Chapter Eighty-Seven: Slowly Burning Rongzhou
Green smoke curled up, and a figure walked out.
Dian Wei, who was guarding outside the tent, looked at the swaying brazier, and then glanced at the tent, and his fierce face was also embarrassed. Then he straightened up and looked around seriously.
In the big tent, Guan Yu's lips were slightly pursed, and his phoenix eyes were moist; Zhang Fei glared at his eyes, took half a step excitedly, and called in a low voice: "Big brother!" β
The emperor's clothes, the figure of the hanging seal slowly turned around, looking at the two brothers in front of him, as if he was in a trance, seeing the faces of the two brothers again, the sourness in his heart surged up again, but unfortunately he couldn't shed tears in his eyes.
"Prepare ...... To be able to see the two brothers again, the regret of this life, go to one of them. β
Liu Bei stepped forward and arched his hand, then directly hugged Guan Zhang, and his voice was choked: "Back then, when I heard that the second brother was defeated and died, I cried for my brother and broke his liver and intestines!" swore to fight to the death with the Dongwu rats to avenge the second brother, but why blinded his reason for the hatred of his brother...... In the end, it fell short...... I'm sorry for my brother, Yun Chang and Yide, for failing to avenge you! β
"Third brother...... How did the third brother die? Guan Yu wiped away his tears and looked at Zhang Fei. The latter cried even louder: "Second brother, before the younger brother avenged the second brother, he was killed by Xiaoxiao and was beheaded like the second brother!" β
"Third brother!"
Guan Yu hugged Zhang Fei and cried again, he raised his fist and pounded his chest, "Big brother, third brother...... But I lost Jingzhou, so I affected you to follow...... Feather is too much!! β
"Yun Chang don't blame himself, how can there be a perfect person in the world!" Liu Bei patted the two of them on the shoulder, and his voice was gentle: "Jingzhou is just one place, how can it be compared with my brother, now that the brothers are reunited, it is better than anything else, don't cry, Yun Chang and Yide don't cry!" β
In the tent, Su Chen looked at the three brothers hugging them and crying and laughing, and he was also happy in his heart, so he didn't bother them, and silently withdrew from the big tent and came outside.
Walking in the camp in the night breeze, Dian Wei followed behind.
"Suddenly, I think it's a pleasure to let them appear in this world, not only to let them show their former talents, but to make up for their regrets, right?"
Dian Wei stood one step behind, his thick beard stretched, and he grinned, he agreed with Su Chen's words, and the moment he woke up and saw Cao Cao, it seemed that the lack of the past was filled in an instant.
It's a feeling that no one else can experience.
"Okay, let's go and rest, tomorrow we will form an alliance and swear a master, and we should also return to Rongzhou." Su Chen walked past the patrolling soldiers and turned to go to the camp where they were resting.
Dian Wei did not leave, still following behind, and then guarded the camp.
The bonfire burned quietly, and the speckled sparks floated into the night sky along the blowing night wind, and under the same night, in the northwest of Rongzhou, in the pass connecting the grassland, every household had already turned off its lights.
In the darkness, there were torches swaying on the castle tower, reflecting the figures on horseback below entering the city gate.
The number of 3,000 Xirong cavalry, wearing leather jackets and fur hats, holding spears and scimitars at their waists, marched through the city pass in three columns, and went to the city gate in the east from the houses in the pass, and went out of there to the south, which is the boundary of Rongzhou.
Like a torrent of advancing procession, someone stopped his horse on the side of the road and looked back at the West City Tower above.
shouted in Yan Guo's dialect, which was not smooth: "Thank you General Qi for letting me wait for Xirong to enter the customs, I will not let your Qi family down, Xirong will kill more of your people, haha!" β
On the city tower, Qi Youhu, the youngest son of the Qi family, was about to rush down with a weapon, and shouted in his mouth: "Let go of me, I will go down and kill him!" β
Qi Xuan was holding his younger brother stiffly, and he also had an indignant expression on his face.
"Little Tiger, no, what did Dad order?"
"He only cares about his official position, and only thinks about his generational loyalty!" Qi Youhu went to hold his hand, turned his head and yelled at the back of the city tower: "The people can't keep it, and there are still fart loyalty, and they can't wash it off for a lifetime!" If the ancestors of the Qi family can hear it and recognize you, it would be strange that the loyalty of the Qi family is all ruined in the hands of you, this bullshit court, the bullshit emperor-"
Qi Xuan hugged the third brother and shouted over there: "Big brother, you can also say something!" β
Qi Wei pursed his lips, he turned his head to look at his father, the shoulders of the figure facing his back twitched slightly, as if he was trying to suppress his emotions, he clenched his fists, faced outside the city gate, and spoke in a low voice.
"Qi Wei and Qi Xuan, take your younger brother down to rest."
The two sons glanced at each other, sighed, and pulled the struggling Qi Youhu away from the city, and the latter struggled and writhed, constantly screaming and even scolding at his father downstairs in the city!
"Qi Baoguo, the imperial court pushed you forward...... The charge of letting Xirong people enter the customs in the future is being carried by the Qi family! β
"You're getting confused!"
ββ¦β¦ This court is not saved, what are you still doing to guard it, helping the enemy to kill your own people, you can sleep and eat!! β
"Qi Baoguoβ"
The last voice of his son disappeared in the city, Qi Baoguo closed his eyes and gritted his teeth, his fists were full of powder pressed from the wall stacks, he turned around and walked to the other side, looked at the tail team of Xirong people, raised his hand suddenly, and slapped himself.
The night settled, and the east gradually turned white.
On the ground below where the birds passed, the withered grass splashed with the dust, and in the gradually revealing spring day, the figures on horseback with bloody breath entered the northwest boundary of Rongzhou, which was more than 100 miles away, overnight.
On the way, they ransacked a place called Yanshan Ranch, killed the soldiers and herdsmen inside, stripped the women naked to vent, and then hung themselves under the beams and hanged themselves.
The blood-stained blade brushed his sleeve, and the evil car tooth licked the skin of his mouth, looked at the vast forests, fields, and rolling mountains and forests, and took a deep breath.
"The place of the Yan people is so beautiful, it has a beauty different from the grassland."
The Xijon cavalry around him gathered, looked at the place where the smoke rose, and laughed, this would be their hunting ground.
In front of the horizon, the morning breeze blows through the fields.
The peasants, who had not left after receiving the warning, stood in the field, and saw in the distance the figures on horseback standing on the hill to the northwest looking this way, and hurriedly dropped their hoes, turned around and ran towards the village.
When he entered the village, he shouted: "The people of Xijon are coming-"
There were only a dozen families in the village, and after receiving the notice, ten families left first to take refuge in Yunyao City.
At present, there are not many people in the village who have come out of their homes, and at first they probably didn't believe it when they heard this, and they were even more reluctant to leave the crops they had just sown, and everyone's faces turned pale at this time.
"Can you see that? Could it be the soldiers and horses of the imperial court. β
"How many are there?!"
The man panted and shook his head, "I can't see clearly, but the dense crowd is full of cavalry, and they are all dressed in leather jackets, and they are definitely not the army of the imperial court." β
As they spoke, they felt the ground tremble slightly under their feet. The faces showed panic, and I don't know who shouted: "Run!" β
Twenty or so people fled in terror, rushed home to take their children, or take the valuable things of the family, and rushed to the path outside the village, outside the village, the Xirong cavalry let out a savage 'ho-ho' spread through the fields and woods, and poured into the village like a tide, and those who did not have time to run were caught up by them, slashed to death, and set the houses on fire.
When the black smoke rose, the whistling cavalry group fell on the field like a carpet, like a sweeping torrent engulfing the villages, encountering a small group of Rongzhou soldiers and horses on patrol, rushing up to launch a cavalry shot, disrupting the opponent's formation, and then dividing and crushing them, killing the soldiers, cutting off their heads and tying them under the horse's neck, and continuing to push.
The beacon of the alarm is lit.
Upon hearing the news, groups of soldiers rushed to reinforce them, and another group was routed by the Xijon cavalry that came and went like the wind on the way, and were chased and killed on the plain like rabbits.
The mighty 3,000 Xirong cavalry, through the rudimentary defense line in the northwest, went straight to the boundary of Yunyao County, at this time most of the people outside the city have rushed to the city, the two sons of Yunzhen Marquis have begun to make preparations to defend the city, the younger son Wu Zixun ran among the big households in the city to tell each other, and let people bring letters, and the horse rushed to Qizhou and Ding'an City in the south.
The Fang family, located in the city, was originally going to move out with his family, not wanting to join the gangsters. But after hearing the entry of the Hu cavalry, the old man in the family was shocked at first, and then was silent for a moment, and hurried the rooms that were preparing their bags to the front hall.
"Although the old man doesn't like to rebel against thieves, he can't tolerate barbarian bullying!" Fang Wenye looked at everyone in the family gathered in the hall, separated the young and strong, and stood aside, "Organize the servants of the family to go to Zhuangzi outside the city immediately, and the grain that can't be moved away will be burned in a fire, and it can't be cheap barbarians." β
Although some people were afraid, no one disobeyed the old man's words, and hundreds of men, women, and children were directly related to the family, and more than 30 young and strong juniors were divided, bringing the guards and servants, pulling donkey carts, carriages, and carts, and holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, shouting out of the city.
It will take another day for the fast horse to gallop to Ding'an.
At this time, in Yuzhou, the war drums on the city tower resounded in the wilderness.
Boom... Knock knock.. Knock Knock Knock β
Several war drums lined up on the left and right of the tower, and the soldiers waved their arms bare-chested, and the drumsticks rained down on the cowhide drums, moving farther with the wind.
In the wilderness far away from the tower, the banner hunts.
Eight military formations of five thousand people were placed side by side, and tens of thousands of figures stretched around the high platform in front of them, and on the high platform, the voice of the Marquis of Chang resounded above for a long time.
ββ¦β¦ In today's world, traitors are in charge, the faint monarch holds the country, and the drought has just passed, and the faint monarch is secretly harming Zhongliang, and just last night, they also sent assassins to commit murder in the streets, wanting to put the princes to death. β
Stretching up the stairs, Chang Yuhou Duan Jin stood in armor, his voice gradually changing from low to angry.
ββ¦β¦ What is he, the emperor?! Using all the dirty means, his land of Dayan is also fought by our ancestors with a knife and a shot! The emperor of a country, despicable and shameless, since he ascended the throne, he has done a good thing for the people, and he has bought a winter coat for the soldiers of Dayanββ"
His voice paused for a moment, and he stood on the high platform, the wind blowing, and the impassioned voice went farther away.
ββ¦β¦ Today, we and other loyal and righteous people in the eight states, for the prosperity of the family and the country, and the happiness of the people, gather here, sacrifice three sacrifices and swear, and use the people to raise the army, the rebel division, and the thief of the court, the king of mediocrity! β
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
The sound echoed passionately in the heavens and the earth, the flags all over the sky were moving, the soldiers clapped their swords and shields and roared, and in an instant, the sound of killing was like an overwhelming wave sweeping across the earth, and the sound of the waves reached the sky.
After that, Duan Jin read out the duties of the soldiers and horses of the Eight Prefectures on the high platform, the wind swept through the helmet and swayed, he held the arrow in his hand, looked at the spirit of the wolf smoke below, and there were many swords and guns.
Then, throw the arrow into the sky.
"The soldiers and horses of the states will return, and the northern expedition will be selected one day!"
His voice echoed over the heads of the crowd.
β¦β¦
In the Ding'an army array, Su Chen silently looked at the shouting sound on the high platform in the distance, and then sent Li Dao to receive the arrows, and the rest of the array, there were also generals over.
Behind him, Guan Yu looked around, stroked his beard and raised his head, a little distracted.
"Such a scene reminds Guan of the time when he crusaded against Dong......"
Zhang Fei next to him didn't answer him, but stared at the fat figure not far away, the latter was impatient, turned his face, and waved his hand, "Look at what Dong did, you begged me back then, but I couldn't see that scene." β
Ahead, Su Chen turned his horse's head back and gave an order.
"Gather the camp and prepare to pull out the camp and return to Ding'an!"
The news of pulling out the camp began to be transmitted, the desolate horn sounded in the sky, and a battalion of soldiers and horses walked out of the barracks, assembled and rectified, and Dong Zhuo took Li Dao to ride a horse and run in front of the battle.
Guan Yu stroked his beard and closed his eyes, reminded in a low voice, Zhang Fei, who was still looking at Dong Zhuo, and said in a low voice: "Third brother, don't look at it, the world here is different from the beginning, Dong Zhuo has also died once, you and I have died once, and it has long passed." β
Immediately put the brother's spiritual seat on the placket, shook the reins, clicked the horse's belly, and followed Su Chen in front, Zhang Fei looked at Dong Zhuo and snorted, and also urged the horse to gallop.
On April 18, the oath was completed, and the army left Guqiu, turned west, and returned to Rongzhou.
At this time, on the way, the fast horse was coming through the mountains and forests, and in his hand was the news of Xirong's entry.
The first to get the news was Wu Huizhi, Marquis of Yunyao, it was already the next day, seeing Xirong entering, thinking who was playing tricks on him, it can be learned from the mouth of the Lingqi who conveyed the news that a group of 3,000 Xirong people killed Yunyao, and was now rushing south to attack Ding'an, he hurriedly asked to hand over the news to the other Lingqi to send to the Xiliang army behind as quickly as possible.
Ling Qi galloped through the mountain road in front, from the side of the team lined with flags, and ran to the figure of the arched guard in the middle, Su Chen was talking to Fang Xuejun, and received the news sent by Yun Yu Lingqi, the expression on his face quickly converged, and the woman beside him seemed to feel that the man's emotions were disappearing in an instant at this moment.
"What's wrong?" She asked softly.
Su Chen casually threw the note on horseback, "No, it's just a little trouble." Then he sent someone to summon Dong Zhuo and asked: "Can the grain be used for long-distance travel?" β
"Where?" Dong Zhuo was also quite simply, "If it's not enough, borrow it from the army in front." β
"Yantang Pass."
Su Chen stroked the mane of the war horse and whispered: "Such an important place, you can't leave it to others, otherwise we will be attacked in the future." Anyway, it's all out, so it's better to fight. β
He turned his head and looked at the two figures who had come forward on horseback to catch a knife and carry a spear.
"The second master and the third master want to try to take the soldiers and horses of this world to fight?"