Chapter 135: Troubled Times Come
An officer of the Xiliang Army bowed his hand with some horror and said: "Captain He, all the women plundered by our army have been returned, and the compensation of 4,000 gold has also been offered." I don't know if Captain He has any other orders? ”
He Bai said with a solemn face: "I tried to ask the horse merchants in the East City to buy ten thousand-mile treasure horses for me to ride, and the total cost was as much as 98 million yuan. Originally, it would be delivered to my house today and tomorrow, but I don't want that horse merchant to be killed by your army. I can't find people now, I can't find horses, so I can only attribute this loss to your father-in-law. Please also go back and tell General Dong Qian, hoping that he can compensate me for another ten thousand miles of treasure horses. ”
"Huh?" The officer of the Xiliang Army was taken aback, why should he still compensate? But seeing that He Bai's face was not good, he had to surrender his orders and prepare to go back to tell Dong Zhuo.
When Dong Zhuo heard that He Bai had asked for compensation again, he couldn't help but be stunned, ten thousand miles of treasure horses, and He Bai could say it. It's just that when I plundered the horse market yesterday, I got a lot of high-quality horses, including those with qualifications like thousands of horses, and there are more than a dozen horses, and I don't know if what He Bai said is true or false.
Li Ru on the side couldn't help but say with a gloomy face: "Lord, this son is too greedy. Again and again, bullying our army is hateful. When the lord takes power, he must be given a good look. ”
Dong Zhuo asked, "Wen You thinks this son is deceiving me?" Without waiting for Li Ru to explain, Dong Zhuo burst out laughing and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, this son is very brave, I think I guessed something." Otherwise, it would not be so lion asking for the treasure horse with his mouth wide open. Wen You thinks that Bao Juyu is not? ”
Li Ru gritted his teeth and said: "Give him half of it, and then order the messenger to pass the word, and you need to know how to do it in moderation." Moreover, the affairs of the court are beyond your interference, so don't make a mistake. ”
Dong Zhuo's face turned gloomy and asked, "Wen You thinks that the Ten Standing Attendants will believe that our army is here to help them?" I've been waiting here for ten days, and I don't want to wait any longer. ”
Li Ru clenched his fists and said affirmatively: "I will believe it." Because they have no way out. Yuan Shao pretended to take He Jin's order to order the officials of various states and counties to capture all the clansmen of the Ten Permanent Servants, and then kill them together after capturing the Ten Permanent Servants. This news has been reported to the palace by the commander of Fengche, and the ten permanent servants have been assured that the lord will lead troops to help, and they will definitely try to fight for their lives. It's just that whether he can successfully kill He Jin is unknown. ”
Dong Zhuo laughed and said: "I heard that He Jin always follows Yuan Benchu's words, and he has little assertiveness, and he is often played by Yuan Benchu in the palm of his hand. If you knew that I was bad from it, would you blame me? ”
Li Ruyin smiled and said: "Whoever makes the Yuan family want to dominate the government too much, even if there is a plan, there will be defeat." It has been too long and too long for the world to control the power of election with the Qing Dynasty, and it has often made it difficult for my generation to be promoted by the court. If it hinders my progress, it is time to replace the lord and let the government return to the Qingming of the former Han Dynasty. ”
"In moderation? Can I interfere? Don't make mistakes? He Bai laughed and said: "With these five thousand-mile treasure horses, everything in the world is doing my again." ”
Dong Jun's envoy was overjoyed and hurriedly left. He Bai circled around five Dawan Qianli BMWs about seven years old. I didn't expect to knock on Dong, and I really knocked five thousand miles of horses, you must know that He Bai's bottom line in his heart is three, and it is definitely an accident to have two more.
In ancient times, there were many people who were good at Soma, and they wrote many Soma scriptures. However, most of them have been lost in later generations, and only a few horses survive.
In later generations, there was a way to pass on the horse, with the eye as the first, and the second view of the head and face to be round. Soma doesn't look at the ancestors, like a fool's word of mouth. The eyes are like hanging bells and purple dips, and the eyes are like sprinkling beans to be distinct. The white wisps run through the eyes for five hundred, and the pupils are colorful and long-lived. Nose lines have words that must be long-lived, like fire like forty springs. The top door of Shouxuan is higher than the eye, and the mane is hairy. The face is like a peeled rib without meat, and the nose is like a calendula trough. The ears are like willow leaves, and the neck is as long as a phoenix and a rooster crows......
Anyway, He Bai couldn't understand it, but he knew that these five treasure horses were eight feet tall at the shoulders, and the muscles of their bodies were nearly ten centimeters taller than He Bai. It was no longer convenient for He Bai to fly on the horse, so he could only honestly step on the horse and pedal on the horse. Counting the height of the horse's head and ears, it is fully two meters and four meters high. And the length is not a ponytail, but also two and a half meters long. The horse weighs one and a half tons, three times the weight of a black horse, and the whole is a light off-road sports car.
In fact, for He Bai, a thousand miles horse is not as fast and comfortable and convenient as a motorcycle in later generations, but the reputation of a thousand miles horse since ancient times is too good, and riding a high-headed horse is also majestic, so He Bai has some expectations for it.
At this time, although the Maxima is good, it is impossible to really use it to run thousands of miles. Whatever horse you ride, you have to follow a slow army. Maxima just has a huge amplification effect on charging into battle and the heads-up of generals. For example, the height of a horse, combined with the height of a person, is more powerful than riding a bantam horse in a condescending manner.
It's just that the horses are too delicate, difficult to raise, specially cared for, and easy to lose fat, it is best to ride the generals with conditions, and it is better for ordinary light cavalry to ride a short Wuhuan horse (Mongolian horse).
Although the black horse does not have a long enough stride, is not very fast, and has poor flying ability, it has a strong staying power. It is common for armed riders to carry a weight of about 90 kilograms and travel 60-90 kilometers (200 miles in Hanli) a day. The forced march can be up to 150 kilometers and can be done in 8 to 10 days, the main thing is that it is cheap, and it is not heart-wrenching to lose.
It is difficult for Maxima to become a scale, although it has strong explosive power, strong flying ability, and fast speed, but the main reason is that it is not endurance enough and cannot last. If it weren't for a well-known rider riding it, I'm afraid it would have run to death before it had run a thousand miles.
Therefore, after He Bai won the horse, the first thing he thought of was to buy people's hearts. The five horses have black, white, yellow, red, and blue, He Bai chooses white, leaves black to Brother Dian Wei, yellow to Huang Zhong to ride, red to Zhang Liao, and cyan to Han Meng, and the distribution is just right.
Huang Zhong was rewarded with a thousand miles, and he couldn't help but thank him. Huang Zhong still has no merit, but he has won a lot of rewards from He Bai, and he has always been honest, and he is very embarrassed. It's just that there is little war at this time, so you can only be ready from time to time, and you can charge into battle at any time.
After He Bai dealt with the matter of the Sunset Pavilion, he rewarded Chen Kui with 100 gold, which was counted as a merit. Without waiting for He Bai to reraise the army and return to Xiyuan, he saw He Xian leading Zhang Zhang and others to come in a hurry, and shouted: "The general has an order, and ordered the army to move to the Sunset Pavilion, and ordered Captain He to lead the troops to monitor Dong Zhuo's army nearby, so as not to make it go half a step eastward." ”
He Bai asked puzzledly: "Why did the general give me this order?" ”
He Xian wiped his sweat and said: "At noon, an official from the West Garden sent an envoy to report to the general, saying that the captain had no edict and privately led the troops south to seek revenge on Dong Zhuo. The general was deeply afraid that someone in the DPRK would take the opportunity to question the captain, and he was afraid that the captain would lose to Dong Jun; So he ordered me to send an order to the lieutenant to move to the Sunset Pavilion and monitor the Dong army nearby, but not to engage the Dong army. If the Dong army moves again, it can be attacked by waving troops, so that the general's military order is in front of it, so as not to be criticized by the courtiers. ”
He Bai was moved by He Jin's concern for himself, and said excitedly: "Dong Zhuo has been forced by me, and the matter has been settled. It's the general, now is the time when the ten permanent servants are panicked, and the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, you have to watch the general in the mansion recently, don't let the general enter the palace easily, otherwise I am afraid that disaster will come. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, He Bai regretted it again, but seeing that He Xian responded casually, thinking that he didn't take this matter to heart, He Bai breathed a sigh of relief. Even He Xian didn't take it seriously, so he must have taken it even more inappropriately. He Bai was extremely conflicted during this period of time and felt quite uncomfortable. But the person concerned didn't care, and He Bai could only think about it at this time.
Since He Jin asked himself to move to the vicinity of the Sunset Pavilion, then let's move. So taking advantage of the fact that it was still early, he ordered the army under his command to prepare for the matter of choosing a place to camp, and sent a herald to let all the baggage soldiers of the army that had been prepared in the West Garden move to the Sunset Pavilion.
With the help of thousands of people in the sunset pavilion, the army cut down the trees near the pavilion, and placed a fence and antlers on a small hill, and a large round camp with a diameter of 200 meters was finally erected after two hours. Because the baggage soldiers had not arrived, they first dug pits for cooking and raised war horses. Because it is close to the people's house, it is still He Bai's feudal people, so everything is not worried, and at about half past eight in the evening, it is finally possible to eat.
At nine o'clock, the baggage soldiers finally drove 3,000 baggage carts and more than 5,000 people to arrive by night, and then it was the matter of raising the tent and unloading the carts to make food, and waited until twelve o'clock in the evening to complete the placement of all things. He Bai arranged the night patrol again, and then lay down in the main tent and fell asleep.
However, not long after lying down, Hu Cong came to say: "Lord, there are guests from the palace who have come to see him. ”
He Bai suddenly turned over and sat up, the guests came to see him at this point, it must be that something big happened in Luoyang City, the capital division, could it be ...... Is He Jin dead? He Bai didn't know the exact time of He Jin's death in history, he had been waiting in Luoyang City during this time, and he didn't want to think that such a thing happened when he had just left the city today.
He Bai hurriedly shouted, "Bring him quickly." ”
Not long after, a guest who He Bai valued was brought to the main tent, and before He Bai asked, the guest shouted: "Prince, it's not good, today General He was summoned by the Queen Mother, and when he entered the palace in the afternoon, he was killed by the Ten Standing Attendants...... His subordinates bribed the city soldiers who knew each other, and only then did they fall down the city and come to the army to report the news. I hope the prince is prepared. ”
He Bai came out of the tent and looked in the direction of Luoyang City, after all, it still happened. In the end, he did not change history, so that He Jin escaped death. What follows is the chaos in the world, all the order and rules in the world will be broken, and it will be time for the troubled era where the respect for power is the mainstay.
And one's own responsibility is to re-establish a new order and rules that belong to oneself and the people of the world on top of the body of the Eastern Han Dynasty that is about to die.