Volume 3 Mending the Crack in the Sky Chapter 208 Feasting on the Hongmen (45)
Zhirou has always been a happy person.
He is an out-and-out side branch in the folded family. The bloodline is already far away, and in his generation, although it is still in the big ranks. In the middle of the winter solstice to worship the ancestors, they will not be summoned to the ancestral hall of the Zhejia family to stand and salute according to their generations.
The Zhe family was not a wealthy family in the first place, and Zhi Zhirou's bloodline was so far away, so naturally the family was not much better. At the age of fourteen, he took the most accustomed path for the children of the folded family, and joined the army to eat a salary.
Although he bears the surname of the folded family, the fourteen-year-old boy has not received any attention after joining the army. On the contrary, because of this surname, he was trained more rigorously.
The people who broke the family, in the army outside the river, have always been the first to kill, and they have also died at the front!
And Zhi Zhirou endured it with a smile like this, and climbed up step by step from an ordinary soldier.
The march was bloody, and the armor and dry rations were crushed by the long march and seemed to break their waists. The bird faded out of his mouth, and he came and secretly went out of the camp to sell wine and eat meat, and came back to be beaten with a military stick. Standing nervously in the queue when he saw the battle, he only felt that he would vomit at any time. The strange feeling of the blade stabbing into the flesh of the enemy during the battle. The ecstasy of finally being promoted from an ordinary soldier to a small ten generals, all the military salaries that have been accumulated for several months will be squandered in the Fugu Washe............
What is the growth history of an ordinary soldier from Hewai to a general, Zhi Zhirou has experienced it all over without pulling it at all.
In this way, he has been in the army outside the river for more than 20 years, and he has the rank of a small envoy and has been sent by a commander. settled a home in Fuzhou, married a stout Hun family that was not bad like him, and gave birth to two debt-collectors who were disgusted. The money is not enough. When drinking, you can only drink some bad alcohol. The Hun family always complained that if one day he led the troops into battle, he would not be able to come back. I didn't leave any belongings for my motherββββ don't expect my mother to guard it for you when the time comes!
It has always been a very difficult place in the Hewai Army, and Zhi Zhirou is still so heartless and optimistic. In addition, whether it is his own immediate hard work, or his ability to lead the army to fight, he is still a little famous, and he is a person from all over the world, and he can be regarded as a familiar acquaintance in the army outside the river. Even if you can ask for it, you know that you have such a distant nephew.
But now, Zhi Zhirou couldn't be happy, and rode his horse and hesitated, with a look that had never been solemn before.
There is no other reason. Because of these thousands of people who are now walking on the road!
These thousands of men and horses are the embers of the 50,000 Yan troops who were rumored to have been abandoned by the head of the family in the valley of the Weishui River!
As a person in the army, how did Zhi Zhirou not know how big the scale of 50,000 military horses was and how big the scene was when they were pulled out?
At that time, the banner covered the sun, the blades were shining, and the armored warriors were like iron walls. Marching, you can pull out a queue of tens of miles. Smell the golden drums all the way, and the rangers shuttle back and forth, rolling up smoke and dust to cover the sun.
The Western Army has always been rich, supporting 50,000 troops to march eastward. When it is not known how much military equipment to carry. Tens of thousands of stone of grain. Tens of thousands of arrows, tens of thousands of replacement ordnance, and even spare armor. Carrying these burdens required tens of thousands of people and countless cars. One transshipment fort after another was set up along the way.
And there were hundreds of craftsmen who repaired cars, weapons, and armor. There are also hundreds of men who take care of the mules and horses. All kinds of people who can be said to be in name but not in name, and people in charge of various functions, etc. Not to mention the praise and painting of the staff officers who accompanied the army, these literati always had to send military men to serve, and they both looked down on and demanded more from military men, and they were always the most hated objects in the army.
Such an army of such a size. The force that has been passed down from Yan Yanlu for decades. Once it will be destroyed in the land east of the river!
Now all that's left is these thousands of remnants!
said that it was the remnants of the soldiers, and the appearance of these thousands of people was really miserable.
Both generals and non-commissioned officers took off their armor. The clothes on his body are already tattered and tattered, and he can't cover his body. Everyone had to have unkempt hair, and the grudge on their faces was almost a finger's thick. And the shoes on the feet, no matter how strong and thick the military boots were, were all worn out, and along the way, the team of thousands of people left a little blood on the way.
Almost everyone was skinny and out of shape, and their cheekbones were high. Many of them were still covered in strips of cloth with black blood stains. It was these emaciated and tired warriors, with spears and sticks, marching silently all the way. Everyone in the team seemed to be going to fall at any moment.
There were six or seven hundred horses in the ranks. These mounts for the rest of their lives also had protruding ribs, messy manes, a lot of horseshoes falling off, and their hooves worn off, walking on the road like thousands of soldiers, leaving only a little blood along the way.
It turned out to be a strong armor soldier, a Danyan army with a shining banner, and a Kansai Han who grew up one by one and dared to fight. It turned out to be the elite soldiers of Yan Yan, covering Guanzhong in the south, resisting Western Xia in the west, and pressing the grassland in the north. Now all that remains are the thousands of geismans who seem to have escaped from hell!
The whole army was cut off like this!
Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the elite soldiers of the six roads in Shaanxi have been cut off all the way at one time, and they have never seen it!
And tens of thousands of living beings along the way, except for the incompetence of Liu Guangshi, the master of his own family. In the end, it was an important reason for the almost total annihilation of the army. It was the rumored Folded Army to abandon them under the leadership of Fold.
In the end, the Yan army was surrounded by the Jurchen Tartars, oppressed by the Jurchen Tartars, killed by the Jurchen Tartars, and overwhelmed by the Jurchen Tartars!
And what made Zhi Zhirou feel that she couldn't raise her head and couldn't speak the most was not just such a tragic scene.
These thousands of remnants of soldiers who are extremely miserable are still an army!
Although there are not many horses left, and the condition of the horses is extremely poor, many mounts can only pull the trailer even if they can still struggle to reach their destination, and they can no longer fight in battle.
But among the defeated soldiers, nearly 100 war horses in slightly better condition were still squeezed out, and the rangers were still pulled out to cover the two wings of the marching direction of the military horses. Immediately, the knight tightened his belly and fed only a little dry food to his mount, although he was crumbling on the horse, and seemed to be about to fall off his horse at any moment, but he still vigilantly monitored all the movements of the horse in front of and behind him.
And the main force that protects the rangers, although they have no armor, the ordnance is also used as a crutch. Look at the form. I can't afford another fight. But thousands of people are still lined up in four columns. Silently but firmly marched on the official road leading to the Baode military city.
There is no sound of **. No noise, no chaos. No decadence!
Everyone raised their heads as best they could, and marched firmly step by step. Once they face the enemy, even if they have no armor soldiers, Zhi Zhirou believes that they will all form a formation, even if they fill it with flesh and blood, they must rush out of a path, and then set off again!
God knows that they are in the net of the Jurchen Tartars. In the pursuit and interception of tens of thousands of iron cavalry, how many bloody battles have been experienced before miraculously rushing to the sky and going all the way to the territory of the Baode Army! Leaving tens of thousands of Jurchen Tartars behind, he still retains the appearance of an army!
Yan Yanjun and Hewai Army are neighbors, and Zhi Zhirou knows what this neighbor of the Western Army looks like. The Vasher in the territory of the Yan Army is not without his rare and absurd traces.
Although the Yan Yan Army is known as one of the six strong brigades of the Western Army, with the contraction of the Shenyong Military Division of the Left Wing of the Western Xia, the Yan Yan Army has been abandoned for nearly 20 years. And this time the Yan army did not participate in the Yan War.
Although the establishment was maintained most intact among the six routes of the Western Army, it was able to pull out an army of 50,000 to cross the river and march eastward for a time. But the march was sloppy, and the march dragged on. Among the generals, they are not accustomed to war. There are many people who are only good at returning to Yi. And the sergeant veteran has become a soldier, and the new soldier does not have much experience in battle.
Overall. In Zhi Zhirou's eyes, the combat power of the Yan Yan army is far below the army outside the Zhejia River. His own commander pulled out, and it was estimated that there would be no big problem in beating the three commanders of the Yan Army.
And in this Eastern Crusade, the Zhejia and the Yan Army joined forces. The children of the Zhe family privately discussed that they were fighting with the Jurchen Tartars in the wild, and the main force did not rely on our children of the Zhe family outside the river? It's just a matter of Yan Yanjun fighting. However, the Jurchen Tartars are forced to the gate outside the river, and our children do not contribute, is there still a reason to let these Kansai Han contribute? The folded family is not willing to accept the affection of that Liu Yanei!
Originally, in Zhi Zhirou's view, there were 6,000 of the most elite Zhijia Hewai disciples as the backbone, and the 50,000 Yan Yan army slowly practiced warfare, and slowly recovered the original Western Army's six-way old foundation. On the flanks are the three states outside the river, and behind them is the endless water transportation of the big river, which is completely worthy of fighting with the Jurchen Tartars. It's just that he didn't send him out to participate in the war to earn some military merits, but the head of the family is a little ignorant about this.
Who could have thought that all of a sudden there was a rumor of the wind. Yan Yanjun ventured deep into the Weishui River Valley and found himself in a desperate situation. And the head of the family actually led thousands of children of the folded family to give up the back road and flee first, and the army was defeated on the south bank of the Lan River, thousands of folded family elites, and less than half of them returned!
The image of the head of the family, who has always been like a god, collapsed in the hearts of many children of the folded family.
The most elite and capable army of the Hewai Zhijia army ran first and then was defeated, and the 50,000 Yan army fell into a heavy encirclement, and the back road was cut off. Is there anything good that can't be done? Only the whole army was wiped out in the valley of the Weishui River, and the bones looked at each other. The old foundation of the Western Army is going to lose all the way again, and I don't know if there is time or opportunity to let the Yan Army recover again!
Fifty thousand Yan Yan army............
When she heard the news, Zhi Zhirou called for turbid wine and got drunk fiercely. The Hun family blamed, and Zhirou just ignored it. Finally, he lay on the couch, although he was deeply drunk, he couldn't sleep.
He couldn't figure out a truth. 50,000 are haunted by the unjust soul left behind by their own family, can the head of the family sleep in peace every night?
But who would have thought that there were thousands of wandering souls who escaped from hell, rushed down the Ten Palaces, stepped on the Nai He Bridge, and overturned Meng Po Soup. From the front of the Wangxiang platform, he killed all the way. appeared in front of the children of the folding family!
Under the unkempt beard, in the deep-set eyes, there was a compelling murderous aura.
In that thin body, on the little blood stains left along the way. It's tenacity that can't be bent even when the sky falls!
With thousands of banners like this, it is enough to kill Yama!
Fifty thousand Yan Yan's children were thrown into a desperate situation, and after countless sacrifices, what was sharpened out was these thousands of elites!
Zhi Yanlun commanded the cavalry to escort them westward, straight to the Bulgarian army. These thousands of remnants of the army refused Zhe Yanlun and Zhi Zhirou's carriage and horses for them, and just begged for some hot soup to drink from the wounded in the team. He ate the last bit of dry food that was already moldy, and then continued on his way silently but firmly.
Straight to the west, straight to the Baode Military City.
It seems that these thousands of remnants of the army just want to ask for an explanation and justice from the people who abandoned them!
Escorting such a remnant army to the west. Let the children of the folded family go all the way. I can only bow my head silently. What do you want to say. Looking up, I finally had to tighten my teeth.
In front of such a remnant army that left blood marks all the way and fierce spirit all the way, but for the children of the broken family, how can there be a word to explain their own family?
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Zhi Zhirou silently escorted the ride, and finally couldn't hold back any longer, and the horse overtook the brigade and went straight forward.
The one who leads the way at the front of the line. It was Ori Thirty-Nine Lang Ori Yanlun. The big iron sword and the armor on his body were already on top of the prepared horse. He only wore a brocade robe, and did not wear a scarf to tie his hair.
In terms of appearance and figure alone, Zhi Yanlun, the Northwest Army, is no less than the handsome son of Bianliang Fengshen. But sitting on horseback, holding his sleeves and waist, he looked like he hadn't eaten enough and couldn't get up, so he couldn't show the demeanor of a jade-faced young general.
Zhi Zhirou rode his horse from the side, walked side by side with Zhi Yanlun, and greeted: "Uncle Thirty-Nine!" β
Zhi Yanlun turned his head and glanced at him weakly, without saying a word.
I ate five or six minutes full in the last meal, and then fought with Lin Leopard's head, and then responded to the remnants of the army. Then escorted them to the Baode Military City for more than ten miles. The little stock in my stomach has been depleted, and it is good to say less at this time. It's a little bit more to keep your vitality alive.
Zhi Zhirou naturally knew what was going on with this thirty-ninth uncle, even if he was full of worries. I couldn't help but persuade: "Uncle Thirty-Nine, why don't you eat some dry food first?" β
Zhi Yanlun finally spoke, and his tone was weak: "There are two meals in the army, and you will do it on time." When you are in battle, do not fill your stomach. If you can't be righteous, how can you be right............ My father taught me, and I can only hold on to hunger. β
In the army, two meals a day. There are strict restrictions on the quantity of supply-otherwise, Sima in the army will not be able to calculate the daily consumption of grain, how much grain and straw must be prepared when he travels with the army, and how much grain and straw must be transported and chased in time when the rear will arrive. Not eating on time, being able to eat at any time has never been what the army should do, and being a soldier is a hard job. And when you have to fight, even if you have more food, you can't eat too much, and if you are too full, you will be easy to be sleepy.
But in order to be a qualified general, he must also fulfill any requirements for non-commissioned soldiers. Therefore, although Zhi Yanlun has been talented since he was a child, he has a lot of food. But once the leader of the troops was outside, he was dizzy with hunger, and in addition to tightening his belt one more circle, Zhi Yanlun could only carry it alive.
Zhi Zhirou shook her head, and she didn't have anything to say to Uncle Thirty-Nine on this. He tugged at the reins and moved closer, and his tone turned out to be as strict as he had ever been: "Uncle Thirty-Nine, how will the head of the family treat them?" β
Zhi Yanlun lowered his eyelids, still silent.
Zhi Zhirou said to herself: "These thousands of people can be seen at a glance, the essence of the rest of the battle. A good man who can rush out of the net of tens of thousands of Jurchen Tartars! Regardless of whether the previous rumors are true or not, now the Jurchen Tartars may approach the three states outside the river at any time to clear their flank threat. At this time, these thousands of Yan Yan military horses will be restored, at least the three states outside the river will have one more help! Liu Guangshi also fled from his mother, and in the army, Yang Keshi and General Yang were there, and General Yang was injured and lying down. At this time, treat this remnant army well, and you should be somewhat sure that this remnant army will be temporarily used by the three states outside the river.................. The head of the house should see this! β
The more she talked about it, the faster Zhi Zhirou spoke, and she couldn't help but get faster and faster.
ββ¦β¦β¦β¦ Even if this remnant army wants to cross the river west and return to Yanyan. We should also replenish the military equipment and regain a little vitality. It's good to get together and disperse! In the final analysis, if the rumors are true, it is because we are sorry that Yan Yanjun is the first! If there is anything else that cannot be justified for this remnant army, I am afraid that the people's hearts will ............."
Zhi Yanlun finally spoke slowly: "............ How is the human heart? β
Zhi Zhirou swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "I'm afraid that the heart of the Zhen family will be completely dispersed!" β
He clenched the reins in his hand tightly, as if he was about to pull the leather reins out of the water, and his eyes flashed: "............ Uncle Thirty-Nine, the head of the family is an understanding person, and he will never let the hearts of our children be scattered like this? β
Zhi Yanlun snorted, and continued to maintain the posture of a little old man who immediately copied his sleeves and bowed his waist, and the words he said just now seemed to consume the vitality almost cleanly. It's hard to get him to say one more word.
Although Zhi Zhirou and this thirty-ninth uncle are far from each other in the status of the Zhi family, they have some friendship by chance. At this time, he simply had no skin and no face, but got closer and closer: "Uncle Thirty-Nine, I am an inconspicuous figure in the family, and I can't touch the heart of the head of the family." In the past, where would you think about so many things that you don't have. But this time, the head of the family appeased the deputy envoy and moved all the characters in Fugu to the Baode Army, but people couldn't help but think about it much! A hundred years of breaking the family, you can't just break it like this! β
Speaking of excitement, Zhi Zhirou simply pulled the reins of Zhi Yanlun's mount. The distance was so close that saliva could be sprayed on Zhi Yanlun's face.
"Uncle Thirty-Nine, tell me how the head of the family will treat these remnants of the army!"
Zhi Yanlun slowly raised his hand and slowly wiped away the saliva stars sprayed on his face. Slowly raising his chin towards the west, he said, "Wait and see, you will know?" β
To the west of the official road, from the direction of the Baode Army, in the setting sun, smoke and dust rose from the sky. There was a large group of men coming east.
Regardless of asking, it can be seen that it is the cronies who were sent to greet the remnants of the Yan Yan army after they were rewarded for it! (To be continued......)