he was suspicious, and his life was not guaranteed, so he had to defect to Qin. The Battle of the Paishui Pie. Fu Jian's army of 800,000 was completely defeated, and the army led by Murong Chui alone did not lose a single soldier. Then he established Houyan, fought all his life, and did not taste defeat
Seeing Chen Caozhi, Murong droop's eyes were shining, although he had never seen Chen Caozhi, but he only dared to confirm it after the first glance, this person was Chen Caozhi. Jiang Zuowei Rank, there will be no second one!
Compared with the Qin envoy Xi Bao's flickering eyes and anxious demeanor in his heart, Chen Caozhi's demeanor was elegant and calm, and he really had the atmosphere of disaster. It simply made Murong Trai have the illusion that this Chen Caozhi was indeed here to envoy Yan Kingdom.
To the military tent to sit down, except for Chen Caozhi, Ran Sheng, Shen Chiqian, Su Li, Xi Bao and his cronies, the rest of the Qin and Jin soldiers were not allowed to enter. Behind the big tent, there was a faint figure of an axe-wielding armourer, solemn and motionless, like a statue, but as long as Murong gave an order, these sculptures would be fresh and bloody in an instant, tearing through the curtain and swarming out, cutting these Qin and Jin envoys into flesh
Xi Bao was ordered to be an envoy, and his courage was not weak, but at this time, he was also sweating through his clothes, and it was a hot day in June, and it was sweating like rain. The frightened state was seen in the color, but Chen Caozhi took out the folding fan painted with "Ji Kang Xing Santu" from his sleeve, shook it gently, and said: "Jiangzuo is very hot on dog days, I didn't think that Henan is the same, and His Royal Highness King Wu has a hard stomach. ”
Chen Caozhi is now a bit of Wang Huizhi's frenzy, Murong Chui sneered in his heart, and asked: "Chen envoy sent an envoy to the Qin State, why did he go to the state?" ”
Chen Caozhi: "I am entrusted by others." I made a special trip to see King Wu.
Murong asked "Who entrusted me?"
Chen Caozhi said: "Chen Jun Xie Anshi, isn't it a friend of King Wu thirty years ago?" ”
Murong lowered his eyebrows and trembled, and suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he heard the name of Jiangdong Xie An's prodigy, and asked someone to send him a pair of white wolves unique to Liaoning that he had hunted to sleep. I can't remember what kind of mood it was at the time, maybe I was not convinced by Xie An's prodigy. After that, Rong Ma Zhude had long forgotten the old things of his childhood. Unexpectedly, after 30 years, Xie An still remembered that incident and asked someone to return the gift
Murong Trai recalled his childhood past, and couldn't help but smile, but his face suddenly sank, and he asked, "Is it true that Envoy Chen came to repay the gift of this king for Xie Anshi?" At the same time, the curtain was raised, and the murderous aura behind the scenes was revealed
Xi Bao on the side suddenly lifted his heart. At this moment, as long as Chen Caozhi makes a mistake, it will immediately lead to death. (To be continued)