Chapter 0003: Sympathy
"Where will the thief go!"
Shi Min naturally couldn't sit back and watch the elite cavalry of the Xianbei people slip away like this, making his tactics fall short.
After seeing the young general who was the same age as himself, Shi Min's heart jumped, if he guessed correctly, this guy would be Murong Ke, and he would be his enemy of life and death in the future!
Now that Murong Ke is killed here, won't I, Shi Min, change my life against the sky?!
So the moment he saw Murong Ke, Shi Min couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, urged the red horse Zhulong under his crotch, raised the double-edged spear in his hand and rushed out, and the spearhead was directed at Murong Ke!
Murong Ke was also taken aback, and hurriedly raised the Cloud Piercing Halberd in his hand to block it.
With a "choking" sound, the two horses staggered.
Murong Ke was shocked by Shi Min's blow, and his mouth was numb, and he almost wanted to bleed. Shi Min was unforgiving, and raised a double-edged spear with a few thrusts and sweeps, and the moves were fatal, without dragging the mud and water at all, and almost killed Murong Ke several times!
Murong Ke was so frightened that he couldn't possess his body, he knew that he was not Shi Min's opponent, and it was already good that he could barely parry a dozen rounds.
It's annoying! Murong Ke panicked, hurriedly called a few horsemen to come over to block, and then took the road by himself.
When Shi Min slashed and killed several Xianbei cavalry in a row, he looked around and saw that Murong Ke had already run out of the encirclement of the Zhao army with his soldiers and horses, and was confronting them there.
Of course, Shi Min would not be stupid, and in order to kill a Murong Ke, he risked his life and rushed into the ranks of the Xianbei people.
Although Shi Min has the courage of ten thousand people, but his personal bravery is limited after all, Ran Min in history was defeated and killed, isn't it that the war horse under his crotch fell off the chain at a critical moment and suddenly died?
The two armies confronted each other for a long time.
The Zhao army on the opposite side didn't make any moves, it was still the phalanx that looked like a great enemy, and the Xianbei people didn't dare to act rashly, but Murong Ke felt very puzzled in his heart.
"Why didn't the Zhao army retreat?"
Feng Budo, who was beside him, crossed his hands and said: "General, there are only two reasons why the Zhao army on the opposite side does not move. One is that they have reinforcements behind them, and the other is that they are pretending, knowing that retreating at this time will be attacked and killed by our army's elite cavalry, so they dare not retreat! ”
Murong Ke bowed his head and said: "In my opinion, this Zhao army is a strong force, maybe this is just a bait released by Shi Hu!" There must be reinforcements behind them, otherwise these thousands of Zhao troops would never dare to risk the annihilation of the entire army to stay and block our attack! ”
"The general is wise!" Feng Budo complimented.
"The Zhao army has retreated, and our army has also gained a lot, and the results are remarkable. Feng is not suspicious, you immediately go to inform the king and ask him to withdraw his troops to avoid the danger of being surrounded and annihilated by the Zhao army! ”
"No!" Feng Budo then took the order and left.
A big victory fell short because of the sudden rise of this foreign army, to be honest, Murong Ke was really unwilling, but he knew that their Yan Kingdom could not afford to take this risk!
Murong Ke sighed, then rode his horse to the middle of the confrontation between the two armies, waved the horse whip in his hand and said, "I am Murong Ke!" The chief general of the Zhao army doesn't know if he can come out to see him? ”
Murong Ke invited him for a while, and Shi Min naturally had no reason to refuse. Shi Min also patted the black wind horse and stepped forward, standing opposite Murong Ke, both of them looked at each other for a while, and they couldn't help but sigh, it is really a hero in the world, and a hero is a teenager!
Shi Min and Murong Ke are about the same age, and the latter is only one year older than the former. But they are already generals in command of thousands of troops!
Shi Min hugged his fists and said: "General Murong, in Xia Shi Min, this is polite!" ”
"Oh, surnamed Shi? The general is a royal family of Zhao? ”
At this time, there were two Zhao states in the world, one was the former Zhao established by the Xiongnu Liu Yao, because of the inheritance of the original Xiongnu Han State, it was also called "Han Zhao". One is the Later Zhao established by Shile, also known as Zhao.
Nowadays, people today call the former Zhao "Liu Zhao" and "West Zhao", and the Later Zhao is called "Qian Zhao", "East Zhao", or "Shi Zhao", so as to distinguish them. It is said that these two Zhao states were actually originally from the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, but the Han civil strife continued, which finally led to the division of the country.
The Western Zhao had perished, and now the state of the Zhao Dynasty had basically unified the area north of the Yellow River.
When Murong Ke heard that Shi Min's surname was Shi, he thought of the Zhao royal family. This is not surprising, Shi Min is only a weak crown year, he is in charge of an army, it is impossible to have a deep enough background, and in ancient times, such a background can only be a child of the royal family!
Well, in fact, Shi Min is really a royal child of Zhao Zhao, after all, he is the adopted grandson of Shi Hu, the king of Zhao State, and the treatment Shi Hu gave him is no different from that of ordinary princes and grandsons.
However, the only thing that made Murong Ke feel strange was that Shi Min's appearance resembled that of a Han person, and he did not have the characteristics of a Han person!
Compared with the Xiongnu, who have a majority of yellow people, the Xiongnu have obvious Caucasian characteristics.
The Karma people have the characteristics of deep eyes, high noses, and many beards. There are several theories about its ethnic origin: one is said to be the descendants of the 19 kinds of Zhongqiangqu who entered the Xiongnu; Or that the Western Regions Hu occupies the main component; Or it is one of the Western Regions Hu; Or it is said that it has a relationship with the Satsuki clan.
Anyway, it's miscellaneous!
When Shi Min heard this, he shook his head lightly and said, "I am a Han'er, not a Qianren." ”
surnamed Shi, brave and brave, and in charge of an army at a young age. Thinking of these characteristics of Shi Min, a person's name appeared in Murong Ke's mind.
"I don't know what the relationship between General Shi Min and Shi Zhan is?"
"It's my father."
"It turned out to be a famous general!" Murong Ke said with emotion, "The tiger father has no dogs. When Ke was in Liaodong, he admired the name of your father Shi Zhan for a long time, and I can't wait to see you, and today I have to see you, the general, what a blessing for three lives! ”
After greeting for a while, Shi Min lost interest in continuing to talk with him, and said bluntly: "General Murong, did you invite me out to meet in order to delay the arrival of King Yan's main army?" ”
"Haha." Murong Ke suddenly smiled and said, "This trick may work for others, but it won't work for generals like generals!" You Zhao Guoguo has a solid background, and our Yan Country is not in time, and only a fool would do such a hard thing. ”
"General Shi Min, in today's battle, I could have led these two thousand elite cavalry to expand the results of the battle, but I didn't expect to kill such a foreign army as you halfway, and I could still stubbornly block the attack of our elite cavalry on the field."
"I am deeply impressed by your bravery and your commanding ability! Alas, Ke is only afraid that Zhao Guo will have another famous general like you in the future, and I am afraid that the rise of our Yan Kingdom will be hopeless! ”
Looking at Murong Ke with a sigh of relief, Shi Min was noncommittal, but he snorted in his heart, disdainful.
If it were Shi Min in history, at such a bloody age, when he heard someone compliment him in such a different way, he was afraid that his tail would be cocked to the sky!
But the reborn Shi Min didn't think so. It is clearly recorded in the history books that in the battle of Weichang, the Great Wei Emperor Ran Min fought with the Yan general Murong Ke, and defeated the opponent in ten battles.
Murong Ke connected the war horses with iron locks, and selected 5,000 brave and not self-righteous people among the Xianbei soldiers who were good at shooting, and marched in a phalanx.
The red horse that Ran Min rode was named Zhu Long, who traveled thousands of miles a day, Ran Min held a double-edged spear on his left and a hook halberd on his right, and attacked with the wind, killing more than 300 Xianbei soldiers.
In an instant, the Yandi cavalry swarmed and surrounded Ran Min.
Ran Min was outnumbered, the prancing horse broke through the siege and fled eastward, walked more than 20 miles, the horse died for no reason, Ran Min was captured by Murong Ke, and was sent to Jicheng (today's Jinji County) together with Dong Yan and Zhang Wen.
Ran Min's hundred battles and victories, quite similar to Xiang Ji and Sun Ce, competing with the remnants of the Shi clan, may not be defeated, and the Murong clan joined this war that had nothing to do with it, and took advantage of its prosperity.
Ran Min in history was a stubborn character, so he was defeated by Wei Chang, captured by Murong Kesheng and then beheaded in Longcheng to curb Shanshan.
Shi Min said: "It's man-made. General Murong, to be honest, in today's battle, if I hadn't insisted on staying to block the Yan Goblin Cavalry under your command, maybe our Zhao Kingdom would really suffer heavy losses this time and return defeated. ”
"So the general's reinforcements have arrived?"
"Not bad." At this time, there is no need to hide Murong Ke, and it seems that Murong Ke has already made a countermeasure.
Murong Ke sighed and said, "It's really a blessing to see the general today. A young and promising hero like you, a general, is rare in the world! ”
"Aren't you one of them?" Shi Min said with a smile.
When Murong Ke heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then laughed heartily: "Hahahaha!" It's the pole, it's the pole! No wonder I have a sense of pity when I see the general today, it turns out that you and I are all fellow believers! General, you and I are our own masters, and we will not be able to meet each other in the coming days, please cherish it! ”
"General Murong is too. Please cherish yourself! He met each other in the army, and asked his subordinates to see the real chapter! ”
"No, no, no!" Murong Ke hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Let's see the real chapter in the battle!" General, your bravery is the best in the world, and you are ashamed of yourself! ”
"Farewell!"
"Farewell!"
Seeing Murong Ke running towards the north with the remaining more than 1,000 elite horses, Shi Min knew that he was retreating, but he was still quite emotional in his heart.
If you can get a confidant in life, what more can you ask for?
In fact, in terms of personality, Shi Min and Murong Ke are the same kind of people, they are both brave and martial, the same are extremely deep in the city, and the same are outstanding in strategy, they are destined to become the most shining stars and heroes of this era.
But the tragic thing is that there are too many heroes in an era, especially those who are quite strong.
Cao Mengde is powerful enough, right? Wen Taowu is the first in the world, and his cultural and martial arts are not even comparable to those founding emperors, such as Liu Bang, Li Yuan, and Zhu Yuanzhang, but why can't Cao Cao dominate the country?
Without him, because in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, none of Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, Sun Quan and others were easy to mess with, they were the same as Cao Mengde, they all belonged to the brightest stars of that era!
If it weren't for each of them, Shi Min really wanted to make a friend with Murong Ke and drink happily.