readx;? Chapter 8: The Elk (1)

The north wind swept the ground and the white grass folded. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Although the Taihang Mountains do not belong to Hudi, the taste of winter is just as unpleasant. The howling wind carried snow particles from the distant outer part of the fortress, blowing tree trunks, crushing houses, and freezing the weakly strong beasts into a hard corpse.

This kind of ghost weather is by no means a good time to rush. Half a month ago, the local mountain people took refuge in adobe houses or caves, sealed the doors and windows with wooden planks with a thick layer of straw, and then lit a large brazier in the room.

However, on the mountain road leading to Lingchuan City, there were more than 10,000 middle-aged men, staggering one foot deep and one foot shallow. The snow on the mountain road is hard and slippery with people's feet, and if you are not careful, you will roll directly into the abyss on the side of the road and fall to pieces. The north wind is as cold as 10,000 steel needles, and if you slack off, you may be frozen alive into a zombie if you take a rest under the wild trees next to the mountain road!

"God, you have no conscience!"

"The old man of the dog day, the Khitan people of the dog day, the Guo Jiaque of the dog day, the Murong wild donkey of the dog day ......"

"Damn, all deserve to die, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi......"

The men, who were lucky enough not to fall to death or freeze to death for the time being, shrank their necks into the short brown and continued to walk forward with a curse. Most of the short brown on their bodies was made of kudzu, and after being stained with snow and water, it was blown by the wind, and it soon became cold and hard. More snow particles are glued to the short brown surface in layers, decorating the whole person with silver shining, like a movable clay puppet stalk.

Not everyone was struggling under the armor of ice and snow, and in the middle of the line, there were more than a dozen guys wearing brocade robes and fox fur hats, all of whom looked alive. They are the backbone of this team, and they are much more than the rest of the people in terms of seniority and experience in marching and fighting. So the rest of the people could freeze to death, starve to death, or fall down the valley and fall into the flesh, but they could not lose even a single cold hair.

"The third, the fifth, give me the order to go, shut the fuck! If it causes an avalanche, all the big guys will have to be buried here today, and no one can escape!" Riding his horse in the middle of the procession, the most well-dressed man, suddenly turned his head and ordered the two brocade-robed men closest to him.

"Yes!" the two leaders who were ordered immediately turned their mounts, and under the protection of their respective hardcore henchmen, they hurried in the front and rear directions of the group. As he walked, he waved his leather whip and smoked the short brown on the brothers around him, "Shut up, shut up Lao Tzu if you don't want to die." If there's an avalanche, we're all going to have to bury them here!"

"Shut up, shut up Lao Tzu, whoever cries again, Lao Tzu first stripped off his clothes and let him freeze to death. It's cold, it's cold, it's not cold if you go fast. When you get out of the mountain, you can drink as much wine as you like, eat as much meat as you like, and grab as many women as you like!"

"Really, that dare!"

"Third master, third master, how far do you say we have to go to see people?"

"Over there, what do the women look like over there, aren't they all thin lips and big butts?"

"Fifth Master Xie, if we can grab a woman, the biggest ass will definitely be sent to you!"

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The men, who were frozen half to death, instantly regained some of their spirits. While fantasizing about the life of wanton looting after leaving the mountain, he whispered the sycophants of the third master Xie Zhiyong and the fifth master Peng Lianfeng.

"Shut up, shut up. If you want to sleep with Hedong women alive, you should all shut your mouth!"

"Shut up, if you want to sleep with a woman, you have to have a life! Once you are buried here by the snow, you can only sleep on stones for the rest of your life!"

The third master, Xie Zhiyong, and the fifth master, Peng Lianfeng, listened to the comfort, lowered the whip in their hands, and continued to give orders. At this juncture, you can't be too soft-hearted, and you can't be too unkind. If you are too soft-hearted, you will lose the awe of the people below, and it will be difficult to strictly enforce the orders you issue. If it is too unkind, it is easy to make the people below lose their sense of belonging, and when they get out of the mountain, the team may disperse in a hurry.

As the two of them worked together, the swearing in the group gradually became quieter. The faces covered with chilblains also regained a bit of the luster of life.

Drinks, pieces of meat, women, just thinking about it makes people's hearts warm. And the days of wine, meat and women are actually not far away, three months, or two months, or even forty days?

Thinking of the glorious days some time ago, everyone couldn't help but sigh and shake their heads. Alas, the time, the momentum, the luck. Who would have thought that the Khitan Iron Cavalry, which had obviously been able to penetrate all the way to Bianliang, would be squeezed out of the Central Plains by Liu Zhiyuan's men? Who would have thought that the newly appointed Liao Emperor Yelu Ruan would kill a donkey and directly destroy the Manmen of Zhao Yanshou, the privy envoy to the Southern Privy Council? Who would have thought that Du Chongwei would be so mischievous? Obviously he still had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on hand and countless military rations, but he suddenly opened the city and surrendered?

He Du Chongwei surrendered, in fact, it didn't matter, as long as he sent someone to inform the prefectures and counties in advance. It's a big deal, the brothers also returned to Han with them. Anyway, around Yedu, there are at least six of the ten knots and thorn historians who are self-styled heroes in the green forest. As long as someone does it for the official, it doesn't matter whether he carries the banner of Da Liao or the banner of Da Han.

But the lack of virtue is the lack of virtue, Du Chongwei quietly surrendered himself, but he did not send anyone to send a letter to his colleagues around him! This is miserable, after successfully seizing Yedu, the Han army immediately closed the door to continue to surrender. Then he swept with a lance, killing all the local heroes in Zhouzhou, Wu'an, Handan, Weizhou and other places who did not change their doors in time, and killed corpses all over the field. Directly killed on the south bank of the Hutuo River, there was no longer a single soldier of the Liao State, and only then did Shi Shiran return triumphantly.

It was not until this moment that the "heroes of troubled times" who were lucky enough to escape into the mountains in time finally heard that Liu Zhiyuan, the son of the Han Dynasty, had suffered a stroke for many days and could not take care of things for a long time. In the past half a month or so, everything in the army has been controlled by General Guo Wei. Yang Wei, Wang Zhang, and Su Fengji "acted for the tiger" and forcibly blocked the news that Liu Zhiyuan was terminally ill. It's just a pity for Du Chongwei, obviously if he persists for half a month longer, he will be able to leap into the dragon gate, but he forcibly deceived Guo Wei to disarm and restrain his hands, and from then on, life and death will no longer be controlled by himself.

"Alas, it's all fate!" Not only did the minions feel a lot of emotion in their hearts, but the big boss Shi Hongjie himself, thinking about what he had encountered in the past year or so, also kept shaking his head.

He was originally a good man in Lin Shu Mountain, and he had nowhere to stand by the official army, but suddenly one day, the official army collapsed without a fight. sent someone to inquire carefully, only to know that Du Chongwei led an army of 100,000 to surrender to the enemy, and gave up half of Hebei. The Khitans, under the leadership of the surrendered general Zhang Yanze, went straight to Bianliang. The civil and military officials of the prefectures and counties along the way either surrendered or fled for their lives, and none of them dared to stand in front of the Khitans' horses.

Not far from the foot of Lin Shu Mountain is Lin County, since the county order abandoned the official and absconded, Shi Hongjie felt that he didn't need to be polite. The defeated general who led the remnants of his command chased the horse's tail of the official army and rushed directly into the county seat. Then he casually arrested a scholar as a master, wrote a letter of allegiance and sent it to the Khitan military camp closest to the county seat. After that, regardless of whether the other party agreed or not, he gave himself the official position of the envoy of the Heavenly Righteous Army and began to give orders.

followed by more than a year of chaos and chaos, and no one could take care of Lin County. Shi Hongjie, the self-proclaimed envoy of the Heavenly Righteous Army, became the local emperor of the soil. Recruiting troops and buying horses, collecting grass and storing grain, the team under his command has rapidly swelled from dozens to more than 20,000. During this period, he came to the fire with other heroes twice, and won a big victory. As a result, no one dared to underestimate him, and even Du Chongwei, the envoy of the Tianxiong Army, specially sent someone to express his intention to win him over.

However, the good times did not last long, and soon, the wind direction gradually became chaotic. Liu Zhiyuan, the king of the Han Dynasty, suddenly erected a banner to expel the Khitan, and on the land of Hebei, many heroes responded with troops. The Tianxiong army made Du Chongwei go east and west, and he was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground. The Khitans also suffered heavy losses because they were caught off guard.

At that time, some people advised Shi Hongjie to hurry up and adapt to the situation, however, he was not very optimistic about Liu Zhiyuan's Han army, and he didn't think that anyone else in the world could stop the Khitan iron cavalry. So when Gao Xingzhou went north to quell the rebellion, he decisively stood on Du Chongwei's side. Although he did not send troops to help in the war, he did not forget to wave the flag and shout for Daliao.

With this loyalty, he successfully impressed Zhao Yanshou, the privy envoy of the Southern Court of Liao. Successfully replaced the self-proclaimed Tianyi Army Festival envoy with the Emperor of Liao, and was given the false position of knowing the affairs of the Privy Council, and the scenery was unique for a while.

This nominal position brought ruin to him and his brethren. After Du Chongwei surrendered, the Han army quickly took over Yedu. In order to avoid local turmoil after the class teacher, Guo Wei, Murong Yanchao, Gao Xingzhou and others did not hesitate to raise their butcher knives towards the surrounding states and counties under the banner of the Liao State. A group of "heroes and heroes" who had no time to change their doors were either captured and beheaded by the Han army, or abandoned their nests and fled into the deep mountains and old forests with their brothers to survive.

People who are used to living a comfortable life can't get used to returning to the mountains at first glance. Soon, the brothers under Shi Hongjie's command were reduced from more than 20,000 to about 10,000. If he doesn't want to find a way out, I'm afraid that if he can't wait for the spring flowers to bloom, he will be completely beaten back to the prototype, and once again become the little thief that everyone shouted and beaten, and he will never come out again.

"Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi!" Gritting his teeth sharply, Shi Hongjie grabbed his mount, turned around and waved his arm vigorously. He didn't dare to shout too loudly, but he tried to make everyone around him hear the brocade-robed henchmen clearly, "Kill people and set fire to Zhao'an! Let's be neat this time, and after taking Lingchuan, immediately ask for Zhao'an." That place in Zezhou has always been a family of officials and bandits. As long as we show enough strength, we won't worry that the government will not come to catch up with us!"

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