Guo Jingke didn't know whether he had completed the task instructed by the two leaders. He didn't even know what he was doing and whose person he belonged to?
You must know that his business is in Hebei, mainly horse trading... But similar to Chao Ke, this kind of gray business often requires more straightforward personal attachment, so for him, Xiao Guo, the leader, always has to deal with Youzhou A military leader over there and Xu Dalang from Henan were playing tricks on each other.
It was precisely because of this that Xu Dalang was led into the group hastily.
Since he joined the gang with Xu Dalang, and Xu Dalang was also a member of Li Shu, the leader on the left, he was naturally not the same person as Mr. Zhang Sanye, the leader on the right. However, when they got off the boat, the two leaders talked about it face to face.
He casually mentioned that someone familiar with the place needed to come to Qinghe to do a small job, so he, Guo Jingke, took over.
To be honest, this group joined the group in a hurry, and the activities were also in a hurry. From the beginning to the end, there was a feeling of being pushed away... In this case, the righteousness of An Tianxia is just a feeling of excitement on the day of joining the group. , I forgot about it before crossing the river; after receiving the summons, I had to lure Zhang Jinheng to fight on the podium, and after joining the gang, I saw Zhang Jinheng killing people indiscriminately and dealt with it randomly; on the contrary, Zhang Jinheng later He was rewarded with many gold and silver utensils, which somewhat touched Mr. Guo, who was used to being poor.
Come and go in the wind and rain, sell horses and join gangs, isn't this what you want?
Of course, considering Zhang Jinsheng's weird appearance after the rebellion, Xu Dalang's prestige, and the pretentiousness of the two leaders, he did not forget to send a message to the person who knew where Zhang Jinsheng was. The leader said that with the efforts of Guo Jingke, Zhang Jinheng finally went to fight the podium.
I think it's a great achievement.
However, Tong Tong and Guo Jingke realized that at least his summons itself was meaningless... because once Zhang Jinheng made up his mind, Tong Tong set off, and the movement was so big that no one needed to summon him.
"What's that?"
In front of the green and yellow fields, the autumn wind blew slightly. Guo Jingke, who was waiting in the open space outside the city with two hundred riders, was at a loss for a moment, because just when everyone was waiting for Zhang Jinscale to appear, someone actually carried out a pile of similar things from the city gate. Existences such as shoulder carriages are also commonly known as double bearers.
"That's the big boss's car." Someone who had followed Zhang Jinsheng for a long time and was familiar with Guo Jingke immediately came to explain.
Guo Jingke thought for a moment on the horse, but couldn't help scratching his helmet: "It's just a lift, why do we need so many? Wouldn't one be enough? Besides, how can riding a lift be as convenient as riding a horse?"
"Leader Guo has lost his sight." The acquaintance said with emotion, rubbing the scar on his face. "I learned this all from the emperor. Didn't the emperor have some kind of chariot? It is said to be a wheeled cart made up of thousands of carts. There were hundreds of beauties on the cart, who were eating, drinking, urinating, and sleeping. Above. Although this big leader does not dare to be like the emperor, he can use dozens of bearers to make one big bearer, which shows his ability..."
Guo Jingke was at a loss for a moment, but soon he realized what was going on.
More than a dozen shoulder carts...also known as lifters...after being produced, they were immediately put together with iron rods and connected with ropes, and then they were pieced together and combined into a huge square chain lift...the lifters The person is stuck in the hole and can still move, but there is a large gap of more than ten feet in diameter in the middle of the carrier.
At this time, someone again lifted out a huge square wooden couch, which happened to be stuck in the gap in the middle of the lift.
Immediately, dozens of laborers worked together to lift the huge chain lift. Several four-wheeled carts with oxen and horse power were quickly rushed from both sides and crowded around the lift.
So far, a strange, but indeed spectacular, half-lift, half-car giant vehicle has been successfully assembled.
Sometimes, you have to admit some people's imagination.
It was only at this time that Chief Zhang Jinsheng and Zhang Da came out of the city fully dressed and with their heads held high. Then they stepped on people's backs majestically and boarded the car. The attendants followed and raised umbrellas on top.
Before this was over, another personal soldier of leader Zhang Da came over and asked the leaders to come forward to greet them.
Guo Jingke looked in a daze, and now he didn't dare to neglect. He hurried over with dozens of other leaders, bowed his head and half-kneeled to Zhang Jinscale, where Da Ma Jin Dao was sitting, and saluted him. Then he heard a promise from above and stood up in a hurry. He was quickly dragged to the side of the road by an acquaintance.
At this time, I only heard the shouts of the laborers and the coachmen, and saw the cattle and horses on all sides moving first, with the help of people in the middle, and the huge carriage slowly started to move.
"Leader Guo, stop looking." After the car had passed a hundred steps, Guo Jingke was still in a daze, and the scarred leader named Wang next to him immediately urged him. "This is the majesty of a big leader. The two of us are cavalry, so we quickly led people around to clear the way for the big leader."
Guo Jingke agreed and set off with the other party, but he suppressed some thoughts in his heart - he actually wanted to ask everyone else, is this kind of thing really majestic? Don’t you know whether it’s ugly or handsome? Is this where the emperor sits?
And half a county, with 40,000 to 50,000 people, what the hell is that? Aren’t the county guards also riding horses and riding chariots? Isn't that Mr. Zhang also a figure who abandoned the county guard? He even led the mule off the boat by himself.
After getting on the horse and passing from the wings, Guo Jingke glanced at the strange car again, and vaguely remembered that at this time last year, he came from the Northland to sell horses, and he seemed to be drinking with Zhang Jinscale. At that time, the other party was drinking Finally, he easily subdued a strong horse that vaguely resembled a dragon. It looked majestic and heroic... So, he couldn't understand why he had changed into a different person after only one year.
Could it be that he killed too many people and was cursed by the Three Glory and Four Royals?
At this thought, Guo Jingke could only join the horse and move forward in a hurry, breaking away from the car and the old days that made him feel uncomfortable.
But no matter what, the tens of thousands of troops finally rolled towards the east.
However, even though I had brought dry food for more than ten days and didn’t have any extra family members or children, it felt like I was traveling lightly, but if I really wanted to march, there would be countless troubles...
For example, if you have the ability to set up a camp, who in the Wei Dynasty has not been recruited to be a civilian husband? But the most you can do is dig a hole and line up a fence... In fact, there are very few fences, because the rope is expensive and once used, it will be stolen by people in the camp next door, so the rearguard unit responsible for recycling complained every day.
There are also avant-garde and flankers, but except for the two cavalry in front, most of the troops will lose their sense of direction when walking, and the speeds of the various units are inconsistent with each other. When the left guard walks to the middle, the rearguard will find that there is an extra unit behind him. It's all commonplace.
There are also military discipline units, including the pro-military forces of leader Zhang Da, but the final result of inspections often depends on the amount of bribes collected.
There are countless cases of collective diarrhea, mutual accusations of digging the cesspools, blocked marches, and hiding concubines and prostitutes.
Under such circumstances, within two or three days, Guo Jingke, who had always been smart, vaguely realized something... or roughly understood why Zhang Jinscale made the choices he did in some matters.
To put it bluntly, although Zhang Jinscale is the big leader, he does not have the ability to carefully manage the people below him. He can only control the entire army by setting up some leaders.
And this model of a leader leading a group of people is destined to form gangs and sub-groups based on region and relatives. Once such gangs and gangs are formed, they will first become extraordinarily united internally, and then the mutual antagonism will become very serious.
In this case, Zhang Jinscale, who had no idea of the following situation, could only continue to use various methods to strengthen and assert his authority. This was why he killed people, used strange and majestic cars for this, and forced the leaders to treat him ritually. It is also for this that the leaders salute and have to gather for military discussions every morning and evening even if they have nothing to do.
Thinking of this, Guo Jingke felt a little weird about Chief Zhang. He began to feel that this old leader was not so unreasonable.
"correct!"
This morning's routine breakfast meeting was about to end. Zhang Jinscale, who was sitting on the huge square couch, thought for a moment and suddenly put down what he was holding and looked up. "I have something to say... won't the crops in the fields be harvested in another month? They will also be our food then. Then I thought about it, we shouldn't be trampling so randomly during the march... It's too Pity."
The leaders nodded one after another, and this time many people recognized it from the bottom of their hearts, because the vast majority of people have access to farming, regardless of what is going on with "it will also be our food by then", it can be protected The same mature crops are really in line with everyone’s perception.
Guo Jingke is one of them.
"Then, starting from today, when you go back and march, you should pay more attention and follow the official path." Zhang Jinscale continued to give casual instructions. "Whoever tramples the crops will have his head chopped off...
Don't take my military law as nothing, I have always made clear rewards and punishments. "
Upon hearing this, the leaders were excited and immediately raised their voices in agreement.
To put it bluntly, this leader Zhang Da really doesn’t care when he kills people... He usually says he wants to kill, so if something happens, he will definitely kill him, otherwise he will feel that he will be looked down upon by others... And this matter has just been reported If you bring it up, you are likely to be caught as a typical person.
"That's good, let's all wait outside!" Upon seeing this, Leader Zhang Da seemed to be in a slightly better mood, so he simply signaled. "The weather is good today, let's set off early..."
Naturally, everyone was speechless, and immediately put down their breakfast, swarmed out, and waited in front of the door.
After a while, the huge car was naturally formed, and then Zhang Jinheng boarded the car and accepted the procrastination of all the big leaders who were half-kneeling and saluting.
After finally struggling, the leaders returned to their positions and hurriedly set off with their respective troops. Guo Jingke led his horse dealer cavalry ahead as usual, but half an hour later, he suddenly met another man under the bright morning sun. A small group of cavalry.
There were not many people in this group, not more than ten riders, but the leader was someone he knew.
"Leader Guo."
At the foot of the hill, Niu Da, who had been waiting for a long time, took the lead and walked out alone a hundred steps away.
"Ou leader." Guo Jingke was inexplicably excited, but he still hurried forward to meet the opponent. "Can you give me some advice?"
"Thank you for your hard work, Chief Guo." Niuda whispered as the two horses crossed each other. "Things are ready. Starting from Lujiao Pass in front is the Bashili Douzigang Salt Lake. Let's start from there.
Before noon today, we must leave Zhang Jinsheng's brigade, enter Lujiao Pass first, and join the army... to prevent accidental damage... By the way, we must also lure in another cavalry team as much as possible and eat them first. "
"I know." Guo Jingke responded seriously, and then, as if by some strange combination of circumstances, he lowered his voice again after he had clearly brought everyone out of the headquarters. "But I still have a dozen brothers who were beaten by Zhang Jinscale and placed behind the Chinese army. I first rode over alone and gave instructions to let them run away from behind, and then came back to guide them... I will not make any mistakes. .”
Niu Da glanced at the other party and did not have the slightest doubt: "Be careful. After all, Zhang Jinscale has tens of thousands of soldiers. The weapons are all thrown away by the imperial court. There is no shortage of them. We are few and if one of us is not good, we will be trapped." ...Forget it, I'll wait for you behind Lujiao Pass. There's a red flag on the post, so you won't miss it."
Guo Jingke nodded repeatedly.
In this way, the connection between the two sides was completed. Niu Da led his dozen or so horses to gallop ahead. However, after hesitating for a moment, Guo Jingke only let his deputy lead the troops to move forward slowly, and then galloped towards the Chinese army alone.
Coincidentally, when he arrived at the Chinese army's "car", Zhang Jinsheng was killing people.
More than a dozen civilian men were pushed down by a small river ditch, crying for mercy and bursting into tears. However, the soldiers did not delay and stabbed each one one by one, and then beheaded them in a routine demonstration.
"what happened?"
Guo Jingke casually asked an officer of Zhang Jinsheng's personal soldiers who was responsible for the execution.
When the officer saw that it was Guo Jingke, he was polite: "Master Guo, don't worry, these warriors are stupid, violated military law, and trampled the crops..."
Guo Jingke nodded repeatedly, ignored it, and continued to walk towards the huge car... In fact, if it weren't for today's military order that tramples on the crops to pay for life, he, the leader, Xiao Guo, might not have chosen to go this way... This matter made He vaguely felt that even if this old friend was not a good person, he had not killed anyone and turned him into a madman. Coupled with the previous reward, he decided to come over to give a proper reminder.
It's not about betraying anyone, but about repaying this kindness, as long as Zhang Jinscale knows that a serious enemy is coming to attack him.
However, after walking only a few steps, under the sun, Guo Jingke suddenly stopped his horse because he clearly saw that the car did not stop there on its own initiative, but lay tilted in the crop field next to the river ditch...
Looking back, I realized that the feet of those begging for mercy were mostly wet and muddy... In other words, it was this vehicle that trampled the crops, and it was the warriors of this vehicle who died to maintain military law.
The reason why the whole car trampled on the crops was undoubtedly because his feet got wet when crossing the river, and he had to carry such a thing, which was impossible to support.
Guo Jingke didn't know much about reading and didn't know what words to use to describe his weird mood at the moment.
At this time, Zhang Jinscale, who was still sitting on the huge couch in his car, raised his hand and shouted from a distance:
"Xiao Guo, why are you here? Is there anything going on ahead?"
"Yes." Guo Jingke immediately dismounted, bowed from a distance, then raised his head and informed respectfully.
"The cavalry went forward and found that there was Douzi Gang in about ten miles away... The big leader is a local, so he should know this place. It has salt swamps, low hills, and rivers. There must be a lot of hidden treasures in it. Soldiers and robbers... I don’t know how to deal with them, so I came here and asked the big boss.”
"It's true that Douzigang is a bit troublesome... In fact, if it wasn't far away from home, I would have wanted to come to Douzigang, but Douzigang is poor." Zhang Jinscale sighed slightly irritably. "Okay, let's not go through Douzigang, but the official road to the north of Douzigang. You go tell Wang Dashen and pass on my order, and we go to the south to take cover under Douzigang. If anyone dares to come from there, We will kill anyone who comes close to us... This time, just grab the food from the podium and leave, don't do any unnecessary things."
"I know, I know." Guo Jingke saluted respectfully on the ground, then immediately got on his horse and fled away from the hanging heads.
In the morning of that day, after returning, Guo Jingke led his cavalry into the abandoned Lujiao Pass, entered Douzigang, which stretched for dozens of miles, and met Niuda.
Immediately, Wang Dasc, the leader of another Zhang Jinscale vanguard force who received Guo Jingke's message, also led his troops into Lujiao Pass without any precautions two-quarters of an hour later, and followed Guo Jingke's cavalry from a distance behind the pass and easily crossed. There are several creeks and swamps.
Then, he was ambushed by soldiers and horses several times his own in a narrow area behind a hill. In just two quarters of an hour, the whole group collapsed. A small number of the three hundred cavalrymen, a mixture of donkeys and horses, died in the battle. , most people chose to surrender to the opponent's leader, a young man named Cheng Mingqi.
After the battle, as the flag was blown, Cheng Zhili, who was also ambushing in Douzigang, led 800 cavalry to attack. By bypassing and flanking, they conducted a typical mid-range cavalry raid, and then attacked the cavalry that had just set off. , Zhang Jinsheng's rear guard was preparing to cross a small river ditch, and easily succeeded, and burned all the camping materials that had just been collected in the camp.
The battle suddenly started.
It was only then that Zhang Jinsheng, who had already marched to the official road on the side of Douzigang, realized that Xiao Guo's warning was correct. The thieves in Douzigang might be a trouble, and the journey ahead might be a bit difficult. PS: Good night everyone.
