Chapter 495: Zhang Yu's Homecoming
The crisis in Beiping is over again, but what people didn't expect is that it ended hastily because of a plague, but it was this plague that caused Yun Zichen's army to suffer heavy losses, and when he went, it was 300,000 troops, and when he returned to Shandong here, the team had been sharply reduced to 130,000.
Think about it again, when the army was dispatched, it was claimed to be 500,000 troops, but now there are only 130,000, and Zhu Di's army was 100,000 at the beginning, but now there are still 50,000.
But Yun Zichen thinks that his command is not wrong, but he does not occupy the right time and place, and when he crosses the river, if it is not for the beginning of spring, the ice on the river is chiseled, and his heavy cavalry returns, Zhang Fu's army will not be so arrogant, and maybe there is no need for Dongchang's plan at all, and Zhu Di's army can be completely annihilated.
When he was in Dongchang, he could wipe out Zhu Di's army without spending a single soldier, and that hope was so close. But just because the emperor sent three princes, his overall plan fell through, allowing Zhu Di to escape with 10,000 remnants.
Ben came to this time and he hadn't lost yet, he still had 300,000 troops, but Li Jinglong was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he let Zhu Di go to the nearest Texas, missing the best opportunity.
In the final battle of Beiping, even with the help of Zhu Di and Lu Xun, he was confident that he would take Beiping, but it was only a matter of time.
But at this time, God didn't help him, and there was a plague, which reduced his army sharply, and was "robbed" by Zhu Di of tens of thousands of people, and at this time he was powerless to return to heaven.
When he returned to Jinan, the whole person collapsed, he was too tired in the past few months, he didn't sleep well every night, and now the army has retreated to Shandong, but it has made him relax.
Well, there's no one who doesn't fail. Isn't there a saying that success is the mother of failure?
So that night, Yun Zichen slept soundly.
Yun Zichen slept soundly, but Zhang Fu couldn't sleep at all, because he was worried about his father, even if he knew that his father's hope of survival was extremely slim, he still looked forward to it, hoped that a miracle could happen, and hoped that Hu Ye's note to his father would have an effect.
It's just that he didn't know that his father hadn't seen Hu Ye's note at all, and he didn't know what Hu Ye had written on that note. Now you can only look at the stars in the sky.
Zhu Di also slept well that night, because the crisis in Beiping was lifted, he had a chance to breathe, he could take the tens of thousands of imperial troops for his own use, and he could train the Shenji battalion on a large scale, or it wouldn't be long before he could make a comeback.
That night, Hu Ye slept badly because he didn't know if Zhang Yu had seen the things on his note. I don't know if Zhang Yu did what he said, I don't know if the 30,000 army found Zhang Yu, and I can't be sure whether Zhang Yu is alive or dead now. He once swore that the note could save Zhang Yu's life. But now it seems that he is exaggerating.
The defense of Beiping at night was very strict, and even if Yun Zichen's army was defeated, the defense on the city wall did not relax at all. Huge torches illuminated the city gates, and you could see dozens of roads away, if an enemy attacked. They can see it.
That night, a defender of the city in Beiping saw the appearance of a rickety back, and his nerves immediately tensed, naturally thinking that there was an enemy attacking, and hurriedly asked the soldiers on the city wall to prepare, and all the bows and arrows were wound.
"Who's coming?" The general yelled, but the visitor didn't answer, not because he didn't want to answer, but because he couldn't answer, and the leaks were all fluttering.
"Don't answer again! I'm about to release my arrows! When the general saw that no one had answered, he immediately became ruthless and shouted loudly.
The man still did not answer, but did not move forward, but fell beyond the walls with his head planted.
"Hurry! Grab me! The general hurriedly called for someone to arrest him.
Soon, a middle-aged man in ragged clothes and a thin body was brought into the city, unkempt, and the general naturally meant that he was a beggar.
Just as he gave the order to throw the man out, the man suddenly opened his mouth with difficulty, and said in a faint voice, "Take ...... Take me, go to ...... Go and see Your Highness. ”
When he had said that, the man's head was hammered down and never lifted again.
"What! Your Highness? Do you think that Your Highness can be seen by anyone? ”
The general is angry, and a beggar also wants to see His Highness? Then Your Highness must not be busy to death for a day? And now in the middle of the night, His Highness has already slept, how can he get up to see you, a beggar?
"General, what now? What if he really knew His Highness? The soldier who brought the man back was a little anxious, if it was really a beggar, it would be nothing, and if he died, he would die.
But what if you know Your Highness? What's worse is that if His Highness also knows him, it will be troublesome.
The general's face was not good-looking, and after a while, he made a decision, "You send him to the Yan Palace, let the soldiers of the palace confirm it first, and don't disturb His Highness first." ”
"Yes."
It was Zheng Er who came out to pick up people, he is now the general manager of Yanwangfu, managing the affairs of Yanwangfu, and he thinks that he has lived up to Zhu Di's kindness.
When he saw the person who was taken away, he didn't know the expression on his face, anyway, he wasn't sure, just sad and happy.
"Quick, bring him into the room, and I'll call His Highness." Zheng Er's face changed before he made up his mind.
So they brought the man into a room, and Zheng Er came to Zhu Di's bedroom.
If it was normal times, absolutely no one would dare to disturb Zhu Di at this time, because Zhu Di had ordered that no one could disturb him when he was asleep, and he could not disturb the princess.
But today things are special, and Zheng Er also has to take risks.
In the end, Zhu Di was woken up by Zheng Er, and the result was the same as Zheng Er thought, Zhu Di was very angry, and his eyes were full of anger, but when he listened to Zheng Er's words, the anger on his face disappeared, and after appeasing Xu Miaoyin, he didn't even have time to put on clothes, so he directly put on a coat and followed Zheng Er out.
"Are you sure?" Walking out of the room, Zhu Di asked Zheng Er with a solemn face.
"I just don't know for sure, that's why I asked His Highness to confirm it." Zheng Er replied.
"Hurry up, take me there." Zhu Di was in a hurry, if what Zheng Er said was true, he couldn't wait to arrive now.
Soon, Zheng Er took Zhu Di to the outside of the room, the light in the room was very dim, and he could vaguely see a person lying on the bed, his clothes were ragged, and his body still exuded a stench.
But Zhu Di couldn't care so much, he hurriedly came to the bed, looked at the person carefully, brushed away the messy hair on the person's face with his hand, and then the person brought a towel to wipe off the dirt on the person's face, and when the person's face appeared clearly in front of Zhu Di, Zhu Di put his mind at ease, and his eyes were a little moist, but Zheng Er was by his side, and he didn't come out.
"Someone! Call me all the Langzhong in Beiping, and collect all the supplements for me throughout the process! And call Zhang Fu to me. Zhu Di suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and said loudly.
"Your Highness, could it be that he really ......" Zheng Er asked when he saw that Zhu Di was so happy.
"Yes, Shimei is not dead! He's alive! He's alive! Hahahahaha! Zhu Di smiled so unscrupulously, he was happy!
Zheng Er knew that the Shimei in Zhu Di's mouth was Zhang Yu who stayed in Enxian County, but he didn't expect this Zhang Yufu to have a big life and survive.
It turned out that on the mountain outside Enxian County, Zhang Yu thought that he was going to die, and was going to kill himself with a knife after solving a few soldiers who rushed up, but when he did the heart of death, he found that those menacing soldiers listened to it, and then poured down like a tide, as if he did not exist as a person.
At that time he thought he had seen something wrong and hallucinated, but when he rubbed his eyes, he saw that the soldiers had retreated, and there was no enemy to be found in his sight.
At that time, he wanted to cheer, but he couldn't pick it up, and he didn't dare to shout, so he could only put a rare smile on his old face with the vicissitudes of life, and he knew that his old life had been saved.
He didn't know why those enemies retreated, he only knew that he could see his wife and children again, and he could continue to serve Zhu Di.
It's just that he had a wound on his leg at that time, his clothes were ragged, and there were mosquitoes in the mountains. What's more, he often saw a large group of soldiers, disgraced, as if they had lost the battle, and he could see that it was not King Yan's army, so he didn't dare to show his head.
He had to walk back to Beiping from Enxian alone, and the journey was difficult, especially because his legs and feet were inconvenient.
Along the way, he had suffered too much, the wound on his leg was treated by himself with herbs, and when he was hungry, he picked wild fruits in the mountains, for which he did not suffer less, and he could improve his diet when he encountered wild meat, but he did not dare to make a fire, for fear of attracting enemies.
So in the past few months, he walked alone in the mountains, from Enxian to Beiping, and there was no good material for the clothes on his body.
Along the way, they also witnessed the difficulties of the people's lives, the trauma brought to them by the war, and the displacement of many people, many people lost their homes and fled to the mountains, and many of them became refugees who helped him.
So along the way, he felt a lot, this war must end quickly, otherwise for Zhu Di's dream of being the emperor, so many people will be caught in the flames of war, and he will feel that he is a sinner.
So when he returned to Beiping, the first thing he wanted to see was not his wife and children, but Zhu Di, and the previous scene appeared.
So that night, Beiping City was busy, many Langzhong were quarreled in the middle of the night, and then brought to Yanwang's Mansion, they thought that Zhu Di was sick, and asked them to treat it, otherwise they would not be so excited, but it turned out that it was to treat a beggar-like person.
Zhang Fu was also called in the middle of the night, but fortunately, he didn't fall asleep at all, and thought that Zhu Di had a heavy task to arrange.
As a result, when he saw the person lying on the bed, a tough guy as strong as Zhang Fu immediately cried. (To be continued......)