Chapter 22: Returning to the Heart
"Captain, this time you have completed the task of the general, you may be about to become a general. A guard beside Shi Dong who obviously looked white said with a smile that this person was sent by Shi Le to spy on Shi Dong, so he didn't care about Shi Dong's identity.
"I will definitely do my best to fulfill the general's orders. Shi Dong said respectfully, in fact, he was a little worried that Shi Le would kill people in order to keep the secret, but this guard saw Shi Dong's scruples.
"The general will not treat meritorious people badly, you are a person he is very optimistic about. Shi Dong heard that the other party directly broke it, and he was overjoyed, so it seems that Shi Le will not kill himself, he has a family, the old and the young, how can he be willing to die.
"Then what should they do? The general is far away in Shouchun, and there are no soldiers and horses directly in the vicinity, otherwise I will go to a few tribal leaders for help, and give them to me before borrowing troops, and I will besiege and kill them all. Shi Dong pointed to the Iron Blood Army and said confidently, although he didn't encounter any danger, the taste of being chased and killed was definitely uncomfortable.
"Don't move, Taihang Mountain is the bottom line of tolerance for the Huns, our people can't enter, you don't need to worry about the rest of the matter, let's go back, your concubine just gave birth to a son the day before yesterday, you haven't seen it yet." Shi Dong was terrified when he heard this, his family's every move must have been monitored, and his fear of Shi Le was buried in the deepest part of his heart.
Chu Yun didn't know about these twists and turns, he immediately swept away the things in the camp, and when he returned to Taihang Mountain overnight, the next day, the people of Wang Hu Town came out tremblingly, and all they saw was the burning camp and the disgusting smell of burning.
When Chu Yun went back, Wang Lian, Zhang Tong, Fu Yi and others knew what Chu Yun had done, he really attacked Shi Le's transport team, and he won, although he also killed and injured two or three hundred people, but in the comparison of the harvest, these casualties are almost negligible, the most valuable thing in troubled times is people, but the most worthless people in troubled times are also people.
This time, Chu Yun not only brought back 700 people (200 prisoners, 500 surrenders) of the regular army of the original Great Jin Dynasty, but also 1,100 good horses, as well as a lot of some grain and a small part of weapons and armor, as well as nearly fifty ox carts, although they mainly transported horses, but also transported more than 100 armor and some bows and arrows. It's not much, but it's exciting.
Chu Yun could see the unhappiness of his strategists, although Chu Yun had gained a lot from this move, he didn't discuss it with them at all, which made them feel that they had been excluded from the core, how could they be happy. Fu Yi claimed to be Chu Yun's most confidant, and Wang Lian and Zhang Tong thought very highly of themselves, so after Chu Yun ordered everyone to have a big meal, he took these individuals back to his house.
"Young master, I don't know how to offend the young master, let the young master be so estranged, I am ashamed of the master's entrustment, how can I have the face to see the master after I die, I not only can't help, but. As soon as Fu Yi entered the house, he cried like an aggrieved puppy, Chu Yun felt a little unhappy, but he still hurriedly comforted him.
The more this is the case, the more sad Fu Yi becomes, this Fu Yi believes that he is a cronie of his father, and often finds something unpleasant for himself, the most typical is that he does not respect his own orders, and releases the head of the Fang family back, although afterwards he also feels that Fu Yi's idea is right, he can't ruin his reputation because of the Fang family, but disobedience and disrespect make Chu Yun's sense of dealing with righteousness drop to the freezing point. Even if you know that I'm wrong, can't you tell me first? Do you have to show a selfless appearance and embarrass yourself? This is also the reason why Chu Yun is alienated from Fu Yi now, but now Fu Yi not only doesn't look for his own reasons, but also keeps mentioning his cheap father in front of him, Chu Yun is even more uncomfortable in his heart.
Chu Yun's face was already ugly, Fu Yi had been crying for a quarter of an hour, he had said all his good words, this person refused to get up, if Chu Yun didn't know what happened to Fu Yi, then Chu Yun would immediately become the commander of the light pole, because it was not even good for the old people in his own family, how could others trust. Chu Yun's face turned pale, although he was still constantly comforting, but those who knew Chu Yun's character knew that Chu Yun had reached a critical point.
"Ziyi (Fu Yi's word) has just finished doing big things now, and there are still many things to do in the follow-up, one wrong step may lead to a great situation, as an old man of the Chu family, why do you not know the importance of it? Zhang Tong has not been in the company for a long time, and he doesn't want to offend Fu Yi directly, but Wang Lian dares, not to mention his family situation, his status is a proper number two person, and he controls the logistics of the iron-blooded army. And he is a few years older than Fu Yi, even according to his age, it is no problem, so as soon as he finished speaking, Fu Yi slowly calmed down. He raised his head and stole a glance at Chu Yun, his young master's face was pale, his retainer for so many years was not in vain, and he immediately knew that he had done it, so he stepped aside and stopped crying.
Chu Yun glanced at Wang Lian gratefully, this Fu Yi really couldn't be beaten, scolded couldn't be scolded, which made Chu Yun annoyed, but fortunately, Wang Lian suppressed it.
"Uncle Fu, look at you like this, if your father is still alive, he must think that I am bullying you, go back and wash up." Chu Yun branched Fu Yi, and the people of this era of Wei and Jin still pay a lot of attention to their appearance, especially Fu Yi is not a slave in the first place, and his cheap father has always regarded him as a brother.
Fu Yi left, Chu Yun breathed a sigh of relief, only Chu Yun, Wang Lian and Zhang Tong were left in the room, Chu Yun spoke first, and told the two of them what he thought at that time without reservation, and the two people who claimed to be strategists felt better. According to Chu Yun's meaning, if they really told the two people before the incident, they would definitely stop it, on the one hand, they didn't believe that Chu Yun could defeat a thousand regular troops with two thousand rabble, and second, they felt that they would have endless trouble if they offended Shi Le. But now that Chu Yun has done it, they will find a way to solve this matter and will not complain anymore.
"My lord, there must be a conspiracy in this matter, after listening to your description, although our army is very heroic under your command, but I will tell you the truth, after all, our army has not experienced the military formation, there are still many shortcomings, if they work together, our army will inevitably fail, but the current situation is indeed that the people on the opposite side do not have a little sense of unity, but everywhere reveals weirdness. Whether it is the anomaly that the leader of the other party lives outside the camp, or they encounter the enemy army attacking the camp and do not rescue, and in the end, they attack rashly when there are 1,000 people left in the camp, and finally surrender despite the strength of the battle, there is weirdness everywhere. After Wang Lian finished speaking, Zhang Tong answered.
"Yes, if the first strangeness spoken by the princes can be explained by their carelessness and greed for pleasure. The third strange point is explained that Liu Bi is worried that Shi Le will deal with him, but the second strange point cannot be explained, that is, no matter how arrogant the other party is, it is impossible not to ask for help, but instead sent someone to break through and give Liu Bi instructions to be on standby, which is also too strange. The result is a death and an escape, it is said that the dead is the nephew of the rebellious thief Zhang Bin, Zhang Bin is said to be very valued by the thief Shile, no matter how his nephew should not die here in such a child's play, so there must be something strange in this. Zhang Tong said affirmatively.
"No matter how he died, he died, it didn't matter much to us, even if they wanted to trouble us, they had to withdraw their troops from the south, which could not be done in a moment. I think there are two things that need to be decided early. The first thing is where our future is, and the second thing is what do you think of Liu Bi, I also told you about his conditions, and you have also met people, what do you think of him?"
"Lord, I think the lord has already made up his mind a long time ago, and I completely obey the lord's decision. When Chu Yun heard Wang Lian say this, he didn't ask any more, this Wang Lian was not good at strategy, Chu Yun looked at Zhang Tong.
"Lord, I think we must leave this place, otherwise there are Xiongnu in the east and Shile in the west, and after Shile returns to Yizhou, we will not be able to leave, so I propose to evacuate this place as soon as possible. As for where to go, we'll talk about it later. The second problem is the top priority, no matter what you do, you must first solve the problem of uneven orders, Liu Bi is a deep thinker, and he can't see this person's thoughts at all. However, looking at what he did, it can be seen that this person has a good ability to command troops, and he is worthy of being behind the gate. And he is decisive, if he can be subdued, he must be the right-hand man of the lord. But if he can't be subdued, there is endless support, and the more than 400 people he controls, once there is a problem, then in a hurry, it is not impossible for my iron-blooded army to disappear. So I think that the first thing is to have them surrender their horses, and then move out of the main fort, and then to camp somewhere else, and then, after a month, whether he submits or not, we must achieve our purpose. If the other party surrenders, everything is easy to say, if he does not surrender, then we can completely buy the people around him, and when the time comes, these people will never be able to escape from our palms. Zhang Tong said with a smile.
Chu Yun was a little speechless, although Zhang Tong has some schemes, but there are always some things that can't get on the table, if he really does what he says, Liu Bi will definitely not have the same heart with himself, this may also be caused by Zhang Tong has always been just an account room and does not have much foresight. This person is a bit like Jia Xu, who gives people all the desperate tricks, but he doesn't pay much attention to it. But even so, Chu Yun still values Zhang Tong very much, and I have to say that there are too few people under Chu Yun. Besides, Zhang Tong's attention many times is indeed very effective.
Chu Yun was ready to act according to his original plan, no one asked, there were thousands of good horses, dozens of ox carts, Chu Yun felt that he could completely make his own migration. Jinyang is hundreds of miles away from where he is, and he thinks about the fact that the army in the future is worse than his own conditions, and people can walk 25,000 miles with two legs, what do they have to complain about.
The second question is that Chu Yun is ready to learn from the ancients to gain the loyalty of the descendants in good faith, so that even if Liu Bi wants to leave, his subordinates will not follow.
Chu Yun ordered that all the soldiers of the Iron Blood Army must take turns to practice horsemanship, and deliberately placed the training site in the original fortress of the Zhang family, which was not far from the main fort. Then he ordered all the women to sew straw sandals and cloth bags to prepare for the future migration, of course, these Chu Yun did not tell anyone.
Chu Yun ordered that except for Fang Dashan's lieutenant stationed in the main fort, the rest of the lieutenants and Liu Bi's four hundred people were all trained together. Now the number of the Iron Blood Army is about the same as before, it is still divided into twenty teams and one escort team, a total of about 2,500 people, of course, those dead and wounded are added later. Coupled with Liu Bi's more than 400 people, Chu Yun's command reached 3,000 people, these are all troops who have seen blood, and Chu Yun has high hopes.
Chu Yun treated everyone equally, and trained Liu Bi's subordinates with the Iron Blood Army, at first Liu Bi's people didn't think so, thinking that they were regular troops and looked down on the Iron Blood Army, but when they trained, they all knew that they were very wrong. The people under Chu Yun almost practiced once a day, which was much more intense than the few days of training in these regular armies. And during the training, Chu Yun also explained the tactics to them, for example, this time, Chu Yun took out the tactics and asked everyone to discuss, even if Chu Yun's tactics were wrong, Chu Yun would not be angry. In the afternoon, Chu Yun also taught them to read and write, and just one day's knowledge made Liu Bi and the others full of curiosity about the Iron Blood Army.
Moreover, although Liu Bi's subordinates were not reorganized, Chu Yun still granted them the order of the four queues, which were just relatively low queues. At the end of the day's training, all the lieutenants were gathered together, and Liu Bi and the four lieutenants under him didn't know what was going on, so they stepped forward.
It turned out that this was a new regulation of Chu Yun, because the training was very tiring, so it was not stipulated that the escort team would be escorted, but it would be decided by drawing lots, of course, this was only a temporary regulation, but it was still valued by every captain, after all, Chu Yun brought them food and drink, brought them hope, and everyone wanted to do their part for Chu Yun, which was also the most simple wish.
In the end, Liu Zhi's twenty-third team drew a place, this Liu Zhi was the person called Uncle Liu by Liu Bi, he was very frightened, because he had never heard of the army as the escort, he doubted that Chu Yun did not have any conspiracy, of course there was a conspiracy, because looking at more than 20 sticks, in fact, they were all written from the 21st team to the 24th team, that is to say, they were all Liu Bi's people. Liu Zhi told Liu Bi about the matter, even Liu Bi couldn't figure it out, he personally took Uncle Liu to ask Chu Yun to resign, but he was scolded by Chu Yun.
"Liu Zhi, your twenty-third team is also one of us, don't you want to contribute to the big guys? I don't know why, Chu Yun obviously scolded him, but Liu Zhi had a warm current flowing through his heart. Liu Zhi doesn't understand, this is what it feels like to be trusted.
Of course, Liu Bi didn't have any intention of rebelling, he just repeatedly told Liu Zhi to patrol the night, and then rested, although he was also appointed as a lieutenant, but at night, he was not summoned and was not allowed to stay outside at will.
This night seemed to be quiet, but in fact, there were several people who didn't sleep well, the first one was Chu Yun, who was guarded by Liu Zhijiao, although he was very angry in front of outsiders, but after all, they were newly surrendered, and it was strange that Chu Yun could fall asleep. The rest of the people are Fu Yi, Zhou Bin, Guo Shuzi, Guo Yong and a few other lieutenants and lieutenants who have real power, they all know Chu Yun's plan, and they are also afraid that Liu Bi will rebel, so they all slept with the soldiers, and if something happened, they got up immediately, so these people almost didn't sleep last night.
The next morning, although Chu Yun was a little sleepy, he was very happy in his heart, because after last night, I believe that these surrendering troops will change greatly, and sure enough, as soon as Chu Yun walked out of the house, he saw Liu Zhi and twenty or thirty surrendered troops, all of them knelt on one knee and saluted Chu Yun meticulously, looking at these surrendered troops with excited faces, Chu Yun knew that if he was given a little time, these people would integrate into the iron-blooded army.
Chu Yun personally helped them up, and then arranged for the seventh team to replace the twenty-third team of guards, and everyone was ready to eat. While Chu Yun was eating, he listened to the people of Team 23 boast to the rest of his partners about how much he valued them, and Chu Yun was secretly happy in his heart.
Liu Bi sat quietly beside Chu Yun and ate, he was not a stupid person, he instantly understood Chu Yun's thoughts, and he had a sense of awe for Chu Yun, a young leader who was much younger than himself.
"Yunfei, try this, although these wild vegetables are a little bitter, but I ate them for a few months, and I can only survive because of them. Moreover, these bitter herbs are a good Chinese medicine for heat and pain. Chu Yun sandwiched some wild vegetables for the uncertain Liu Bi.
"Governor, I, Liu Bi, request to completely surrender to the Iron Blood Army and let the Governor integrate. Suddenly, Liu Bi knelt on one knee, and Chu Yun pulled him up with joy in his heart.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I announce that Liu Bi has been promoted to the rank of Captain of Yangwu, second only to me. Chu Yun didn't say yes or no, but his appointment undoubtedly recognized Liu Bi's status.
Just when Chu Yun finally resolved the internal division, in a room in Yuzhou, an old man with white hair was eating, he was eating delicious food that was difficult for ordinary people to taste, but his mind was not on the body of the meal, he frowned, as if he was thinking about something.
This person is Shi Le's most important adviser Zhang Bin, a few days ago he always felt that something had happened, which made him uneasy, he thought that his master Shi Le was going to have something big, so he was constantly analyzing and scrutinizing. Shile's strategy of Yuzhou was very unsmooth, the sky rained heavily, the Han army descended to the starvation epidemic, most of the dead, Jin sent the Yangwei general Ji Zhandu to lead the army to gather in Shouchun, the military situation was urgent.
Even he, a self-proclaimed first-class adviser of Zhang Liang, had nothing to do, this Zhang Bin often said to his brother when he was young: "I say that I can't get the ovary after wisdom, but I don't meet Gao Zu'er" means that his strategy is not inferior to Zhang Liang, but he just didn't meet Liu Bang.
Suddenly, the door of his room was opened, and a young man knelt in front of Zhang Bin crying: "Uncle, Brother Cheng is dead, you must avenge him." After listening to this, Zhang Bin closed his eyes painfully, it turned out that he had felt something in his heart these days for this reason, remembering that there were not many children in his Zhang family, and remembering the scene when Zhang Cheng was playing around him when he was a child, Zhang Bin put down the bowl heavily and walked towards the door.