The fifth chapter
The village leader, Mr. Qi, was about forty years old, and looked very capable. He ordered a banquet to be arranged and to entertain Hu Yangeng and others.
"The Taiwei Huyan is known as the Iron Whip King and is a founding nobleman. The young general is here to visit his humble house today, and it is a gloriousness." Qi Yuanwai first praised Huyan Geng.
"I saw that the bow in the village was squeezing and the knife was sharpened. The outsider was very alert."
"Hey, there are many bandits in Taihang Mountains, and we just set up villages to protect ourselves."
"I dare to ask what mountain this mountain is called? How far is it from Lund Mansion."
"This mountain is called Fajiu Mountain. After passing this mountain, you will walk sixty miles to the location of the Longde Mansion."
"I think this is Huoshan, who is a Tibetan soldier."
"The young general has great eyesight. A group of defeated soldiers came a few months ago. I heard that Taiyuan City retreated, but I didn't dare to go to Longde Mansion. I occupied Fajiu Mountain and only quarreled in the four villages."
"Have you ever disturbed the official's wife?"
"I came to borrow food once. At the beginning, there were only a hundred people on the mountain. When the villages gathered around, they could spend the winter. But seeing that all the defeated soldiers from all over the mountain were sent here, I was afraid that there would be nearly a thousand people on the mountain. I think they would go down the mountain to borrow food soon. How could there be so much food to borrow?"
"Have the official asked for help from Lunde House?"
"At the beginning of the year, Longde Mansion was trapped by the Jin thief. Zhang's parents arrived. We sent someone to the mansion to complain, but we did not reply."
Zhang's parents were Zhang Que, the governor of Longde. He had just taken office and was afraid that it was all about the invasion of the Jin people. He was afraid that he would not have the heart to pay attention to such trivial matters as the bandits in Jiushan.
Mr. Qi no longer talked about bandits, but just advised everyone to drink.
While drunk, Qi Yuanwai suddenly said: "If the young general can restrain these defeated soldiers for the court, it will be a great merit..."
The request has been made, and the price of Hu Yangeng is on the way.
"After all, I am a 8th-rank Xiuwulang, and I have no choice but to protect the country and the people. But the military rations of thousands of people are really hard to raise..." Hu Yangeng hesitated.
"If the defeated soldiers are not bound by the general, they will definitely be corrupt in the villages. I am willing to take the lead. All villages and villages west of Longde Prefecture will be presented to the royal army this winter."
"There are thousands of people on the mountain, how can two hundred stones be enough? It costs three thousand stones no matter what."
The two bargained and finally agreed that Qi Yuanwai would help Hu Yangeng raise 500 stones of military rations. If there was money to be paid by Longde Mansion, Qi Yuanwai would buy it on his behalf.
"It's not early, please rest early."
The official finally squeezed out three rooms for Hu Yangeng and others. Hu Yangeng occupied one. He had not had a good rest in the past few days and drank wine again. Hu Yangeng fell asleep quickly.
Early in the morning, everyone packed up and walked towards Fajiu Mountain with their horses. They walked along the mountain. Soon they met the school patrolling the mountain.
"Ye, are you here to vote and come up the mountain to bring my king's gift?"
Qiu Muling Zhonglian was furious and was about to step forward. Hu Yangeng stopped him and said to the school: "Repay your king, and Hu Yangeng from Yanzhou came to worship the mountain."
When the school went back to report, Hu Yangeng and others were waiting at the mountain gate. Suddenly, a drum sounded on the mountain. Soon, a general was wearing all his body and came down the mountain.
The general was born majestic, carrying a Green Dragon Crane Moon Sword in his hand, a bow and a pot of arrows hung on the saddle.
But his dress was so strange.
I saw the general who came down the mountain wearing the clothes of the yamen, half of the coat was covered with broken leather armor. The heart protection mirror was missing, but he wrapped some fragments of paper armor on his chest with white cloth, which looked like a woman's chest.
Bu Lu Gu Leping proudly sorted out his cloak and urged him to go forward: "I'll listen to it. I'll ask which army you are from? Why did you occupy the mountain and become a thief in the bushes? Seeing that the imperial court ordered the officials here, they would not get off the horse and be tied up."
"You are the thief." The general who went down the mountain picked up the Qinglong Yanyue Sword and jumped off the horse. "Stop talking, let's gossip and walk with your grandfather for twenty rounds, and weigh the weight."
The Qinglong Yanyue Sword was originally a ceremonial instrument, but it was strange that the general used it to make weapons. He even jumped off the horse.
However, seeing the general taking off his horse and pulling his posture, everyone could see clearly: it turned out to be a four-foot long blade, two-foot long handle, with a wide body and a thick back, the blade body was made into the shape of a Qinglong Yanyue Sword, and the weight was added in an extra way.
Bu Lu Gu Leping said, "I won't bully you either, just take a few moves." After that, he rushed up with the one-legged bronze man.
As soon as the two fought, Hu Yangeng saw the trick: Bu Lu Gu Leping was just strong, and he looked like a cavalry general rushed and beat him hard, while the general who went down the mountain was a serious general, and his strength was not inferior. The step-up and retreat were much better than Bu Lu Gu Leping.
Hu Yangeng was afraid that his brother would suffer a loss, so he took an arrow, took down the arrow, glanced at it, and shouted: "Stop it all." At the same time, he shot the arrow shaft, and was in the middle of the head of the general who went down the mountain.
When Bu Lu Gu Leping heard Hu Yangeng's order, he jumped backwards out of the circle. When he went down the mountain, he was shocked and stopped.
Hu Yangeng shouted: "The city besieged in Taiyuan is in a hurry, and I'm fighting here. With this strength, why can't I go down to Taiyuan City?"
When the general went down the mountain heard this, he looked ashamed, and put away his sword and asked, "I am Guan Liyuan under the command of Xiaozhong Gong. Did Tishi rushed out of Taiyuan?"
"That is, under the command of the deputy chief of the Taiyuan King, he explored Ma Yuhou Hu Yangeng. He was under the command of the royal capital, gathered reinforcements from the surrounding areas and rescued Taiyuan."
Guan Liyuan looked embarrassed: "Taiyuan naturally wants to save it, but... please go up the mountain first. There is a stone envoy on the mountain to make an idea."
Hu Yangeng held his confusion and followed Guan Liyuan up the mountain.
After Bu Lu Guleping and Guan Liyuan passed a few moves, he started chatting with Guan Liyuan as if he was familiar with it.
It turned out that Guan Li was originally a head of the bow and archery club in the lower border of Jingyuan Army in Shaanxi Province. The Song army was defeated again and again. When Xiao Zhong Gong led his army eastward, he drew township archers to make up for the vacancies. In this way, Guan Li officially became an imperial guard.
"It turns out that it's just an archer." Bu Lu Gu Leping muttered.
"So what about the archer? The brave King Wu'an killed Hua Xiong with a wine, but he was just a horse archer." Although there was no "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at that time, the Three Kingdoms Review had been circulated in many versions.
But Bu Lu Gu Leping began to compete: "You are leading fifty archers in Xiaozhong Gong's army, right?"
“So what?”
"I heard that every time Xiaozhong's archer was shot, he had always received money. He was surrounded by the Killing Xiongling, and it was all up to the archer and the Jin people to shoot, but the reward did not keep up. The archer mutinized and Xiaozhong's archer was killed..."
When Guan Liyuan heard this, he waved the knife in his hand: "Every time an arrow is made, every archer needs to count the money. In each command, half of the people shoot arrows and half of them give money. You must also be a member of the Western Army. You know, let me ask you, are there half of the people in the Western Army who can count?"
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious." Bu Lu Gu Leping smiled apologized and said, "There is something strange about the defeat of 400,000 reinforcements. I also want to find out the truth."
"The truth? The truth is that Yao Gu, Zhang Hao and others are not in the air. Li Gang's uncle will not fight. The 400,000 army is only 40,000 people under Xiaozhong's uncle. In the Yuci Changser Formation, the head and tail are not echoed. The 10,000 people in the central army are facing tens of thousands of Jin soldiers. We sacrifice our lives to fight before breaking out of the siege."
As everyone spoke, they arrived in the village.
It was said to be a copycat, but it was just a dilapidated temple. Guan Li originally recommended that several people in the village were all named.
The highest official title in the mountain village was Shi Xingfang, the stone envoy mentioned by Guan Liyuan. He was the founding noble Shi Shouxin and hereditary envoy in the capital's access imperial guards. However, when it was passed down to his generation, only Cheng Zhonglang was left.
Since the battle of the Chanyuan Alliance, the Imperial Guards have never been in charge. Shi Xingfang is a good player in business lending and escorting camps. He is a good player in battle. He is the god-killing Li Gang, who insists on pulling the Imperial Guards in Hebei to Hedong to die. Now, Bianliang is empty.
When the Jin soldiers were besieging the imperial guards, the imperial guards were the first to run away, so on this mountain, there were about 200 people from the imperial guards, and they were almost commanding, although these 200 people came from thirty different generals (boxes).
There were more than fifty people from Hebei imperial guards. These people were quite surrounded by a group of people, embracing an Ai Zheng, named Xiong Dabai as the leader. Xiong Dabai deserves his name, with a tiger back and a bear waist, a big horse with a golden sword sitting on the bed, and a pair of water-milled steel whips leaning against the side.
There were the most people and horses in the Western Army, and they were also relatively uniform. Most of them came from the fourth general of the Jingyuan Army like Guan Li, and there was also a bare-legged head from the Xihe Army.
Guan Li was originally the leader of these more than 300 Western Army. When he saw the "hometown man" of the Huyan family in Yanzhou, he felt secretly happy. Although the Western Army was neat, the leader was just a head of the Duomen who was not of grade, which was far from the serious commander of the Duomen Guard.
Now he is a man from his hometown in Yanzhou. How could Hu Yangeng say that he is also a young envoy and a famous general, and he can only fight with Shi Xing.
The head of the bare kundu from Xihe Army was named Wang Mancang. His family was originally a businessman. He bought a head of the Western Army to manage Huiyi for the Yao family. Unexpectedly, the West Army was really short of people this time, so he also attracted a professional smuggler like him.
Hu Yangeng and others politely rejoice in Shi Xingfang's name and greeted him. Hu Yangeng said, "Rescue soldiers are like putting out fires. Tell the children to clean up and set out to save Taiyuan tomorrow."
After hearing this, Shi Xingfang spitted: "Just relying on these six hundred people, I dare to save Taiyuan. I really think you are."
"If you don't go to save Taiyuan, Pojun lost his generals, and generals like Liu Yanqing and Yao Gu will be in charge of Lingnan. Can the court spare you? If you just fall into the mountains and become the mountain king, what good results will be there?"
What Hu Yangeng said was the truth. If it weren't for fear of the court's investigation, this group of people would have retreated to Longde Mansion long ago, so why should they hide in the mountain?
"I'm going to save Taiyuan, it's not a dead end." Shi Xingfang said.
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