Volume Three, Bianliang Mistake, Chapter 205, Banquet Hongmen (42)
Baode Army City is located on the east bank of the Yellow River. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and a river on one side. It is the important place mentioned in the military books. The west bank of the Yellow River is far away from Fugu, the capital city of Fuzhou, and the river stands together. It is the core location outside the Zhejia River.
Since the defeat of the Jelan sailors, Zhe Ke asked for prisoners and courted them, and retreated to the Baode Army. He reorganized his troops and waited for the changes in the current situation.
There is naturally a choice to station troops here.
If you go west to Linzhou, you will border the territory of the Western Army. You have sold out tens of thousands of Fuyan's children in the Weishui Valley. Now when you go to that place, you are afraid that you will have something to do with the Western Army.
Moreover, the Jurchen army was also crossing the river continuously. It was west of Linzhou and east of the Jinning army, storming cities and plundering the land. It was a big news. When the war broke out at the edge of the Kelan River, Zhe Keqiu was no longer willing to touch the Jurchens like the one, so it would be better to avoid it.
Secondly, this is also the core territory of the Zhe family. It has abundant food and fodder, military resources are always reserved, and even war horses have a source of supply. It is easy to recruit children to supplement the army. It is convenient for the soldiers outside the Zhe family to recover their vitality, which is a big loss.
Taking charge of the core territory of the Zhe family and looking at the future situation, is to find out where all the current calculations are.
Because of this idea, after leading the remaining troops back to the Baode Army hurriedly, in addition to using all the Baode Army to store military resources and fodder, he also continuously recruited military horses from the prefectures and prefectures and transported various military supplies, equipment, and food and fodder to this end. He also recruited many civilians to build a defense system for the Baode Army City.
In addition to these military preparations, all powerful figures in the Zhe family in the prefecture and prefecture, who have some influence, must go to Baode Army City to listen to it.
After the crushing defeat, Chenqi was imprisoned. The Zhe family was like being independent from the battle situation in Hedong, the Song Dynasty. People's hearts were fluctuating and it was not up to be said. Zhe Keqiu wanted to take all the strength of the Zhe family into his hands to deal with the situation at this moment!
During these days, the Yellow River ships traveled endlessly on the Shagujin. Generals and horses were transported by ship, and there were often some Zhe family figures with different expressions on the ship, and they rushed to the east bank of the Yellow River with a depressed expression.
The entire Zhe family is now in such an extremely subtle atmosphere.
A official road winds through the mountains east of Baode Army City, which was the road built during the Qin Dynasty. After thousands of years of use, the road has been deeply sunk. Walking in it is like walking at the bottom of a ditch.
Between the mountains in the middle of the road, there were people like ants working and working. They were all recruited by the Han people. In addition to the Han people, there were many figures of Hu, who were also carrying soil and stones, logging wood and digging trenches.
Several military camps with roads have gradually become shaped. There are also Zhejia Ranger patrols on the roads.
The work of building a military camp was very heavy, but the food was pretty good. When it came to the meal, a fire army came winding with loads. The baskets were carrying steamed cakes in front of them, and the back was a pottery jar filled with soup. When it was closer, you could smell the aroma of meat emitted from the pottery jar. It seemed that it was meat soup.
With the orders of the soldiers of the supervisors and soldiers, these dust-covered civilians came to the front of these loads in groups, one person, four cooked cakes and a bowl of broth. They each held them carefully, found a place to sit down and started to eat and chew. A sweet swallowing sound came from the fields.
It was another heavy rain a while ago, and the ground was still a little muddy, but since I had something to eat, no one could care about sitting in the mud.
The war in Hedong suddenly arose, and everyone sees the miserable situation of refugees fleeing. Not to mention those who have not escaped and fallen into the hands of the Jurchen Tatars. Although everyone is more laborious to send them to work, at least they can have a stable meal, but they are still protecting them. What else do you have to say?
I hope God can protect the family leader and live a long life, and protect hundreds of thousands of creatures outside the river in Yongzhen!
The people had no complaints, and the miscellaneous people who were conscripted did not care about anything. However, for the generals of the Zhe family, the atmosphere was a bit strange.
During these days, the atmosphere of the Zhe family soldiers who were urging the construction workers here was very strange.
Not only do they have little words to each other, but the military generals looked depressed when they looked at each other. Even if they said something, they were just about official business. The rest of the matter often stopped when they wanted to speak.
Moreover, the military horses garrisoned here are very frequent. Often, within two or three days, they were replaced by military horses that were constantly departing from the Baode army. It seemed that the people in the throne were on guard against something.
The Zhe family's army and horses have always been called soldiers. In the past, as long as it was not the time of marching and fighting, the garrison season was very lively when it came to dinner, and the soldiers of the army did not have much class distinction. They often gathered together to have fun while eating. They looked harmonious and harmonious, and the Zhe family's children were often proud of their cohesion in the army.
But now when it comes to meals, the soldiers and generals return to each other, eating and drinking in the same place. Apart from the sound of chewing, the sound of drinking soup in Xili is not very loud. However, the people still talk and laugh from time to time. This look really makes people feel very strange.
A young military general, who is only twenty-four or twenty-five years old, has a handsome little white face. He is seven feet and five inches long, and his ape-armed and bee-waisted waist looks extremely agile. He is silently looking for a place to eat at home.
Although he was not very tall in the northwest, he was born handsome, as if he was a child of the romantic Zhu Zi of Bianliang. He looked really good. He looked for a branch and pierced twelve steamed cakes in one breath. After sitting down, he stacked four steamed cakes in a stack, took out a box of sauce from his arms and poured a little in the middle. The four steamed cakes were already dried up like a wind and the four steamed cakes had not fallen off.
The young white-faced general then made some sense and reached out to take four more pieces. Then he heard a man greeting: "Uncle Thirty-nine!"
The young man turned around and saw a military general in his forties, with a beard and beard behind him. He had a black charcoal face and covered in smoke and mud on his armor. He was saluting him.
The little white-faced looked around and waved to him to sit down: "Why are you born?"
The young man is called Zhenlun, and he is ranked 39th in the tenth generation of the Zhe family. And these forty generals called Zhe Zhirou are the eleventh generation of the Zhe family. Although he is about ten years older, it can be seen that Zhenlun has to call him uncle obediently.
Zhe Zhirou sat beside Zhenlun and snorted: "We came from Shagujin River and rushed to Baode Army City. The head and generals of the eighth master, the twenty-second uncle, and the twenty-fifth uncle all called into the city. I sent me to lead the army here to defend indirectly...... How could the Zhe family use such a reason to call soldiers? From generation to generation, who doesn't care about their children? Since we have eaten more salary for the generals, it's nothing to work harder. But the soldiers gathered together with the orders. The families in the prefectures were not safe, and they hurriedly crossed the river and were not allowed to enter the city and drove here. Since they were young, they have never seen the Zhe family use such soldiers!"
Zhe Zhirou saw that she was careless and did not care about the strange gazes of the soldiers not far away, and she casually said this long list of complaints.
As Jinlun spoke, four steamed cakes fell into his throat, and his mind became more calm. He slowly took off the last four steamed cakes. Then he glanced at Zhe Zhirou: "What's the hard work for you? It rained a few days ago. We came across the river. Don't we have to come here in the rain? Now it's not time to complain, so it's better to be more at ease."
Zhe Zhirou snorted: "Am I afraid of a bird? Isn't it just a crushing defeat? The head of the family brought 6,000 children to the war, and less than half of them came back. The news came, and there were crying in the prefecture. There were fewer people who died in the Zhe family for more than a hundred years? This battle killed the head of the family. Why did a mere defeat of a defeat? "
While he said passionately, he looked at Jinlun. This seemingly generous man was actually a little careful to see if he could tell a few words about Jinlun.
You should know that these thirty-nine uncles are the grandson of Zhejichang and the son of Zhe Kexi. They are from the direct line of the Zhe family!
He was also a young and heroic man, with a long-handled iron knife, and was known as the best young children of the Zhe family. He also had a super appetite. He had seven points of ability after eating seven points, and had twelve points of ability after eating twelve points of fullness! Although his father died prematurely, he was very favored by the elders of the Zhe family.
This time, because his elders pity his team was too thin, he forced Zhenlun to stay in the prefecture. Unexpectedly, he ran into the western mountains of the Baode Army. In terms of well-informed and well-known inside information, how could he, a child with a background in the other side, be able to compare with this thirty-nine uncle?
Zhenlun glanced at the bad-hearted nephew and said nothing. He grabbed the steamed cake and filled it into his mouth. After a few seconds, he disappeared. Finally, he drank the broth in one breath, but no amount of soup had been sprinkled out. Then he got up and patted his butt.
"It's fine if you have 50% full. Go and look for a place to sniff for a while... You can also find some food. You can be injured or die. Don't let yourself starve!"
Zhe Zhirou couldn't help but grabbed the legs of Jinlun's pants, and the sound was lowered.
"Uncle Thirty-nine, just say a few truths? Suddenly, the head of the family sent troops to Fugu, and filled the mansions of several older generations, and then sent them all to the Baode Army! Then we let our troops set off one by one, and all the older generals of higher seniority entered Baode Army City, and the other military horses were sent out by us, and the other military horses were sent out. Isn't it strange?"
He swallowed, and his black charcoal's face turned a little pale. The lowering voice also trembled.
"………I heard that the head of the family abandoned Fuyan's army in the Weishui Valley and retreated first by the Kelan River. He then lost so many children. Then he killed Uncle Twenty-six and imprisoned the deputy envoy of comforting. Uncle Thirty-nine, do you think this is true? Uncle Thirty-nine, I just want one word for you!"
Zhenlun's eyes just looked into the distance, and a little white face was as tight as iron.
After a long time, Jinlun said softly.
"If I want to win the whole family and strengthen my power, even if these things are true, I will just pinch my nose and accept it... But if the head of the family has a different mindset, I will think about attacking my own brothers and even joining the foreign race. At that time, I will have a big iron knife in my hand!
Zhe Zhirou let go of her hand, thinking in a daze.
Just as both of them were silent, a few smoke and dust were pulled up from the west, and they were sending a whistle to the east and returning!
On the west sky, twenty or thirty miles behind these whistle and cavalry, you saw a thicker smoke and dust tilt. It was obvious that a military horse was coming here!
Zhe Zhirou suddenly stood up and roared: "Good come! If the Jurchens were fighting, they would be able to fight happily and exude the bird's breath in their chests!" (To be continued...)
ps: Finally, it was updated, it was really not easy...
Chapter completed!