Chapter 146 March
(On the first day of the college entrance examination, I wish the students a great success.)
Han Ruzi always carried a box of history books by his side. He would look it up when he had time, and also look for it when he was in doubt.
In the early days of Taizu Han Fu's business, he also encountered betrayal, and there were many times, but the historical records were not detailed. Taizu seemed to be very generous and never held any resentment towards the betrayers. Some people betrayed several times, he Whether it should be used or used, it was not until the Great Ancestor established the world that he began to eliminate all those with different aspirations.
Han Ruzi was still far from success. What he wondered was what should he do in the face of Zhang Yanghao, who was almost certain to betray again? Is it to be removed as soon as possible before it happens? Or should you wait and solve it after you've made the most of it?
Han Ruzi decided to wait, anyway, he doesn't have the right to kill people casually now.
Before leading the troops to set off, Han Ruzi released Cui Teng, who had two days left in his "prison term". He and Donghai Wang went to release people together and wanted to tell Cui Teng "the truth".
The prison was a small tent with nothing but beds and toilets. For Cui Teng, it was too hard to suffer, but after Han Ruzi and Donghai King entered the tent, they saw Second Young Master Cui sitting on the bed. I was eating a roast chicken, and there was a pot of wine on the tray in front of me.
Seeing the two of them, Cui Teng was stunned for a moment, holding up the roast chicken skeleton and saying, "That's all."
The guards outside the tent are all Han Ruzi's personal minions, but the prohibited things still entered the prison. Han Ruzi was a little embarrassed, so he could only pretend not to see it and said, "You can go out, but there is one condition..."
Cui Teng threw the roast chicken on the tray, fell back, and added his fingers with interest, "Go out? I don't go out, it's fine here, no one bothers me, and when it's quiet at night, I can concentrate on my thoughts far away in the capital. Family members: My mother is not in good health, I hope my affairs will not spread to her ears; Laojun has a bad temper, I hope she will not embarrass my sister because of me..."
The King of Donghai stepped forward and said with a smile: "Stop pretending, Laojun and aunt always say that you are the least worry-free among the children and grandchildren of the Cui family. You should have gone out to experience and suffer more. I heard that you were imprisoned. I will only be grateful to Hou Wan, and maybe I will send some thanks through Xiaojun's cousin."
Cui Teng sat up suddenly, gritted his teeth and said, "Traitor."
The King of Donghai sat by the bed and put his arms around Cui Teng's shoulders, "If I were a traitor, I wouldn't come, I'll let you compete with Hou Juan, wait until he drags you out and hits forty big boards again, and then watch it again. your joke."
Cui Teng trembled in his heart, looked at Marquis Juan in doubt, and said unsurely, "He doesn't dare..."
"You saw it with your own eyes. He dared to attack the city gate and beat you? The forty boards are all light, and the most ruthless is the murder sacrifice flag. I saw it when I was in the capital."
Han Ruzi had sacrificed the flag at Hebian Village at the beginning, but he didn't kill anyone, but when the truth turned into a rumor, it was always exaggerated. One trip."
Han Ruzi shook his head, "No."
"Why not?" Cui Teng's anger came up again, "I know what you're doing, isn't it just using your own family to make others fear you? I'll cooperate with you. Honestly? They all thought that the Cui family wanted to support you to regain the throne."
Another person who came out to receive merit, Han Ruzi still shook his head, "No, and..."
Cui Teng shook off the King of the East Sea, jumped to the ground, and said loudly: "Just play, don't go too far, without the Cui family, you won't be able to be the Marquis for a long time, and you still want to be the emperor again? Dream!"
Cui Teng kept his mouth open. When talking about the rise, he pointed at the East Sea King, "It's not that the Cui family has to support you, and there is also him. It's really impossible. Our Cui family simply becomes the emperor..."
King Donghai kicked Cui Teng's ass and scolded, "I don't want to live anymore? How did my uncle tell you?"
Cui Teng was shocked again, touched his butt and whispered, "No outsiders..."
"Aren't you afraid that the walls have ears?"
"How can there be an ear? I cut it." Cui Teng giggled, and stopped mentioning the emperor's business, "Okay, give Hou Juan a face, let's go."
"Wait, there are conditions for letting you out." Han Ruzi said.
Cui Teng turned to the East Sea King and asked with a cold face, "Where did the Cui family feel sorry for him? Does he have to be so harsh to me?"
"You asked for it yourself." King Donghai said lazily. He knew Cui Teng's temper too well, so he deliberately discouraged him.
Cui Teng turned around and stared at Han Ruzi, "Sometimes we will frame each other, and then we will bully me together. Okay, you are brothers, and I am an outsider. Tell me, what are the conditions?"
"You have to commit crimes and behead at least one Huns in Iron Broken City."
"Are you really going?" Cui Teng grimaced.
"Leave early tomorrow morning."
"What if the Huns don't go to the Iron Broken City?"
"Then...even if you're lucky."
Cui Teng said with a smile: "It is said that the Huns will hide and stop fighting as soon as winter begins. Otherwise, let's go to war before winter. Go home, how about I give you two heads next year?"
Cui Teng is a rogue, and Han Ruzi can't do anything about him for the time being, so he snorted and turned away.
The King of Donghai got up and pushed Cui Teng out, "Don't say I didn't warn you: Be careful, Marquis Juan is now riding a tiger and it's hard to get down, and if you are in a hurry, you will really kill."
"Who let him ride a tiger?" Cui Teng was not convinced on the surface, but he was a little apprehensive, "I can't believe that my sister would like such a guy, why no one likes me when I'm ruthless, everyone blames me Woolen cloth?"
Han Ruzi set out with 4,000 soldiers. There were many people who came to see him off the night before. Since they could not persuade the general Han Xing to change his mind, the generals changed to please the Zhenbei general Han Ruzi. There was only one purpose, asking him to take care of his relatives. Let them take risks on the battlefield.
As before, Han Ruzi promised to take it all down and distributed the gifts to all the officers and men in his army, including the 2,000 people assigned to him by the general.
Eat before dawn, when the sun rises, the army sets out.
Mayi City is more than 800 miles away from Broken Iron City, but this is the distance on the map. There are rugged mountains and desolate Gobi in the middle. If you are marching in a hurry, you can bring more horses and bring your own dry food, and detour from the fortress, regardless of the cost. If so, it will arrive in three or four days.
The normal march is detoured from the pass. Every day's itinerary has a detailed plan. The camps and food and grass are arranged by the counties on the way. Although the walk is slow, it is very practical.
Before coming to Northern Xinjiang from the capital city, the schedule was relatively urgent. Han Ruzi and his thousand works were almost carried forward by the army, and the feeling was not deep. It was only now that he led the march for the first time, and he learned a lot along the way.
Like most people, Han Ruzi used to look down on the civil servants in the army, thinking that they could not fight, and he always picked on the mistakes of the soldiers, all of them were sinister villains.
After the march, Han Ruzi changed his opinion. In fact, during the march, he spent most of the time with the military officers, and together with them estimated countless details such as time, weather, food and grass, and camps. . No way, accidents happen almost every day, some people get sick, some people's horses die, a torrential rain delays the trip, and there is a "rebellion" on the way, all of which need to be solved by the civil servants in the army.
It was the fifth day of the march. Halfway through the journey, 4,000 people had just entered the camp and had not had time to untie their saddles to rest. The county magistrate of the county they passed hurriedly came to ask for help, saying that a group of rioters were going to attack the county town tomorrow morning. The county magistrate learned that After receiving the news, there were no soldiers in hand to defend the city, just in time for the arrival of General Zhenbei, so he sent the county captain to borrow troops.
The master book reminded Marquis Juan that without the order of the general, he could not enter any city during the march, and he could only garrison outside the city, and he could not easily borrow troops from abroad. He had to wait for the dispatch of the general or the local county governor.
The county lieutenant was so anxious that he knelt down and begged for help. Soon after dark, the county magistrate came in person and swore to God that he was willing to bear all the consequences.
Han Ruzi had already planned to send troops, and Chai Yue quietly suggested to him: continue the march, leave a small number of soldiers, branch out to the village, claiming to collect food and grass for the successor army, in order to deter the chaotic people, and then the county magistrate will normally ask the superior for help.
Han Ruzi agreed. The county magistrate and the county magistrate had no other choice but to accept it. They sent a few police officers from the city to the countryside to bluff, and then waited for the county governor to send troops.
Early the next morning, Han Ruzi led his army on the road, leaving only a hundred men and a few officers.
He kept thinking about this matter. Three days later, news came that the rioters who were going to attack the county town immediately disintegrated when they heard that the army was approaching. The leader fled, and was captured alive before they left the county.
Han Ruzi felt more and more that Chai Yue was a talent, but he didn't know how much he should trust him.
On the ninth day, the 100 soldiers who stayed behind rushed up, and the entire army arrived at Shenxiongguan on time, still living in the camp outside the city, preparing to pass through the city early the next morning.
Here, Han Ruzi welcomed several acquaintances.
The first one was the fat eunuch Cai Xinghai. He had already arrived at Shenxiongguan as a military supervisor of the North Army, and he had been doing nothing until Han Ruzi asked him to come to him.
Cai Xinghai used to be a lieutenant of the frontier army. He was sentenced to the palace for falsely reporting his head. After returning to the frontier, he was not well received. No one regarded him as a soldier.
Goodbye Hou Juan, Cai Xinghai was so excited that he knelt on the ground for a long time before he was willing to get up.
Han Ruzi immediately appointed him as Colonel Ma Jun, and finally had a trustworthy person by his side.
The second acquaintance was Du Chuanyun, he brought a few letters from the capital, and he didn't plan to go back. He wanted to go to Shattering Iron City with Hou Juan, "A good man wants to be in all directions, I told my grandfather that he is retire in the capital. , I'll go to the battlefield to see, it's interesting, just stay for a while, it's boring to talk about it."
So he stayed as a guard for Hou Juan, and swore that he would never drink again before the war ended, "But I also have to ask Hou Juan, don't leave me and run around again, it's not easy to protect you, it's even more difficult to look at you. Difficult."
Cui Xiaojun wrote a letter without much content, hoping that tired Houma will succeed, saying that everything at home is fine.
There are also two letters from Cui's family. Cui Teng's mother thanked Juan Hou for his discipline. She was very polite and didn't complain. Lao Jun was different. Hou scolded him and ordered him to return Cui Teng to the capital intact after the war was over.
Donghai King also read the letter and said to Han Ruzi: "Congratulations, Lao Jun didn't ask you to send Cui Teng back immediately, which shows that she still understands something."
The arrival of the third acquaintance was beyond Han Ruzi's expectations. Shi Yangfeng, the commander of the northern army, met with General Zhenbei on behalf of the chief of the northern army.