Chapter 25: The Strange Affair of the Strange Officer
Early the next morning, Song Yi got up to prepare breakfast for Zhang Yiliang. After the two of them ate well, they went to Cixiao to discuss with Xiao Jianli, the commander of the Leopard Army. When Zhang Yiliang was not in Luoyang, Xiao Nian and Song Yi lived in his private house, and Xiao Jianli arranged for two female guards of the Leopard Army to live together to ensure their safety.
Half of the money shipped from Xiangyang was used to open a money bank and lend usury to the playboys in Luoyang. Half of it was used to buy grain and transport it to the northwest to distribute to the affected people. Disaster relief efforts were mostly consulted with Song Yi, who promoted the matter as his plenipotentiary.
Xiao Jianli wanted to send a few masters to accompany Zhang Yiliang to the barracks, but Zhang Yiliang refused. Now is not the time, wait for him to make a name.
Everything was ready, and Zhang Yiliang said goodbye to everyone. Before leaving, Xiao Jianli gave him a gift - a sweaty and bloody horse, named Chuanlin. This horse was bought from Xiliang by the trustees, and it traveled thousands of miles a day, and it was a peerless horse. Zhang Yiliang was overjoyed and rode through the forest towards the northern camp.
In the evening, Zhang Yiliang came to Yan Zhang's military camp. Yan arranged for him to serve as a lieutenant in the archers of Captain Niuji. The so-called Wu Chang is the group leader who manages five people. The team led by the captain of the archery is the archers, and in addition to having good horse control skills, it is also required to have first-class archery.
On Yan Zhang's orders, Ichira followed Niu Ji to his camp. According to the rules of the army, when a newcomer comes, he must gather the whole battalion to introduce him. There are more than 500 people in this cavalry archer battalion, all of whom are training in the school grounds, and when Niu Arm introduced Zhang Yiliang, he insinuated, saying that he came in by General Yan, and everyone should take care of them when he peed his pants on the battlefield in the future......
Niu Arm has a very bad training rule, that is, beating and scolding soldiers. He also created a horrific set of punishment for military training. Among them, the most perverted are caning, target punishment, and frame punishment.
According to Niu Jian's introduction, the whipping is to strip off their pants in public, whip their buttocks, and determine the number of lashes according to the situation; the target punishment is even more terrifying, and the soldiers who anger the commander during the training are tied to the arrow target and let the commander shoot it, and some soldiers are often shot to death.
The most disgusting thing was the torture. When Niu Jian saw that the handsome, fair-skinned soldier had made a mistake in training, he was to be executed by hanging. He took the tortured man into his barracks, stripped naked and tied to a wooden frame, and let him vent his bestial nature.
Seeing a fair-skinned young man like Zhang Yiliang with a handsome face, that bull's arm was already a bit of a thief. saw that Zhang Yiliang had a good BMW, so he secretly decided to take care of this boy.
introduced Zhang Yiliang and explained his Niu military regulations. Niu Arm picked five thin soldiers, and Zhang Yiliang was the commander of several of them. On a whim, it was decided to hold a competition. Let Zhang Yiliang be a team, and pick another team to compare with each other.
Zhang Yiliang's riding skills are acceptable, where is archery. The two teams played each other and lost miserably. The bull arm came over to reprimand Zhang Yiliang's team, saying that the captain would accept punishment. Racking.
I'll go, do you know what it is? Zhang Yiliang thought to himself. If you dare to touch Lao Tzu, you will die in minutes so that your parents can't recognize you.
Zhang Yiliang was dragged into the camp tent by the guards of the bull arm, he was not in a hurry at all, let them get in, and when he saw the torture rack, he saw what was strange. The torture frame was shaped like a Z, and the upper and lower sets of horizontal logs were used to tie hands and feet. The upper set of bars was supported by a cotton cloth, stripped the soldiers naked, pressed their upper bodies against the cloth, and made a hole in their faces to allow the punished to breathe.
This invention should be awarded to him the most disgusting invention in the universe, right?
The guards pressed Zhang Yiliang on the shelf, ready to take off his clothes forcibly, Zhang Yiliang had to use his kung fu, and kicked the guards out of the tent with a unicorn sweep. Seeing this, Niu Jian immediately picked up his bow and arrow and wanted to shoot Zhang Yiliang, but Zhang Yiliang urgently pulled out the fire gun on his waist. Syllable...... With a bang, the cow arm was killed on the spot.
After killing the bull's arm, Zhang Yiliang rushed out of the tent, holding a firecracker, and fired a machine gun at a target thirty meters away, all of which hit the bull's-eye. No one dared to approach. Yan Zhang sent someone to investigate the matter, and Zhang Yiliang explained it clearly in 1510. Such a person is not worthy of leading the army, nor is he worthy of living. When the pickets checked, they found that more than 60 of the 500 men of the cavalry archers had been tortured by bull arms.
The whole army was in an uproar. Yan Zhang was forced to rectify military discipline, Zhang Yiliang's new boss was a man named Li Qi, who was promoted from the crossbow barracks, he was restrained, honest, treated soldiers more kindly, was good at bows and crossbows, and was also first-class in riding and archery.
On May 16, Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty died as scheduled. Zhang Hua, Xiao Changlin of Langya Sect, and the Lu brothers in Jiangnan all remembered that Zhang Yiliang had said that Emperor Wu of Jin died on May 16, and they were secretly surprised. Despite this, everyone was also skeptical, only Xiao Changlin, the sect leader of Langya, took it seriously and secretly decided to entrust Zhang Yiliang with a heavy responsibility.
The emperor hung the ball, and in order to let the government and the opposition know his love for Emperor Wu, Taiwei Yang Jun ordered the whole country to mourn for three months, and the army also held a mourning ceremony to avoid war for three months. Zhang Yiliang proposed to Yan Zhang that each battalion should Dai Xiao inspect the frontier, but Yan Zhang said that the Hu people in the north knew that Emperor Wu had died, and they would not disturb it out of courtesy.
Etiquette? Ridiculous, a flock of sheep and wolves talk about etiquette? Zhang Yiliang thought.
Sure enough, something big happened the night after Emperor Wu died. A tribe called Wulu in Xianbei, under the leadership of the young king of Wulu, gathered more than 8,000 people and drove straight in, slaughtered more than a dozen villages and towns, and abducted the Southern Xiongnu delegation who came to mourn in a small town called Pingyang, and took away all the items used for sacrifice.
Is it tolerable or intolerable?
Yan Zhang went to Beijing to discuss with Yang Jun and the crown prince, and decided to send troops to exterminate this Xianbei Wulu army. According to the plan, Yan Zhang divided the Beida battalion into three parts, with 10,000 people staying in the base camp, and the remaining 20,000 people going north to look for the enemy and annihilate the enemy. The Left Route Army was led by Yan Zhang's lieutenant general Zhao Mi, and Zhang Yiliang's archers were assigned to Zhao Mi's Left Route Army. The right army was led by Yan Zhang himself, mainly heavy cavalry.
The Left Route Army went out of the Tiger Pass due north and pursued north along the border between the Xiongnu and the Jin Dynasty. The right army pursued in the opposite direction along the route of the sneak attack of the Xianbei Ulu army. At this time, no one knew which direction the more than 8,000 people of the Xianbei Ulu tribe were going. However, the nest of the Ulu tribe is in the Leling area west of Youbeiping, and Yan Zhang's chances of winning the jackpot are greater.
Before leaving, Yan Zhang told Zhao Mi that Zhang Yiliang could not go out on a mission alone, and he must stay in front of the account to listen to orders. The team traveled dozens of miles, and Zhang Yiliang asked to lead a small team to investigate the intelligence first, but Zhao Mi naturally did not allow it.
The Left Route Army marched more than 100 miles, crossed the border between the Jin Dynasty and the Xiongnu, and entered the buffer zone of the Xiongnu territory and the Xianbei territory. Zhao Mi ordered to camp and rest.
A miscellaneous army of 10,000 horsemen camped on the grass without barriers? Zhang Yiliang was very puzzled, and went to Zhao Mi many times, and made a strong statement. This army has less than 2,000 cavalry, most of them are the traditional infantry of the Jin Dynasty, and on this grassland, two or three thousand cavalry will come to the end of the raid. Zhao Mi disagreed.
Zhang Yiliang went again and again to persuade him to leave quickly, which made Zhao Mi very annoyed. In the end, Zhang Yiliang asked him for a team of 30 people to patrol outside the camp. Zhao Mi marched for a few days, he was already exhausted, Zhang Yiliang was arguing in his ear like a crow, in order to be quiet, he asked him to pick thirty archers and let him go.
Among the thirty cavalry selected by Zhang Yiliang, there were those who had been ruined by the bull's arm and later performed outstandingly. These people have been humiliated, shameful and courageous, and their hatred can be released. Of course, a group of good horse elite soldiers were also selected, and there were more than a dozen strong men who were good at running and slashing. A group of thirty-one people quietly went to the northwest.
The soldiers were puzzled, the Left Route Army had no hope of killing the enemy, and if they looked for it in the northeast at this time, it would still be possible to grab a piece of the pie, and what did it mean to go to the northwest? Zhang Yiliang did not think so, he thought that this direction was very likely to meet the enemy, and the reason was very simple: The northwest was the junction of the Xiongnu and Xianbei, and the rats liked to walk along the corners of the wall, because they did not dare to take the big road blatantly. There are many Xianbei tribes, and they attack each other seriously, and the Xianbei Ulu tribe has robbed so much property, so it is natural to avoid the Xianbei hinterland with many people.
Zhang Yiliang didn't know that after his small detachment left the main army, the Kahu tribe, another powerful tribe in Xianbei, heard that the Jin army had entered, and whether it was for revenge or tourism, they gathered more than 10,000 Xianbei cavalry and quietly surrounded the grassland.
This reconnaissance team ran wildly along the border between the Xiongnu and Xianbei for dozens of miles, and saw a small river in front of them, the sky was already dark and oppressive, and only saw the surface of the river glowing, and the team continued to look north along the river. In the great meadows and the great deserts, when you see a river or a small lake, you see hope......
More than ten miles further forward for the troops, the small river went to a low-lying place, and from a distance, Zhang Yiliang vaguely saw some tents, so he stopped and sent two people to investigate the situation. He led his team around the tents and hid on a hill to soothe the horses, and the whole army was silent. As long as it is confirmed that it is a Xianbei person, it will be killed from a high position.
Not long after, the investigators came to report that this was a tent temporarily set up by the Xianbei people, and there was a lot of property. However, there were as many as three or five hundred enemies stationed.
Have the Xianbei people slept peacefully? Zhang Yiliang asked.
They were still drinking wine and roasting lamb, as if they were receiving VIPs.
God help me. Greet everyone, rest on the spot for two hours, and attack when you are ugly. Zhang Yiliang ordered.
We're thirty of us, how do we attack?" one soldier asked.
Shoot the Xianbei soldiers guarding first, and then rush over and kill anyone you see. Zhang Yiliang closed his eyes and recuperated as he spoke.
The hour was approaching, and most of the lights in the Xianbei camp were extinguished, except for a few braziers on the periphery, and some night watchmen wandered beside them. Thirty-one people mounted their horses and were ready.
Zhang Yiliang let out a low shout, only to see the horse's hooves clattering, the arrows and crossbows whizzing, and the more than 30 horsemen did not pay attention to any tactics and tactics. Most of the Xianbei people drank wine, and they were still asleep, when they heard the shouting that shook the sky, thinking that the army was coming, they hurriedly dressed, some of them responded to the battle, and some of them went out of the camp to flee for their lives.
Thirty-one horsemen were strung up and down in dozens of tents, and some came out of the tents and cut them down. Several Xianbei people lit torches, and after being cut down, the torches lit the tent, and the flames burst into flames in an instant, and the scene became even more chaotic. The squad went to the big camp tent in the middle, and more than a dozen Xianbei soldiers rushed out of it, but they didn't have time to find horses, so they could only resist with scimitars, where to resist.
And when they cut it down indiscriminately, the curtains of the tent were cut down. Zhang Yiliang rode a horse and rushed into the big tent, several Xianbei soldiers surrounded him, and solved two or three people with a knife, but one Xianbei soldier grabbed Zhang Yiliang's knife with his hand and did not let go. Zhang Yiliang didn't rob him, took out the fire gun and dudu a few times, and all the Xianbei soldiers in it were wiped out. Then he saw seven or eight old men, and the fire was aimed at them, but they all fell to their knees and begged for mercy.
The battle ended quickly, and Zhang Yiliang ordered someone to count the battlefield. The Xianbei people were hacked to death and 100 seriously wounded. In his squad, two were killed and six were seriously wounded.
After the first interrogation, I learned that the old men captured by Zhang Yiliang from the big tent were the ministers of the Xianbei Ulu Tribe, the elders and the virtuous kings. These old men had a long-standing friendship with the Kahu tribe, and happened to pass through the territory of the Kahu tribe, so they broke away from the main army and stopped here to invite the elders of the Kahu tribe to come and catch up. It's just time to serve a pot.
In which direction did the King of Wulu go? Zhang Yiliang asked.
The arrogant king of the Ulu did not listen to our persuasion and entered the territory of the Huns. An old man said.
Zhang Yiliang thought that there were only a few thousand people in the king of Wulu, and he would definitely not dare to go deep into the hinterland of the Xiongnu, and he would definitely wander around the border. So go back and bring the big army over to clean them up. Ordered the squad to replenish supplies on the spot, and escorted these old men back to resume their lives.
What about the wounded Xianbei captives?" the soldiers asked.
Gather all the tents, wood and other combustible things together and burn them, not far from the Xiongnu, who saw that they would come and take prisoners.
A group of thirty people went back with seven or eight Xianbei people. If there was a cavalry of two or three thousand people at this time, Lao Tzu would dare to eat the eight thousand Xianbei people. Zhang Yiliang thought to himself.
Before he could return to the camp, he saw the smoke rising from a distance, and the Kahu tribe had already begun to attack Zhao Mi's camp. Zhang Yiliang learned about this Xianbei cavalry from the elders of the Kahu tribe, with more than 10,000 people, and the commander was officially his nephew. The old Kahu tribe was willing to mediate, but he demanded the release of the old men of the Ulu tribe.
Where can Zhang Yiliang get from him, he decided to be hard, thinking: Since you can mediate, then your identity is always unusual, so I bother you to be a hostage all the time.
So Zhang Yiliang used a firearm against the elders of the Kahu tribe and entered the Nagahu military camp. Once again, do this risky and boring hostage-taking gameplay. The two Xianbei guards tried to intercept it, but Zhang Yiliang knocked it down with two shots, and the Karma soldiers no longer dared to act rashly. I had to take him into the barracks and find their commander, Ashu.
Since he has a stunt, Zhang Yiliang's courage is boundless. The commander of the Kahu army, Ah Shu, secretly admired Zhang Yiliang, he had done such a thing of breaking into the enemy position alone, and he knew how much courage it took to make such a decision.
Ah Shu was sitting in the tent, reading a bamboo book in his hand. He was a young man in his twenties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was wearing a right-hand beard suit. Asked: What position does a strong man have in the Jin army?
Captain of the Archers. Zhang Yiliang replied.
When Ah Shu heard this, he put down the book in his hand, leaned forward, and looked at Zhang Yiliang in disbelief: What is your position?
Captain Wu. Zhang Yiliang said.
How dare a captain have the audacity to break into my camp alone?
I'm not alone, I've got your uncle in my hands.
This king has more than a dozen uncles, do you want to call them all to you as hostages?
If you want to work hard, everyone in this account will have to die, including you. Zhang Yiliang said, looking at the fire gun in his hand.
Ah Shu, don't act rashly, the things in his hands can kill five or six people at the same time. The old Karmahu said.
That Ah Shu had never seen the fire gun, so he was very curious and asked, "What is in your hand?"
Firecracker. It was with this artifact that I led 30 people to destroy more than 300 Ulu troops, do you want to try it?
There is such a thing. Na Ah Shu sighed.
Tell your team to stop attacking and get out of the way for us to evacuate. Zhang Yiliang said.
Ah Shu stood up, walked to Zhang Yiliang's side, and looked at the fire. Said: Joke. I am humble territory, can you come and leave as soon as you want?
We are offended for a reason. The Ulu army had no morality, entered the country to kill during our national funeral, and hijacked the mourning procession. What would you do if your father died and they attacked your Kahu as well?
That can't be, my dad has been dead for years. If the Ulu attack my tribe and flee into the territory of your Jin kingdom, and my army enters to pursue me, what will you do?
If so, I don't need you to do anything, and I'll take them and give them to you.
Hahaha...... is such a hero, but only being a military commander, it is really condescending. Come to my Kahu, how about I let you be my virtuous king?"
You're a good guy too, I'll make you a friend. Zhang Yiliang said that he already had a number in his heart, let go of the Karma old man in his hand, and accepted his firecracker.
Someone! Na Shu shouted, and two soldiers entered.
Ah Shu ordered: Pass on the order of our army, stop the attack, and tell Zanting, who is blocking in the south, to give way to the road, let the Jin army withdraw, and not intercept it.
Yes! The soldier took the order.
Xianbei has been divided into dozens of tribes since Kebineng was assassinated by Han Long's heroes, and talents have been in a stage of lack of talent for decades. There are not many people like Ah Shu who are young and have been polished by war, and there are a lot of young and frivolous people like the king of Nawulu.
Ah Shu not only let go of the Jin army, but also entertained Zhang Yiliang with good wine and food. The two hated each other late, cherished each other, drank for a few hours, chatted for a few hours, and then said goodbye to each other.
Before the negotiations, Ashu's cavalry had completed several rounds of cavalry charges, and the left army commanded by Zhao Mi had more than 3,000 killed and more than 1,000 wounded, and withdrew from the grassland first. Zhang Yiliang rode his way through the forest and didn't catch up with the team until late.
Fortunately, the team captured a group of big people from the Xianbei Ulu Department and handed them over to the capital, so that the merits were offset and Zhao Mi was spared punishment. Yan Zhang learned that Zhang Yiliang led thirty people to kill hundreds of Xianbei people, and he was so shocked that he almost fell out of bed. When he returned to Beidaying, he immediately called Zhang Yiliang to Luoyang to meet Yang Jun.
When the news reached Zhang Hua's ears, he didn't believe it, and it wasn't until he met Yan Zhang in person that he trembled with excitement. I thought that when I gave the child this name, I hoped that the ancestor Zhang Liang would protect him and God would favor him, and this child really had the courage to be a general, so he killed sheep and pigs every day to worship. People thought he was worshipping Emperor Wu Sima Yan, but they couldn't see his sad appearance, but smiled and walked lightly.
Soon, Zhang Yiliang led 30 cavalry to annihilate 300 Xianbei people, and the news of capturing the minister of the Xianbei tribe reached Jia Nanfeng, who was also secretly surprised, and asked the prince to order Zhang Yiliang to be summoned and try to pull Zhang Yiliang into his camp.
When Jia Nanfeng saw Zhang Yiliang, he thought he was a fierce veteran, but he didn't want to be a young talent. got up from her soft sofa, helped Zhang Yiliang to look at the front and back for a long time, and said: Since ancient times, heroes have been teenagers. I heard that General Zhang led 30 people and wiped out 300 Xianbei people, thinking that the general was not a three-headed and six-armed man, but also a fierce and invincible man, and I never imagined that he was a young talent. You avenged the first emperor and earned face for the court, what should I reward you?
Where has Zhang Yiliang seen such an ugly girl, and he has long been unhappy in his heart. But he had to get along with Jananfeng, because his job was to get close to this man. I had to go against my heart: I don't need a reward in the future, the princess knows the righteousness, and she should know that there are still thousands of people in the Xianbei Ulu tribe wandering in Monan, and I am willing to lead a thousand people to pursue and annihilate this thief for the princess.
It's rare that you think about the palace, how many people you want, you can choose from the two camps in the north and south of Luoyang. You can build a flexible and mobile team, and you don't have to listen to Captain Yang for everything. Jia Nanfeng pulled Zhang Yiliang onto her soft sofa, sat next to Zhang Yiliang, patted his leg and said.
I hope to build a tiger army for the imperial court, and look forward to the crown princess. Zhang Yiliang said.
Tiger Army, Tiger Army...... Excellent, excellent! Jia Nanfeng praised several times and said: I will immediately report to the emperor and appoint you as the captain of the tiger army, and I will build a tiger army.
Thank you to the crown princess, the end will be like a liver and brain...... Zhang Yiliang saluted Jia Nanfeng and said.
Zhang Yiliang was rewarded as the captain of the Tiger Ben, and the establishment of the Tiger Ben Army was proposed by the prince. Yang Jun disagreed with this very much, and he was red-faced in the court. Zhang Hua and Wei Qian fought the basis of reason, the Xianbei Wulu army had not been completely annihilated, the revenge of the first emperor had not been avenged, and Yang Jun's henchmen did not dare to object, and finally issued a holy decree, and Zhang Yiliang was awarded the title of Captain of Huben.