Chapter 286: Jinling
Mu Bin kept a hard night outside the Hou Mansion, and he didn't see Zhang Ru until the next day when Zhang Ru left with the team, and finally, the new commander of the Jinyi Guard, left the Dingbian Hou Mansion with a gloomy expression.
It is a long way from the capital Shuntianfu to Nanjing Yingtianfu, fortunately Zhang Ru and his entourage are riding fast horses and galloping all the way, although it is hard, it takes not a lot of time.
When I arrived in Nanjing, it happened to be the most beautiful May in the south of the Yangtze River, and the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River was as warm as jade, and the description in the poem could not be false at all.
The weather is warmer, the land is recovering, and the bare north of the bleak is gone, let alone the warm and jade-like south.
The green trees planted on both sides of the official road swayed in the breeze, and they were already close to the city of Nanjing, so the team slowed down, and there were more pedestrians on the official road, and it was not convenient to gallop the horses.
This time, he only brought more than 150 people with him to Nanjing, and almost all the 1,000 households in the 14 health centers under the jurisdiction of the Fusi in Beizhen were transferred, so that Mu Bin could not only leave room to play, but also let his own people come out.
However, Zhang Ru can be regarded as keeping a hand, among the first batch of brocade guards he personally brought out in the East Sifang, the official positions are in 100 households and below, and he has not moved any of them. Regardless of whether Mu Bin really had other intentions or not, if it was really time to turn his face, he would at least be able to ensure that Jinyiwei had six horses waiting for dispatch.
Originally, there was nothing to do, the common people walked the common people, and nearly 200 people in their group slowly followed behind on horseback, but when they were only about a mile away from Jinling City, a horse team suddenly appeared in Jinling City, which could be seen from a distance.
The team consisted of about thirty people, and the riders on horseback were all athletic, and the horses were so fast that they rushed to the vicinity of the crowd in just a few breaths.
"Get out of the way!" The rider on horseback waved the long whip in his hand and whipped at the people who blocked the official road.
The younger people quickly jumped away from both sides of the official road, but the old and infirm people could not dodge, and an old man and two women holding children were severely whipped.
In order to protect the child in their arms, two women who looked like peasant women bowed down, hid their arms deep in their arms, and carried a whip with their flesh and blood.
It was already Mayday, the weather in Jiangnan was already warmer than in the north, and the clothes on his body were relatively thin, and when he went down, the barbed whip directly took away a piece of flesh and blood from several people.
But the man on horseback turned a blind eye, and saw that there were still people in front of the way, and waved the long whip again.
When Zhang Ru, who took the lead, saw the subconscious movements of the two very ordinary women, he seemed to see the scene of his mother protecting himself and Zhu Youzhu in Anle Hall.
In a hurry, he didn't care what the identities of these people were, grabbed the horsewhip and threw it out directly.
The whip was shot at the whip-wielding man like an arrow from a string, and the man was so frightened that he lost the whip in his haste, and his body was short, and he fell on the horse's back, dodging the sharp blow.
When he raised his head, Zhang Ru had already stepped forward on horseback, his eyes rolling coldly over him.
The man on horseback was about thirty years old, and he couldn't hide his muscles in a short suit, with a blue-purple birthmark on the left side of his face, and a pair of triangular eyes looking at Zhang Ru.
"Who doesn't want to die, dare to meddle with your grandfather and my affairs." Obviously, he had already seen that there was a horse team of about 200 people behind Zhang Ru, and the man with triangular eyes still scolded without knowing what to do.
"Who are you, don't you know that this is a pipe? What should I do if I hurt someone! Zhang Ru shouted.
The triangular-eyed man looked disdainfully and said, "These untouchables, if they die, they die, what's the big deal." Hurry up and get out of the way, Uncle still has something to do, and I don't have time to entangle with you. ”
Zhang Ru snorted coldly: "What if I don't get out of the way?" ”
The triangular-eyed man's eyes flashed, and he suddenly made a move, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and the waist knife was unsheathed, and he didn't care about cutting Zhang Ru's head.
I thought that the other party was just domineering, but I didn't expect it to be rampant to this point, Zhang Ru snorted coldly, lay back with his body, and dodged a knife as fast as lightning. Then at the moment of getting up, he pulled out the embroidered spring knife at his waist and slashed at the opponent's buttocks with a backhand.
The painful war horse neighed and ran frantically forward.
In front of him were hundreds of brocade guards, the man's face changed greatly, his eyes wandered, and he raised his hand with a knife, and the sharp blade directly cut off the horse's head.
The horse's blood spurted out and sprinkled on the ground, staining a small patch of land red. The war horse fell to its knees on all fours and fell down.
The triangular-eyed man turned over with a harrier, turned around and rushed towards Zhang Ru.
Zhang Ru didn't step forward immediately, but just gently patted the neck of the war horse that had already had a tacit understanding with him when the man was about to arrive. The war horse raised its hooves and directly kicked the triangular man out.
The man rolled on the ground a few times, clutched his chest and spat out a mouthful of blood, picked up the waist knife that had been taken out of his hand, and rushed forward again.
Zhang Ru still appreciates the other party's lifeless style of play, but it's a pity that the triangular-eyed man cares about people's lives first, and his words are not inferior, and Zhang Ru no longer has the slightest good impression of him.
This time, Zhang Ru no longer kept his hand, jumped off the back of the war horse, and the embroidered spring knife in his hand slashed at the head of the triangular man from top to bottom. The speed of his shot was very fast, and the man was shocked when he saw this, and at this time he could only barely raise his hand to block with his waist knife.
It's a pity that he underestimated the strength of Zhang Ru's hand.
The blades were staggered, and the man only felt a numbness in the tiger's mouth, and then, the heart-rending pain spread along the arm bones of the forearm to the shoulder. The waist knife landed with a cut, and a trace of blood flowed directly from the tiger's mouth.
In a confrontation, one of the man's right arms was abolished by Zhang Ru.
Zhang Ru returned the knife into the sheath without looking at it, and then looked at the man coldly: "Now, can you tell me about it?" ”
The man gritted his teeth, and there was a faint bloodshot between his teeth, and he still didn't mean to let go. A pair of eyes stared at Zhang Ru tightly, and said in a cruel voice: "Boy, no matter how big your background is, you dare to provoke grandpa and me in Jinling City, you will regret it." ”
Zhang Ru said coldly: "I am looking forward to you making me regret it, but now, I want you to tell me who you are and what kind of important thing you are, so that you can disregard the lives of the people." ”
Behind him, the twenty or thirty horsemen carried by the man had a tendency to be restless, but after the man made a very strange gesture, those people did not attack.
This small action did not hide Zhang Ru's eyes, and he couldn't help but wonder in his heart: This kid doesn't look as reckless as he seems, and he dares to use twenty or thirty horsemen to confront hundreds of horsemen, where does he get the confidence?
Just thinking about it, the triangular-eyed man spoke: "Boy, your grandfather is the commander of the Jinwu avant-garde guard, and he has important military affairs to deal with when he goes out this time." blocked Lao Tzu's way, and dared to injure Lao Tzu, delaying the major events of the court, Lao Tzu saw that you have a few heads that are enough to cut off. ”
Zhang Ru said contemptuously: "I can't see that a person who looks like a second-rate son is still an official of the imperial court." Are you a fool when I can't do it? If it's important military business, will you travel plainclothes? If it is an important military matter, do you need to go in person as the guard commander of Nanjing Jinwu's avant-garde? ”
There are many guards in Nanjing, forty-eight in Beiping, and forty-nine in Nanjing, as the former national capital. A guard commander is an officer who controls 5,000 people, and in general military affairs, there is no need for the guard commander to come forward in person. Even if it is really an urgent military matter as this man said, as the commander of Jin Wuwei who guards Nanjing, it is impossible to travel in plain clothes.
The triangular-eyed man's face changed several times, and he was secretly glad that he didn't say his name, in fact, he was not a Wei commander at all, just a thousand generals. Moreover, the purpose of this trip is not to urgently military affairs, but to deal with some private matters.
Unexpectedly, the other party was still a knowledgeable person, so he had to close his mouth and not speak.
I began to think about what the hell is the origin of these people, after all, he has been rampant in Jinling for so long, and he has really never seen Zhang Ru.
Looking at the other party's dress, he should be a rich son, but the kung fu under his hands is extremely hard, and it is impossible for an ordinary rich boy to have this ability. And the other party's behavior is very aggressive, which makes him dare not underestimate it even more.
The triangular-eyed man was still thinking about it, Zhang Ru had already waved his hand to signal the two hundred cavalry behind him to surround the dozens of people, and the surrounding people were afraid to avoid it, so they all ran down the official road and hid on the side of the wasteland.
The men who were surrounded looked a little flustered, after all, their own adults had been taken down by the other party, and they couldn't decide whether to resist or not.
Everyone's eyes were on the triangular-eyed man, and before the triangular-eyed man could speak, those who seemed to be just guards took out their crossbows from the hanging bags under the saddle.
In the face of so many bright crossbow arrows, the soldiers who originally wanted to do the trapped beast fight no longer had the heart to resist, this is a thing that costs human life, and no one will make such a joke with their own lives.
Under the leadership of Fan Tong, Jinyiwei put down the weapons of those people, and then let those soldiers squat on the ground one by one and wait for Zhang Ru to fall.
"Since you're here, you might as well go to the barracks of this commander!" Zhang Ru said coldly.
Almost all of the barracks of the 49 guards of Jinling were outside the city of Nanjing, and only the barracks of the Jinwu Qianwei and Jinwu Zuowei were inside the outer city.
The group went straight to the Jinwu avant-garde station, and after arriving at the station, everyone found that this so-called military camp had turned out to be a pig farm.
There were pigs in the barracks that were supposed to be lived, and the school grounds, which were supposed to be used for training, were full of running chickens and ducks.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ru didn't get angry but laughed: "Okay, what a Jinwu avant-garde, my Daming actually relied on these beasts to kill the enemy." All right! Jin Wu avant-garde mighty, magnificent! ”
The arrogance of the triangular man was completely suppressed, and he lowered his head in shame.