And in Dulingyuan, more than ten miles away, Fanchuan, named after Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, was named the hero Fankuai food town; now it is also the place where Gyeonggi famous places and Buddhist monasteries gather; a targeted sweeping battle is also just ended.
Just in the "Fanchuan Eight Great Temples" ranked first place, one of the ancestral courts of the eight Buddhist sects of Xiangzong (also known as Weishizong and Ci'enzong), in the Huguo Xingjiao Temple where Master Xuanzang buried his bones, the famous Great Temple To the side of the pagoda.
Just smoked and killed the last batch of enemies in the tower; the left-wing guerrilla captain Zhou Ben was also sitting on a corpse, eating a can of stewed and crispy jicama sirloin; it seemed that he was not affected by the surroundings at all. The smell of roasted meat affects the invigoration as well.
In his other hand, there is a big rice ball that is tightly kneaded, with many chopped pickled melons and vinegar celery in it, and the top is drenched with thick soup soaked in the can, a few mouthfuls It was gnawed away in half.
Compared with the four types of military food standards, the most common rations include compressed biscuits, fried noodles, fried rice, and fried noodles; Zhou Ben, who was born in Huainan and Lujiang, in fact, prefers rice-based food.
Especially the steamed hot rice dumplings with lots of oil residue, miscellaneous beans and salted vegetables; even if it’s cold and eaten the next day, whether it’s grilled on the fire, or dried moss, mushroom slices and fried pork skin The soup dumplings are all very good.
Therefore, with the canned soup, he had already devoured three big rice balls, and then saw an old-looking subordinate running out of the inner courtyard with a smile and shouting:
"Lieutenant Du, Lieutenant Du, there are so many things in it..."
It looks like Zhou Ben who is full of big worms but still fierce, but lazily shakes his hands:
"Nonsense, these thieves have even built the gates so magnificently and magnificently. Naturally, they have spent years and years, and don't know how much they worship and donate."
This subordinate smiled even more
"But the great Qi nobles in Chang'an didn't even know that they came to take it. On the contrary, they also made a lot of contributions. Now it is cheaper for the officers and soldiers and Hu Qi..."
"That's a pile of rice, wheat and bean noodles in several warehouses, as well as thick and thin Ling Luo and good cloth; not to mention the gold, silver, copper and tin objects in the Buddhist hall, which make people eye-catching..."
"Especially the big bronze Buddha and the copperplate wall carvings, those big bells; tusk tusk, I don’t know how many jins of materials were spent, but unfortunately it was all smashed and smashed by those horses, otherwise it’s really Brilliantly tight."
"If it is used for smelting, I don't know how many guns can be cast, and how much money will be made for forging;"
"Then try to find more equipment to carry, and send these equipment materials back to Lantian in batches. Anyway, it is not counted in the harvest."
Facing the expectant eyes of his subordinates, Zhou Ben waved his hand.
"Telling..."
As this subordinate Yue Diandian turned and left, there was another young face Ying Xia Yu, who walked over and asked for instructions:
"Lieutenant Du, in the end more than one hundred and forty lives were caught in the monastery... Are you escorted
"What to bet, what do we want these burdens to do... so it's a waste of our manpower and capacity."
Zhou Ben immediately shook his head and interrupted:
"Then, do you have to deal with it all on the spot?..."
The young Yuhou stunned and said: But he remembered some fierce and bloodthirsty rumors of this "Tear Tiger Langjun" on the battlefield; especially during the clearing of the tower before that, he had already used Peng Pai Chong, who was holding the arrow. Coming to the front to smash several enemy soldiers alive;
Finally, with one's own power, a captured enemy soldier was brandished as a weapon, and the other group of enemy soldiers on the tower were pushed out one by one, and they fell to the ground one after another with brittle bones and flesh. on.
"What nonsense? We are the Taiping Army and not the official dogs. We don't have the habit of killing prisoners indiscriminately. Just chop off their thumbs and put them back..."
But Zhou Ben waved his hand indifferently:
"Anyway, if they don’t have this thing, they don’t want to use weapons and make their strength in the future, it will be useless in the old dynasty; they can only honestly go home to farm and earn a living, which is considered to have saved their lives. ..."
At this time, a rider galloped up from a distance, dripping with sweat, and panted in front of Zhou Ben:
"Lieutenant, Zhang Xiaowei, the fourth guerrilla regiment responsible for the interception of the northwest, is approaching, and please prepare accordingly..."
"Fucking, it's really catching up..."
Zhou Ben was a rare curse.
"Hurry up and gather your hands, fuck your guys, and limit yourself to one person, one ride, one piggyback. Don't take any excess burdens; other things you can't take away, get ready to burn..."
After more than an hour, on the top of the protruding hill on the west side of Du Lingyuan; Zhou Ben, who was squatting in the gap between the stones in a gray linen cloak, began to use the elongated single-tube mirror to watch the billowing smoke and dust in the distance.
"In such a hot weather, wearing a brown fur hat and saddlery with animal skins, it must be Yinxia's party item, Hu Wuchai..."
Immediately, Waiting Officer Yu gestured to several large sheets of "Pictures of Four Yi and Nine Sides Zhuhu" he brought out, and said to Zhou Benton:
"I don't know if it is the Dongshan or Pingxia tribe, the remnant of the original Liufu, or the Shizhou tribe subordinate to Hedong..."
In fact, it is different from most people’s perception. As early as the Taiping Army calmed down Shandong, they began to use channels such as Wang Poxian, a merchant in the Guan, who came to invest, and tried their best to collect news from Daibei and Shuofang outside the Great Wall. .
Because of the transaction, various document files and pictures and books from the Chang'an City, the Imperial Palace and the Office of the Office, and various government offices at all levels were bought and smuggled on a large scale;
Therefore, in a sense, the Taiping Army’s understanding and intentions of the Yanbian Zhuhu are actually not much worse than that of the officials in Hedong and other places; the only thing lacking is the accumulation of sufficient first-hand information and the latest two. Changes in three years.
Among them, in terms of the richness of information, these party members are second only to the Shatuo tribe; therefore, the army's fears can be observed in some details to help judge the power composition and armed scale of these party members.
Was it the great chieftain, the personal guards in the monarch’s tent, or the guarding tent composed of the children of the leaders and the little chiefs? Standard masters of string control.
Therefore, under the observation of Zhou Ben and others from a distance, these party army troops have passed through a dozen formations one after another. Among them, there are more than a thousand people in the big formation and hundreds of people in the small formation; and then the old and the weak. Most of the teams and trucks.
In addition to the Hundred Chi Cong Fan Cavaliers who set the flag and cleared the way, the proportion of cavalry among the following formations was also very high, and there were even a large number of horses and pack animals that were pulled behind. .
In contrast, their armor rate is a bit pitiful. Except for a small number of chiefs, chiefs, guards, and tents with variegated armor, most of the cavalry of the feudal lords are gray felt cloaks or old mottled leather sleeves.
This is also one of the status quo of grasslands or nomadic tents outside the mountains where iron is generally lacking; limited sources of iron supplies make them unable to strengthen the requirements for more iron armor protection in addition to the demand for basic weapons and arrows.
Therefore, even if it is the most neat and strong array; the guards who are clustered under the large sheep skull and black flag as the maharajah, also use thick felt blankets and fur to cover the whole body of the mount. The means of protection.
It's just that after these squadrons have gone far, the observation team headed by Zhou Ben was also waiting to leave, but suddenly stopped to stay where it was. Because the distance again set off a burst of smoke and dust.
However, after reducing these figures that walked out of the smoke and dust from far and near, Zhou Ben couldn't help but his face became dignified; because just in these smoke and dust, those who staggered and marched are the members of many faintly crying people. .
And the brother Shudiqi, who was once a crossbowman of the gods, was also walking with a swollen nose and lame face during the period; he was like a walking corpse, even if he accidentally lashed on his body, he was still indifferent. Up.
The so-called sorrow is nothing more than the truth of heart-death, which happened to be printed on him; and his fall to this point is also the result of fate.
Ge Shudiqi was originally a son of the soldiers of the Zuo Shence Camp in the Guannei; his ancestors can be traced back to the Geshu tribe of the Tang Dynasty with the collapse of the Western Turks, along with the leader Ge Shuju;
During the Tianbao years, one of his ancestors became a personal soldier of the famous general Ge Shuhan from Anxi, and the officer worshipped the general Lang; and the ancestors as a trusted confidant went to supervise and annexed the Bashang soldiers and horses under Yang Guozhong.
However, after Ge Shuhan was forced to go to war and defeat Tongguan, his ancestor in charge of guarding also took a team of soldiers and horses from the overlord to go to the king of Chang'an Qin, and then ran into the king of Jianning Li Yan by mistake. Was taken under his command.
Then he became one of the guards of the northwest court who lived in spirit and martial arts. Although he had never obtained the exploits and chances of exploiting the thieves in the Central Plains, he also gained the origins of the Forbidden Army.
After the change in Jingyuan, the emperor of Dezong returned from Fengtian no longer trusted the original Beiya army; he began to choose the elite of the border army to be appointed to the military, thinking that the choice for the defense of Gyeonggi, and to get close to the eunuchs It is the choice for leaders and supervisors.
This also opened the end of the era when the eunuchs were monopolized and the emperor was established; and his ancestors also had their own chances; even his generation is one of the few middle and small generals in the Shence army from beginning to end. .
Therefore, as a child of the branch, he made up for the purpose of the Shence crossbowmen team when he was born; then he was a martial artist since he was a child, and when he was an adult, he took his daughter who was also a young general as his wife.
Therefore, in this difficult world of continuous chaos for years of famine. He relied on the status of the "three non-interviews" under the command of the Shence Army, coupled with the contribution of the neighboring family, and the help of the Yue family's industry in the city.
Although not so wealthy and wealthy Tengda soared, but also in front of the subordinates and tax officials who were crossing the border like cattle and locusts, they were able to protect themselves and save a surplus of family business.
Therefore, no matter how much time there is to criticize the court and the Holy Lord, he will not be able to shake his loyalty and patriotism; and when he and his wife go to temples and places for incense, he will always pray more: Zuo Changyuan".
He would also celebrate the auspiciousness of the country that appeared occasionally, or the victory of killing the grass thief somewhere, and would like to drink a glass of wine with his colleagues as a celebration; therefore, in his eyes, everyone in the ruling and the wild is happy. If you can respect your duties as you do, how can things be difficult for that day.
However, just like a big joke of fate, the thieves who had already fled Lingnan and were about to be driven into the sea suddenly resurged and swept beyond the ridge. And no matter how many loyal ministers and good generals the court has, they can no longer stop this generation.
As a result, among the overwhelming names of sergeants in Beijing, there are a few candidates who are still worthy of the military; Ge Shudiqi also became the commander of Jinwu General Zhang Chengfan, and went to assist Tongguan Qike to give aid to the three thousand under One of the best crossbowmen.
However, although they were full of ambitions and ambitions to kill the enemy and serve the country and turn the tide, they were quickly beaten by reality; when they arrived at Tongguan, Zike let the defenders escape because of lack of food.
Then, after Zhang Chengfan had exhausted his wealth and thought of encouragement, he stabilized his position; however, the following days fell into a vicious circle of gathering powerful enemies before and without reinforcements and resources.
Until the arrow was shot out, only to the point where the stone fell, but the thief army bypassed the forbidden pit and was killed after the customs clearance; this time, even if Wuhou reincarnated, it would not be able to restore the collapse of the former brother Shuhan.
He could only follow in the footsteps of Zhang Chengfan, who had absconded in disguise, and wanted to escape to Chang'an City before making plans; however, when he fled to the Nanba Bridge, worse things happened immediately.
The troops in the towns of Boye, the Zuo Shence camp, who came a step late to support, turned into a mutiny because they were not angry with the treatment of the new army of Shence in Beijing. It also took him homeopathically.
Then he was forced to witness it with his own eyes, spreading dozens of miles of thieves dressed in splendid clothes to come; and his old senior official Zhang Chengfan personally led hundreds of civil and military officials out of the city to greet the momentary "grand event."
Ge Shudiqi was consciously shameless to treat his deceased, and he was at home with the experience of being a thief; he secretly took his wife and fled back to the township of Meixian County without any trace or search.
Then they settled down and depended on the accumulation over the years. Although they were not as good as they used to be, they could still keep the food and clothing in their entirety. They just had fun in such hardships and waited for the coming year.
Then, he discovered that these thieves were very liberal in their handling of the rural areas, basically not asking for names, as long as they could collect a fixed amount of money and food.
Therefore, Ge Shudiqi also gathered a group of local folks on the ground on the grounds of setting up production, while working in the open, while secretly using guns and sticks to drive out thieves; he thought he would respond in case the court recovers in the future.
He has been waiting for the whole year. He has experienced and sent waves of thieves and puppet officials who went to the countryside to urge him. He also heard one after another desperate or hopeful news and rumor.
Waiting until the young crops were growing strong in the early summer of the next year, the royal army finally returned from Hedong. (End of this chapter)