Praise!
"Hold!"
Under the starry night, the horse galloped straight towards the garrison of Hanoi County. This man was wearing black attire, which was difficult to identify in the night.
After running wildly for a day, the war horse was already a little tired, but it needed to reach Hanoi as soon as possible to send the emperor's message.
But as soon as he ran into the forest, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from behind, and it was extremely dense and fast. It became more and more clear in his ears. He was startled. He immediately grabbed the reins and looked back, only to see a tall red horse. Running as fast as chasing the wind.
His horse was tired, but even at its peak it could not outrun the horse. In an instant, the man on the horse was clearly visible. It was a man with a resolute face and sword-like eyebrows. Judging from his heroic spirit and temperament, he should be from someone. The son of a big family.
The guard immediately tightened his reins. He couldn't run anyway, so he might as well stop and wait.
"Hey!!"
The group of people stopped almost at the same time. They looked at the person in front of them with vigilance. The main reason was that the horse he was sitting on was so majestic. Its mane was soft and elegant, and its height was extraordinary. It made the young man on the horse look as heroic as a god.
At this time, several more horses were running behind the young man. They were all warriors on horseback, with their bows and arrows pointed at him. The man in the lead roared: "Don't hurt my husband!"
The detective felt bitter in his heart and looked at the young man in front of him in surprise.
Is he a gentleman?
Where did I hurt him? Looking at his horse and spear in his hand, it would be fine if he didn't hurt me.
After everyone had arrived and dismounted from their horses, Zhang Han asked and found out that the leader of this group was named Xu Cheng, also known as Gongtu. He was Niu Fu's general and a member of Dong Cheng's army.
The purpose of delivering the letter at this time was to ask Zhang Yang, the prefect of Hanoi, to meet the emperor in advance and send troops to greet him and repel the two thieves Li Jue and Guo Si.
"May I ask, who is sir? Does he belong to Zhang Yang, the prefect of Hanoi?"
"No," Zhang Han looked them up and down and shook his head.
These are just people who are running for their lives to hire soldiers and horses. They probably have nothing to rob, and these horses are not considered good quality. They can't be sold for much if they are stolen... Zhang Han thought in a wicked way, he didn't have to rob others, he just wanted to steal them. I’m used to it on Yingyin Road.
Subconsciously, I wanted to take a look. This scene was familiar, and I looked like a robber, so I secretly estimated the price for them. As a result, I was too lazy to do it, and the profit was too low.
It's better to defraud Dian Wei of his money.
Dian Wei's money is easy to deceive, so play a few games with him and place some bets. Dian Wei is easy to cheat, and you can make several gold in a day.
However, Zhang Han would not just catch Dian Wei alone, he would usually do it once or twice when his salary was paid.
"I belong to Yanzhou Mu, General Dejian, and Feitinghou Cao Cao's chief secretary Zhang Han. He is leading his army to Luoyang to repair the imperial city, and there are 50,000 villagers. If you have any news, you can tell me."
"this……"
Xu Cun was surrounded by people, and all he could see were strong warriors. Among them, the strong man standing next to Zhang Han was like an iron tower. He was a little scared, but he had a mission. If he hadn't seen Zhang Yang, the prefect of Hanoi, , spreading the news is also a violation of military orders.
I didn’t know how to choose for a while.
As a soldier in the army, your heart will always be as strong as iron, and you will never give in to threats easily. This is the quality that a military officer should have.
He was extremely entangled in his heart, but he never thought of entrusting the news to him.
At this time, Zhang Han smiled kindly and said: "Even if you don't say anything, it will still be the same if I kill you all and search for you."
"Besides, if you die here, won't you still not be able to see Prefect Zhang?"
Xu Cun cupped his hands and said, "General Dong asked us to invite reinforcements. Within fifteen days, they will definitely arrive in Anyi and take the main road to Donghuan and Jin'an Deng. I would like to ask Zhang Yang to send troops and horses to go out to Hanguguan to meet them."
"Hangu Pass!"
Zhang Han needs to go back and look at the map, otherwise he only knows the name but doesn't know how to get there.
Leaving Hangu Pass in the west, there should be a main road marching directly to Chang'an. This road had been used a lot in the past. The most recent repair was when Dong Zhuo and the emperor moved westward to clear the way.
On the 15th.
"How is the situation now?" Zhang Han asked with a frown.
He realized that the situation might be very critical. The so-called fifteenth day, excluding the time for sentries to report, the thirteenth was simply not enough time to send out a large army, so they could only attack with cavalry.
This means that it is probably just a news to force Zhang Yang to send troops to greet him. In fact, the best effect is that once his troops arrive, they can scare off Li Jue and Guo Si's pursuers.
"The situation is that many generals are fighting endlessly in Hongnong, and the emperor has no peace every day. After fleeing many times, he has now passed Huayin. Fortunately, the generals in Hongnong protected each other, so he was able to escape the pursuit of Li Jue and Guo Si. .”
"Tell me everything you know about the situation in Chang'an. Don't leave anything out. Try to be as detailed as possible."
Zhang Han squatted down and handed Xu Ceng a pot of water, and asked Dian Wei to bring out some dry food for the accompanying brothers.
When he took it and was about to eat it, Zhang Han said softly: "Just say that Duke Cao has always had the ambition to help the Han Dynasty."
"You know, he is my father-in-law, and I can mobilize troops."
"well!"
Xu Ceng naturally didn't know that the person in front of him was the son-in-law of General Dejian, but he didn't understand why Zhang Han said "you know", maybe it was a mantra.
So while eating, I told him all about what happened recently.
It turned out that after the emperor returned to the east, everyone was in peace. However, Guo Bang regretted it for some unknown reason and secretly chased him, hoping to rob the emperor into his camp to give orders to the generals.
But his plot had just been carried out when it was exposed. Li Jue got ahead of him and kidnapped the emperor, queen, palace officials and ministers.
Just because of such an incident, it became the trigger between the two. The two generals saw each other's determination to completely defeat the other, and this started a deadly battle. It must have been fighting for a month or two by now. After a long time, tens of thousands of people were killed and injured, and countless civilians were killed. Chang'an was almost reduced to ruins.
After that, the major vassal generals in the two armies were unwilling to fight. Li Jue's general Yang Feng and Niu Fu's general Dong Cheng must have obtained the permission of the Han court and won the favor of the ministers, secretly leading the emperor and All the palace people went to Hongnong.
Immediately afterwards, Li Jue and Guo Si knew that once the emperor returned to Luoyang, they would have nowhere to go and regretted their previous decision, so they chased the Han emperor while fighting, hoping to capture him and control him again, so he The Hongnong War.
Therefore, the current situation is that the emperor is still being hunted, and the situation is quite critical. Who knows when he wakes up one day, he will be overtaken by the troops of Li and Guo, resulting in a fatal disaster.
After understanding it, Zhang Han asked a few doubts.
"Li Jue and Guo Si, they originally marched together and have been jointly controlling the emperor. They have been relatively stable over the years and seem to be quite prosperous. When did they start to have this discord? In the end, they met in battle and died. To the point of endless rest?”
"Sir, you don't know something," Xu Cheng leaned behind a tree and looked at Zhang Han with a wry smile.
He is not in a hurry to deliver the letter now. After all, looking at Han's meaning, he will never let him go if he doesn't make it clear.
"Both of them were former generals of Dong Gong. When Xiliang's army, which was said to be 300,000 in the army, led the emperor to Chang'an, the Qiang and Hu from outside the Great Wall came to help again, so the soldiers and horses were mixed. After that, the people and horses gathered together More and more, the old troops of the Baibo Army surrendered, and the remnants of the Black Mountain Army came to surrender, some of them joined the camp of General Li Jue, and some went under the command of General Guo."
"In this way, competition for food, grass, and money arose. Last year, Taicang was supposed to be opened to provide disaster relief to the people. Unexpectedly, the two had a dispute because of this. In the end, Taicang was not opened, which led to widespread public dissatisfaction and people from almost all places fled. So this Blame, blaming each other again.”
"At this time, Jia Xu, who joined the army, said that there was only one master of the court, and it would be difficult to govern if he obeyed the orders of two people."
"Wait, who is it?" Zhang Han's expression suddenly brightened.
"Join the army Jia Xu."
"It turns out it's him, then it's okay." Zhang Han laughed. This bloody war between warlords was definitely not planned by him, but such a trend had already occurred.
But it's very likely that he stepped in at the most critical moment.
In his previous life, he knew that Jia Xu was extremely scheming and resourceful, and he learned from others' strengths and liked to hide things behind his back.
The kind of people who stand behind others are the most disgusting.
He couldn't help but remember that when he was going up the stairs while studying, there was a roommate who always liked to walk behind others. Every time Zhang Han raised his legs to go up a step, he would feel like he was about to receive a thousand-year kill, and then he would scream to the sky and walk on the railing. The chrysanthemum remains.
"When a butterfly flutters its wings in Yongzhou, it may cause a storm in Qingzhou. Do you understand this truth?"
Zhang Han looked at Xu Ceng, who shook his head numbly.
He patted Xu Chong on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Jia Xu, who joined the army, is this butterfly."
"Perhaps it was his push that contributed to the current situation. Let me ask you, Li Guo and Li were fighting endlessly. Where did Jia Xu go?"
"He," Xu Ceng recalled carefully, as if the news was messy. After thinking for a long time, he said: "He later transferred to the command of General Zhang Ji, but Zhang Ji's army did not participate in the war. When he arrived in Hongnong, he went to the south to find food and grass. Lu’s.”
"Oh, he ran away." When Xu Cheng said this, he suddenly realized that he just ran away.
The generals on both sides were fighting to the death, but they went to the south to look for food and grass. According to the route they had explored before, there was a road from Hongnong to Jingzhou. There were not many passes on this road, even if there were at most hundreds of defenders.
Because it is too far away from the city, food and grass are inconvenient, and support is not available, so there will not be too many troops.
"That's it. The emperor must be in extreme danger and can only enter Anyi and wait for help from the princes. There are many families in Hedong, but there are no princes to lead troops. The help they can give is also very limited. But the families in various places should He also has the heart to help people."
When Zhang Han said this, he smiled directly at Xu Cheng: "Didn't those ministers want to go to Yuan Shao or Yuan Shu?"
"Yuan Shao, who is in Jizhou, should be very close. His cavalry can arrive within two days and can probably scare off the pursuers."
Xu Cheng really knew about this. At that time, he heard that Dong Cheng and a Confucian scholar were furious. It was because of this festival that they had secretly issued an edict for a long time, hoping that Yuan Shao would come to greet him. However, every time, there was no response. .
And Yuan Shao proposed two years ago that he would establish the emperor Dongli and not obey the edict of Chang'an, so his hope was basically dashed, and he might not send troops to save him.
After some explanations, Zhang Han was already sure that Yuan Shao would not intervene now, or he would pretend to follow the imperial edict. In fact, he was slow to send troops and let others pick up the emperor. His focus must still be on capturing Youzhou.
If I remember correctly, the war between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan is now entering its final stage. He will never give Gongsun Zan any chance to breathe, because Yuan Shao has defeated Gongsun Zan step by step from a weak point. Once this battle ends in victory, , that is to shock the whole world and make great achievements in northern Xinjiang.
The momentum is extraordinary.
Yuan Shao is known as the God of Headwind, and this battle contributed at least 70% of his fame.
"How many cavalrymen came out to ask for help?" Zhang Han asked seriously.
"Detective sentries were sent to Jingzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, Yanzhou, Hanoi, and Yingchuan." Xu Chong answered truthfully. After talking to this, he could roughly guess what the Han in front of him wanted to do.
The soldiers were so quick that he didn't have time to wait for the announcement, and now he was going to perform meritorious service and welcome the emperor.
So he then cupped his hands and said: "Sir, I understand that you are eager to achieve great results. In troubled times and the country is in trouble, everyone is willing to become famous in one battle. However, Li Jue and Guo Bin have more than thousands of cavalry under their command. Among them, the foreigners outside the Great Wall are also good at horse fighting. Sir, we should take a long-term approach and take us to Hanoi to report to the prefect, or to find Duke Cao and then make preparations!"
A wild and unruly smile suddenly appeared on Zhang Han's face. He stood up, patted the tall red horse beside him, and said in a deep voice: "Do you know this horse?"
Xu Ceng and his companions behind him looked at it carefully at the same time. After identifying it for a moment, observing its majestic horse and momentum, they gradually recalled the BMW that had dominated the three armies.
"Red Rabbit!? It's actually Lu Fengxian's Red Rabbit?!"
"Sir, yes or no?! This is Red Rabbit?!"
"I heard that unless you are a hero, you cannot defeat this horse!"
"Hahaha! Yes, this is Red Rabbit!" Zhang Han laughed loudly, lowered his head and glanced at them, and said boldly: "You are right, I just want to ride the wind and ride the horse to accomplish this feat! Please note that Shaori Na Yun Zhi, once promised to be the best in the world!!"
Now that you've caught up, let's go and make a heavenly contribution!
"well!"
"Sir, you are so heroic. If Xu is not in danger, you will definitely fight back with your husband to save the emperor!!"
Xu Ceng's whole body was numb from head to toe. This poem was recited by such a heroic young man. It was so heroic and full of heroism.
It's almost overflowing.
Dian Wei didn't understand. Anyway, he was just heroic, and he also showed an excited expression.
"How about this poem?" Zhang Han looked at them seriously.
"good."
Xu Ceng's whole body was excited, as if it hit his heart. When he was a boy, didn't he want to become a famous general who fought in all directions and returned to his hometown with honor? ! Now he is a deputy commander, and he is still a small cavalry. He has been hungry for four meals in three days, and has long forgotten the lofty ambitions of his youth.
But why does this gentleman ask?
Zhang Han patted him on the shoulder and said: "When you go to send an order to ask for reinforcements, please be sure to spread this poem."
Xu Cheng: "..."
Dian Wei: "I knew it. He wouldn't miss this opportunity."
…
Returning to Guancheng, Zhang Han immediately gathered Gao Shun's 800 cavalry, changed the horses, and took Jueying out of the stable, while Chitu was temporarily locked in.
"Lulu!"
Red Rabbit was very angry in the wooden stalls of the stable. He kept neighing and stared at Zhang Han angrily.
"There is no way, Jueying must be on Ping Road." Zhang Han and Jueying stood outside and said apologetically.
"Law! Puff!" Chitu shouted angrily, as if he didn't understand.
Then what did you show off by slapping me just now? ! Scumbag!
Jueying's flowing mane kept flying, and his dark and deep eyes slowly raised upwards. As the horse's head turned, he made a crisp snort from his nose: "Humph."
(End of chapter)
