PS: The one who cheats on the father destroys the father's capital

Volume II, Chapter 45

Fu Hongzhi drew the saber several times on the horse, and found that it was not frozen in the sheath. looked up and saw Xu Zhihao staring at him, so he smiled at him:

"Don't patronize and look stupid, as long as you have time, you can smoke and play, so as not to be unable to pull it out in an emergency!"

Xu Zhihao said happily I don't need it, my brother doesn't need a sheath, and he is not afraid of freezing. As he spoke, he patted the gavel hanging from his waist. Fu Hongzhi looked at it and felt that this iron pimple weighed at least five or six swords. He himself is a strong man, but if he wants to wave Xu Zhihao's "brother", I am afraid that he will not be able to fight a few rounds.

He likes subordinates like Xu Zhihao very much.

When the general likes this, there are no fancy subordinates, only a handful of strength.

In the Battle of Chishui, this young man took the banner of the Xia Army's Leopard Battalion and brutally abused the morale of the Huns, and Fu Hongzhi was determined to cultivate him well. It's just that the situation is ruthless, and he doesn't have a chance to use him ruthlessly, promote him ruthlessly, and polish him fiercely according to his own appearance. This time the hussars went south with the army, Xu Zhihao originally intended to follow Guo Xu to stay in Chang'an, but Fu Hongzhi insisted on taking him away, because without such a good soldier, the soul of the hussars would be crippled.

At this time, when he looked up and saw his own soldiers galloping, he knew that he had not brought any good news, and his mood suddenly became very bad.

After Liu Yizhen left Chang'an, Mao Xiuzhi has always been close to him, and Fu Hongzhi and Kuai En broke off. According to Liu Yu's instructions, there are two things to get rid of the danger, one is to travel lightly, and the other is to advance quickly. But neither of these things was achieved at all. To be precise, it's because you can't pack lightly. So it's hard to rush forward. To be more precise, Liu Yizhen is simply moving a Chang'an city to squirm.

The guards and outposts are fairly complete armor blocks. The Chinese troops around Liu Yizhen could not even maintain a complete formation, and they were torn to pieces by vehicles loaded with jars and jars. The car was loaded with almost all the valuable things and beautiful women of Chang'an, and the craftsmen walked on the side of the car. In addition to their weapons, the soldiers also carried a bulging baggage. The vanguard and the rearguard are like two peasants, carrying together a heavy barrel whose contents are worth a fortune in peacetime, but are only a burden to the three armies in wartime.

Liu Yizhen was unwilling to ride a horse for a long distance, and he was disgusted that the carriage was bumpy. In order to prevent his precious bones from falling apart, his car could only move slowly in all directions. After walking for a few miles, you have to stop and rest. He couldn't stand the way the soldiers ate dry food on horseback in order to hurry, and he still couldn't get tired of eating and eating on the way to escape in the wilderness, and he had to make a fire to make food. The cooks brought from Chang'an carried a full set of household belongings, and there were at least seven or eight carts pulling all kinds of ingredients. After sunset, he would go to bed, and the pretty girls would get into his warm carriage. The soldiers huddled in the cold wind outside the car could hear the laughter and moaning in the car. After such a toss, Liu Yizhen would wake up very late the next day, and no one dared to wake him up before he opened his eyes; Before he washes up and eats as usual. No one dared to move the carriage.

In this way, dragging a bloated body and putting a graceful shelf. With staggering steps, it has been two full days since the army left Chang'an. Only barely sixty miles away!

It was a little better during the day. At night, the cold wind cuts through the heat like a knife. Between heaven and earth is a huge ice cellar. The soldiers fought over the fire, and the officers had to draw their swords and force them to take turns cooking the fire. When baked for a while, the front was warm and the back was cold, as if it was across the two worlds of yin and yang. As soon as you leave the fire, you will be completely frozen. The soldiers had chilblains on their hands and feet, and their fingers were so swollen that they couldn't pull the bowstrings. The girls brought out of Chang'an City had special care and were arranged in the car, at least there was no worry of freezing to death, but those craftsmen were not so lucky, they left in a hurry, and they did not bring enough warm clothes, and now they are begging the soldiers to give them some clothes. When you encounter a soft-hearted soldier, you can also pull out some fabric from your baggage and hand it over; When you encounter a hard-hearted person, you can only get a white eye. Whether it is a soldier or a civilian, as long as the body is weaker, if you sleep at night, you may not be able to wake up in the morning. At the beginning, in order not to leave traces, they buried it hastily, but later they simply threw the corpses on the side of the road, and the attrition caused by this has more than 300 people. The horses suffered the same thing, there were no barns, there were not enough mattresses, and after two all-nights, more than two hundred horses had fallen ill, and there was no other way but to kill the roast meat and eat it.

Fu Hongzhi had already arrived from behind three times, and boarded the car to ask Liu Yizhen to speed up. For the first time, Liu Yizhen nodded and did not speak. Fu Hongzhi understood this to mean that the words worked, but when he went back and ordered the army to speed up, he found that he could not move fast at all, because the Chinese army brigade showed no signs of speeding up. The second time, Liu Yizhen smiled and said that the general doesn't have to worry, if there were really Great Xia chasing soldiers, he would have killed them a long time ago. I guess they either didn't know we were leaving, or they were dragged by General Zhu Lingshi, since they didn't come, why should we be in a hurry? Fu Hongzhi said that if he didn't find it at the moment, it didn't mean that he couldn't find it at the next moment, according to this marching speed, as soon as the Hun cavalry was dispatched, they could catch up in a blink of an eye. As for General Zhu Lingshi, we also have to share some of the burden for him, and we can't let him take the lives of soldiers to trip the hooves of the Xiongnu horses. After the two finished speaking, Fu Hongzhi returned to the rear guard and prepared to accelerate again, only to find that the rhythm of the march had not changed at all. By the third time, the trouble was so much that they almost drew their swords.

Before Fu Hongzhi boarded Liu Yizhen's carriage, he almost collided with one of the latter's personal soldiers. The soldiers were holding a silver plate with a steaming roast chicken, and on the side of the road, several craftsmen from Chang'an were smashing open the bones thrown by Liu Yizhen with stones, and loudly sucking out the bone marrow inside. Fu Hongyi raised his horsewhip, knocked the plate to the ground, and boarded the car with an angry curse:

"Please give the order quickly, push these useless cars aside, get out of the way, and the whole army will speed up!"

Liu Yizhen saw through the car window that Fu Hongzhi had destroyed his roast chicken, and also heard Fu Hongzhi's scolding, which was about to have a seizure, and suddenly realized that he didn't dare to say that it was completely peaceful now, and he had to rely on these soldiers, so he suppressed his temperament and reached out to brush the seat next to him:

"General Fu is not so angry, sit down and drink a glass of warm wine first!"

Fu Hongzhi also suppressed himself. But he refused to partake of the wine:

"Lord Thorn Shi, the night is long and dreams are many. We've been out for more than a day, and it's impossible not to leak the news. The Huns will arrive at any moment. One more moment of delay, one more danger! ”

Liu Yizhen smiled:

"General Fu and General Kuai are both veterans of Beifu, you broke the Huns last year, which made them frightened, even if you catch up this time, can't you break them again?"

Fu Hong was stunned, I don't know if Liu Yi is really doing anything more or is intended to be sarcastic:

"Lord Thorn Shi, this time and that time. In the battle of the pond and water, we are prepared in advance. On favorable terrain, use infantry elite cavalry to ambush the Xia army. And this time, we went south alone, outnumbered, and it was impossible to break the enemy in the field, so Song Gong's meaning was also very clear, that is, to jump out of the pass with all his strength, and wait until we reached a safe place, so we could calmly and slowly advance! ”

Liu Yizhen said, then you tell me how fast we should be.

Fu Hongzhi said to wrap some dry food and clothes. repatriate the women and craftsmen brought out of Chang'an on the spot; All the belongings on the cart were abandoned; ordered the three armies to throw away a piece of miscellaneous goods in addition to the dry food and weapons, otherwise they would be executed on the spot; The whole army immediately accelerated and galloped, and Lord Assassin Shi had better abandon the car and change horses.

Liu Yizhen frowned:

"You're saying you want me to throw away all these people and things? No way. No, no, no! We fought for more than a year and died so many people. In the end, Helian Bobo picked up the cheap and took Chang'an in vain. If I threw it all at him again. Didn't the officers and men of the three armies die in vain? ”

Fu Hongzhi's lungs are about to be blown up by this heartless gentleman: the lives of the soldiers of the three armies are with him. It's worth this copper smell! These days, he has been thinking about these things since the Northern Expedition, and he has become more and more aware that the root of the failure lies in Liu Yu, and in the literati staff around him who only have one acre and three points of land in Jiangdong in their eyes and no rivers and mountains in the world. Leaving this little kid to guard Guanzhong lightly, causing waves of bloody infighting, and finally making the Guanzhong Beifu soldiers lose their ground. To this day, for the sake of these ill-gotten gains, the whole army is not hesitated to put the whole army in danger! Thinking of the scene of the soldiers of the three armies being trampled and slaughtered by the Huns, he was furious, slapped the case with his hands, and did not choose to speak:

"To die for these things is to die in vain! Didn't Duke Song teach you that what is really valuable is not you broken copper and iron and Chang'an bitch, but the loyal and brave soldiers of the Beifu soldiers? ”

Liu Yizhen's suppressed anger was released by a sentence of broken copper and iron and a Chang'an bitch. swept the cups and plates on the desk to the ground, and stretched out his hand to point at Fu Hongzhi's nose:

"Fu Hongzhi, how dare you talk to Ben Thorn Shi like this!"

Fu Hongzhi did not flinch, leaned forward:

"There is no strategy for defending the city, there is no way to march in order, I love utensils, and I don't care about soldiers, is there such a history of assassination in the world?"

Liu Yizhen's face turned red:

"Do you want to replace you with such a false mouth? If you really have the courage to look down on me as a thorn, leave me now and flee with the army yourself!

Fu Hongzhi couldn't wait to hit the wall with his head:

"If you tell the truth, even if you want to replace it, I think there is no one in this army who has a bit of a mind and does not want to replace it!"

As soon as these words came out, Liu Yizhen was useless. Fu Hongzhi's previous words showed that he had no heart and liver, and his current words showed that he lacked a mind. In the past year, although he did not ask about military affairs, he also knew how much discussion there was about him in the army, and the most annoying thing for him was the "milky child" who almost all of them dared not say it explicitly but hung on the tip of their hearts.

"You have to put on a veteran stand to teach me a lesson, although I am young, the official seal is engraved in gold and not pinched in clay. I know what you all think, it's nothing more than that I'm a milky kid who has become a high-ranking official by relying on my father's power, and I am pressing on the heads of you generals! What's the matter, you're not convinced? If you don't accept it, you will be reincarnated and find a father who is as amazing as my father! Since you don't have the ability to turn the river upside down, obediently accept your fate. As long as Song Gong is my father one day, you don't want to play a bad temper in front of me! ”

Fu Hongzhi regretted that he was arguing with this hairy child, and he actually said it in a hurry. Liu Yizhen is about to become the prince, no one doubts this, and he has already violated the taboo by arguing with the future prince. But seeing that the sun is about to sink in the west, and the whole army is still trapped on this road that is stuffed with tatters and ready to kill at any time.

"If Song Gong knew that you were doing this, wouldn't he be angry!"

Liu Yizhen gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and suddenly pulled out a sword from his waist, and the tip of the sword pointed directly at Fu Hongzhi's heart:

"Don't think it's without you. My Liu family can't beat the country! I'll kill you one moment, and someone will receive your general number the next moment!"

Fu Hongzhi was stunned. Not because of fear, but because of extreme anger. He has been in the army for so many years. He has never been pointed at with a sword by his own people. The old boss Liu Yu has been damaged, scolded, punished, and threatened, but he has never moved one of Fu Hong's fingers, because this is a tiger, not a dog. Today, Liu Yizhen, a doll, insulted him like this!

He had already pulled out his saber in his heart, knocked Liu Yizhen's sword away, picked him up and pressed him to the ground, and slapped his ass fiercely with the back of the sword. But he can. just raised his trembling hand and pointed at Liu Yizhen, then turned around and got out of the canopy, jumped directly from the car and got on the horse, and walked away without looking back.

When I think about this scene now, I still feel liver pain. It's only three things, he has spoken three times, each time it is worse than the first, and now he is reluctant to see Liu Yizhen again. Korn had been there once. But he was scolded back.

Fortunately, the Huns never came.

Waves of scouts came back, and they all said that there was no sign of the Huns for fifty or sixty miles behind them.

It was already the early morning of the third day, and if the Huns didn't kill them today, it meant that they wouldn't come again. Count Liu Yizhen, an evil young fool, and have a stupid blessing. God allowed him to swagger out of the ghost gate.

At this time, looking at Xu Zhihao, he was in cold water, gobbling up three hard Hu cakes, feeling sorry for these brothers. It is also reassuring that they will be able to eat hot meals as long as they live. He chewed on a piece of jerky and looked west. I don't know what the situation in Chang'an City is now.

Dawn is coming.

Even if you walk slowly, you have to start a new day's journey.

He heard a string of horses' hooves. The scouts who should have been sent out are back.

Sure enough, they rushed to their horses.

Fu Hong's heart sank. Because they came back very leisurely these two days.

The scout who took the lead ran to him, threw himself almost straight from the saddle, tore off the cloth from his mouth to protect against the cold, and pointed to the west. He was a veteran and knew that he couldn't shout no matter how urgent it was, that would shake the morale of the army, but his voice was hoarse from nervousness

"General, the Huns, the Huns are coming!"

Fu Hongzhi Huo Di got up from the stone, and the felt mat laid on the stone fell to the ground, and he didn't realize it;

"How many? How far is it from here? ”

The scout said that there were still about fifteen miles, and there were countless mountains and fields, and at least 20,000 people, all cavalry.

Fu Hongzhi's mind spun rapidly, and he gave three orders in an instant:

Xu Zhihao immediately led people and set up a roadblock with vehicles, and the infantry blocked the enemy behind the roadblock.

Arch organized elite troops, ready to bypass between the hills and ravines on both flanks, and under the cover of the terrain, use bows and crossbows to flank the cavalry.

The hussars immediately prepared to travel lightly, and under the command of Mao Xiuzhi, they escorted Liu Yizhen to leave quickly.

He himself immediately went to report to Liu Yizhen. When Liu Yizhen heard that tens of thousands of Hun cavalry had arrived, he was immediately in chaos. The thing that had been clung to his arms suddenly gave up, and he called the hussars to change him to a fast horse, threw down all the vehicles and materials, and hurried east. At this time, it was Fu Hongzhi who advised him to stabilize and not be too flustered and impatient, so as not to shake the army's heart. Where can Liu Yizhen care so much, and urges the way with a sharp voice. Fu Hongyi stomped his feet, turned around and went back to organize the guards to block the attack, and his ears were full of cries of girls and craftsmen along the way. A thought flashed through him, and he quickly called over to a building owner and asked him to drive all the cars to the rear for use.

At this time, Xu Zhihao had already commanded 5,000 infantry to form five phalanxes, strictly blocking the road, preparing to take a break in rounds of battles and kill the enemy repeatedly. In front of the first phalanx, a roadblock was set up with an upside-down carriage, and ordinary horses would certainly not be able to jump over. Fu Hongyi came back to take a look at it, and immediately instructed him:

"The task of the defender is not to fight with the Huns, but to delay time, so you have to save your strength!"

Xu Zhihao said that it is up to me whether I can save my strength or not, it depends on whether the Huns attack fiercely.

Fu Hongzhi said, so you have to make him unable to attack.

Ordered someone to remove all the wine jars from the car and smash them one by one along the road from which the Huns came, so that the large and small rubbles covered the road. In the cold air of the early morning, the smell of wine suddenly wafted through.

And he had gold, silver, and jewels from the abandoned carts, and stuffed a bag into each soldier's hand:

"Brothers, the Huns will surely sweep away the rubble and rush over, and when the time comes, you will throw out all the treasures in your hands, and they will only care about picking them. I can't run, and my energy will be unloaded. ”

Wine and jewelry. In the end, it was actually used like this, and the soldiers grunted and carried out the order. Because of the cold, and because he knew that the situation was critical, his face was all pale.

The tremor of the ground grew more and more violent.

The rumbling hooves of horses grew louder and louder.

A puff of smoke and dust rolled up from the west, and with the help of the wind, it pressed towards the Jin army.

Fu Hongzhi knew very well in his heart that he was unlucky this time, and few of these brothers could leave the battlefield alive, but the more this was the case, the more calm the general had to be, otherwise the fear in his heart alone would be enough to crush these desperate soldiers.

Tell your own soldiers to take the mount. Bring him the broadblade lance that he hadn't used for a long time. This lance was specially made by the blacksmith in the army, and the distance between the two blades was more than double that of an ordinary lance, and those who have seen it say that it is actually a long knife, but it has both the convenience of the knife and the assassination advantage of the lance.

Carrying a lance and a long sword hanging from his waist, he passed through the phalanx, boarded the upside-down carriage of a barricade car, glanced ahead, and turned back to look at the oppressive phalanx. The red tassels on those helmets reminded him of the countless fierce battles of the past years.

"Brothers, I came up from the small soldiers step by step, and if you want to say that I command the battle, to be honest, it is stronger than me to fight. Today. I'm going to play a game for you, and let you see how General Fu gives the Huns a dismount! I'm done, you guys go again. When you talk about it to your children and grandchildren in the future, you can brag about it. said that when I was a soldier, I was a general. I'm just making a move! ”

The soldiers burst into laughter.

"But I need someone to keep an eye on me, and if I can't prevent it, and one of them will run the enemy behind me, and I have to rely on this brother to kill him, which of you wants to come?"

The soldiers did not move.

Fu Hongzhi's long lance is rounded, and within a radius of ten steps, the enemy and me are not safe, and this is also famous.

Fu Hongzhi smiled:

"You cunning rabbit cubs, you are afraid that my lance will cut off your ears, and you will not be able to marry a daughter-in-law in the future! Well, even so, no one should go to the front, see how Lao Tzu is rampant in the world with a lance! ”

The soldiers laughed again.

Fu Hongzhi knew that he had dispelled the fear of the soldiers. A general stands at the forefront, and this is the best gallant wine. But a sadness quickly rose in his heart: as a general, he was left with only the capital to boost morale.

The east is shining, and the sun is about to jump out of the dark abyss.

The Huns' forward turned from trotting to galloping, and the knights, brandishing their scimitars, ready to rush and cramp. As he ran, the horse in front suddenly fell, and those who followed behind did not have time to dodge, and tripped one after another. The horse's hooves stepped on the fragments of the jar, like stepping on ice, and instantly lost its balance.

The soldiers of the Jin army in the front row laughed when they saw the Huns coming proudly, and suddenly the funny appearance of people turning on their backs.

The Hun commander saw the road and immediately called for large branches to try to sweep away the rubble. But the infantry, commanded by Kuang, fired cold arrows from the ridges and ravines on the flank, knocking down the soldiers who were clearing the road, and their screams sounded terrifying. A large number of Xiongnu knights immediately dismounted, armed with bows and arrows, to deal with the Jin infantry on both flanks. The two sides fired at each other for a full hour, and when the sun rose, neither could drive anyone away, and a confrontation ensued, but the Huns took advantage of this opportunity to gradually clear the rubble from the road and clear the way for the cavalry.

Fu Hongzhi turned around and shouted:

"Listen to my command, and if I say let it go, you will release the arrows; When I say stop, you stop. If anyone can't control his hand and shoot Lao Tzu's ass, I'll cut his cock when I turn around! ”

Although life and death are on the verge of death, the soldier still can't help but laugh.

The Huns galloped towards them, and when they came within range of their bows and arrows, they began to fire arrows on their horses. The phalanx soldiers raised their shields to take cover, while Fu Hongzhi sat behind the barricade. The Huns ran to the barricades and had to rein in their horses and circle. At this time, Fu Hongzhi shouted and let go, and the archers of the Jin army immediately fired a volley. Fu Hongzhi heard the screams of the Huns and the sound of falling horses, and shouted to stop. At the moment when the rain of arrows stopped, Fu Hongzhi shouted, raised a long lance and jumped onto the barricade, jumped into the Hun pile, and the moment he landed, he cut the Hun knight in front of him into two pieces, and the human blood, horse blood, human internal organs and horse internal organs were sprayed out. Where his broad-bladed lance leads, the Huns' scimitars cannot be parried. The nimble can only dodge, and those who don't know what to do will inevitably die, the sweep is like a waist cut, the straight stab is pierced front and back, the armor is too brittle, and the shield is too thin. He set out from the barricades, and walked steadily forward fifty paces or so, wielding a bolt of lightning from his heavy lance, reaping his life in a flash of lightning, and cutting all the enemies he could reach from the cripples to pieces. At first, the Huns had the idea of killing, but when they realized that they could not fight against the fierce gods, they whistled and quickly disengaged, and returned to their own team with lingering fears, leaving behind more than 30 corpses and a dozen wounded soldiers. Fu Hongzhi didn't mend the knife, and let the wounded soldier lay sideways on the cold ground, letting out a painful moan.

Fu Hongzhi was covered with the blood of the enemy, slowly returned to the barricade, and put the lance horizontally:

"Lao Tzu took the lead for you, and the next thing is up to you! There are many of you, and you are younger than Lao Tzu, can you fight better than Lao Tzu? ”

The three armies shouted:

"Yes!"

Before the sound fell, a low horn sounded ahead.

Facing the sun, countless flags rose on the western horizon, fluttering in the morning breeze as if to polish the countless armor beneath the banners.

After two days of silence, the Huns finally showed their hideousness.

When Helian Chang and Yao Zhanbao arrived, they happened to encounter the defeat of the striker and retreated. Helian Chang imitated his father's appearance, and without saying a word, he directly killed the two centurions who led the team to defeat. Yao Anbao listened to the description of the defeated soldiers, and already knew that Fu Hongzhi was personally commanding, so he asked for orders to go into battle.

He personally supervised a thousand-strong team to fight for a while, so as to find out the path of the Jin army. He was in the rear, watching the 1,000-man team rush to the obstacles. He had already made arrangements for the archers to keep their arrows and cover the able-bodied soldiers to drag the carts away. These coolie soldiers will definitely die a lot, but otherwise, there will be no way for the cavalry to indulge in the collision, and the Jin infantry will be able to carry it all the time.

But the coolies did not rush forward.

A lot of things flew out from behind the barricades of the Jin army, and the moment they landed, the knights seemed to have been hit by magic, and immediately lost their speed and stopped firing arrows. They got off their horses, and crawled on the ground like dogs, as if they were picking something, and even fought with each other. Yao Annihilation Leopard was about to send his own soldiers over to see what was going on, when a burst of arrows flew out from behind the barricade, and then a group of Jin troops jumped out, and the person who led him was like a god, wielding a long lance, followed by a strong man, holding a lance in one hand and an iron mallet in the other.

There is no suspense for this moment.

Yao picked up a soldier who had escaped and asked him why he had stopped halfway. The soldier stammered and said that the Jin army threw out a lot of treasure.

Yao Anbao immediately ordered that all the surviving officers of this thousand-man squad be incorporated into the dead soldiers, and they would move the barricades in the next battle. Ordered to the second thousand-person team, if the old tricks of the Jin army are repeated this time, those who dare to stop will be cut in half!

Taking advantage of the fact that the Jin army had not yet taken a breath, he immediately sent two thousand-strong teams to smash a heavy hammer in a dense formation.

Fu Hongzhi glanced at the distance and knew that the Huns had completed the tentative attack, and all the tricks on this side had been exhausted, and all that was left was a hard-fought fight.

He looked back at the brethren.

They are the most uphill army in a hundred years.

It's just that no matter how steel-like an army is, it should not be put in such a desperate situation.

And he really has no other way to do it than to accompany them! (To be continued......)