Volume 1: The Dusty North (17)

At this time, Hebule had already gathered dozens of guards who remained in the city and quietly came to the north gate of Shangjing.

In order to reassure these Mongol barbarians, the Jin people deliberately indulged. Not only did they not arrange guards at their residences, but they did not even send a few secret sentinels. Hebule and the others solved a few secret posts outside the residence, and there was no hindrance, at this time, the time was pressing, and they didn't care about alarming others, dozens of people desperately beat their horses and whipped them, and rushed straight to the north gate.

The capital is simple and narrow, and the city gate is not as heavily guarded as the big city of the Central Plains, and it is majestic and tall. Although there was a hundred-man team guarding here, they did not refuse the horses, and when the golden soldiers guarding the city gate heard the sound of horses' hooves and woke up from their sleep, dozens of Mongolian elite horsemen had already rushed forward.

Everyone didn't speak, didn't pay attention to Jin Bing's scolding, rushed forward, and slashed and killed with the weapons in their hands.

The poor Jin soldiers guarding the gate are all old and weak, but they are used to check the soldiers and civilians who have entered the city, where can they withstand the rush and killing of these dozens of elite Mongolian cavalry, but in a flash, they have been cut down.

When the wise and awake golden soldier saw that it was not a problem, he either fell down and pretended to be dead, or he fled with his legs. It's just that the legs have escaped from the war horse, but after running a few steps, they are chased down and cut over.

After a while, the city gate was already full of blood, most of the golden soldiers guarding the gate were hacked to death, a few who did not die, fell to the ground and groaned, a few Mongolian soldiers jumped off their horses, as long as there was a breath, they would make up for it.

Hebule can't control so much, he is calm on the surface, but in fact he is also very nervous, there are less than 20,000 or 30,000 elite Jurchen soldiers in the capital, plus some Khitan soldiers and Han soldiers, as long as the movement is a little slow, he will fall to the ground and moan for a while, it will be him.

Besides, whether Jin Ren will let him die happily is still a question.

He issued orders again and again, ordering his subordinates to remove the corpses of the golden soldiers who died in the hole in the city gate, remove the door bar, and open the city gate as soon as possible. It's just that in a hurry, the seemingly dilapidated city gate can never be opened. Hebule listened attentively, feeling that there was a lot of noise not far away, obviously the Jin people were already mobilizing troops, and the city gate could not be opened for a long time, but he was in a hurry.

was in a hurry, but Shen Tuo also arrived, and seeing the chaos of the situation, he hurriedly instructed Kang Chengxun: "This city gate must be contained, these Mongolians don't know it, you go and help quickly." ”

Kang Chengxun listened to the order, immediately dismounted, ran to the city gate in a few steps, and lined up everyone. Looking at it by the light of the torch, there was a small copper buckle, which buckled the wooden pole in the copper coffin, and those Mongols only cared about pulling it with brute force, but where could they pull it open.

He stretched out his hand and pulled away the few Mongolian soldiers who were crowded in front of him, everyone knew his identity, and because of his calm bearing, although he did not speak, he made people trust him very much. At that moment, everyone got out of the way, and he took the copper buckle away, and then lightly lifted it, and the wooden bar that had blocked it for a long time had been opened.

Hebule was overjoyed when he saw this, and when he heard the sound of horses' hooves not far behind him, he didn't care about being polite to Shen Tuo, and only said: "Follow us closely for a while, don't get lost!" ”

When the city gate "squeaked" open, Hebul took the lead, forcibly squeezed a passage in the crowd, and went out first, regardless of the fact that there were subordinates still at the city gate.

Shen Tuo was not as eager as he was, and when everyone came out of the doorway, they got on their horses one after another, and then whipped their horses, and after the Mongols rode out, they went out with them.

Chong Ji had also arrived, and when he saw Shen Tuo so calmly and blood-stained black face, he showed an expression of great admiration.

They made such a commotion that the whole city was already alarmed. It's just that the golden soldier system is strict, and no orders can be ordered by superiors, and the nearest garrison cannot be dispatched without authorization. When Zong Han and others, who were deploying and preparing to start capturing the Mongols in the city in the second half of the night, got the news and ordered to catch up, Hebule, Shen Tuo and others had already run out of more than ten miles.

When Wu Qimai and Xianye and others knew the news, they were all furious. Since the Jurchens started their army, they have been invincible, this time they were actually taken advantage of in the old nest, with more than 100 casualties, and the other party did not break down, ran cleanly, and also took Shen Tuo away! Shen Tuo's identity is special, but his importance is far higher than that of the Mongols, who were very weak at that time. On the one hand, Wu Qimai ordered a large force of cavalry to be dispatched, and it was necessary to chase Shen Tuo, and on the other hand, he ordered the roads in Hedong and Hebei to be on guard, strictly guard the checkpoints, and never allow Shen Tuo to be released.

At the same time, he also sent a team of cavalry to rush to the Five Kingdoms City, and transferred more troops and horses along the way to the Five Kingdoms City to deploy defenses in the vicinity of the Five Kingdoms City to prevent Shen Tuo from colluding with the Mongolian cavalry and going to the Five Kingdoms City to rescue Zhao Ji.

In fact, this is a vain worry, although Shen Tuo knows that the strength of the Jin soldiers in the direction of the north gate is weak, but he also knows that the north is the root of the enemy, although the number of troops deployed is not much, but once there is a life, some hunters will come out of the village, and it will be a terrible army to arm it. Although Hebul brought more than 2,000 people here, at most he was only qualified to make a small fight in the border area, and if he dared to go deep into the enemy's hinterland, it would really be a long time for the birthday star.

They hurried out of the city, not daring to pause a single step, but first ran to the camp of Hebule's subordinates, called up more than 2,000 cavalry, and hurriedly set off in the direction of the northwest steppe.

After dawn, although the pursuers behind him could not catch up, they encountered several small groups of Jin soldiers on the road, as many as two or three hundred people, and only a few dozen people in small groups, and in front of more than two thousand cavalry, they were all killed. In this way, they ran until nearly noon, although the Mongolian horses were the most resistant to long distances, but they could not withstand such a fast run, and the horsepower was already a little overwhelmed.

Hebule knew that he was barely running dozens of miles more, and the horsepower could not be continued for a while, but the road was even less, and when he saw a small river, although it was not cut off in winter, he raised his hand to stop everyone.

He jumped off his horse first, and ordered everyone to hurry up and raise their horses, feed them grass and drink horses, but it did not matter whether they ate or not.

While instructing, he arrived in front of Shen Tuo, and saw him sitting on the slope by the river, although he was tired, his face was full of energy and energy, so he smiled and said: "The emperor's body is not as weak as I thought, I thought that after running down such a long road, I had to foam at the mouth." ”

Shen Tuo had already adjusted his breathing at this time, and when he saw him teasing, he was not annoyed, he only smiled: "A while ago, I intended to ride a horse a little more every day, but this time it came in handy, haha." ”

Although the pursuers were out at this time, he only felt that the pressure that had been pressing on his head had disappeared, like a fish entering a river and a bird flying into the forest.

Hebule first nodded yes, then restrained his smile and said to Shen Tuo Zhengse: "The Mongolian people know that the emperor is too weak, and it will not be possible to follow us, thinking that when you return to the city of the Five Kingdoms, you will find an opportunity to lead troops to rescue." Now that this is the case, I hereby swear to the Immortal Heaven that I will take the emperor out of the territory of the Jinren, and if I take this oath, I am willing to die under the horse. ”

Shen Tuo stood up and replied, "The Great Khan is serious, if he can get out of trouble this time, he will repay the Great Khan in the future." ”

He Bule stroked his beard and smiled, nodded and said: "I learned this Chinese dialect in order to deal with the Khitan people back then. It's strange to say, they are obviously Khitans, but they are all poems, shaking their heads and shaking their heads, like Han scholars. ”

He took a sip, apparently suffering a lot when he first learned Chinese.

Shen Tuo said with a smile: "There are also Khitan people who don't speak Chinese, in fact, they are divided into two courts, the north and the south, the Hu people, and the south officials. ”

Hebul shook his head and said, "That's what I said, but which of these Khitans doesn't speak Chinese?" The Khitan said the opposite, I couldn't understand it that day, the Great Song Dynasty was not a strong country, why did everyone learn the Song people's dress, learn the Song people's rules and regulations, learn the Song people's architecture, learn everything, the Song people's things are so good? ”

Shen Tuo asked, "Does the Great Khan want to understand now?" ”

Hebul shook his head and said, "Although silk is good, it is not good to walk when you wear it." Poetry, calligraphy and painting, I don't like these at all. The Song people are doing these all day long, no wonder ......"

Speaking of this, he suddenly realized that the person standing in front of him was not the king of the Song people. If it was before last night, he would have ignored Shen Tuo's feelings and said it straight. It's just that the other party has just taken a dangerous risk and reported to himself that he has saved the lives of thousands of Mongolian tribes, but he can't say anything that hurts people's faces.