Chapter 66 Revealed
The tomb guards and Caizhou reinforcements were stationed in the northwest foot of the Yuhuang Mausoleum, and a thousand Tongbai Mountain soldiers built two camps on the east side.
Although doing this will cause a lot of tedious and irritable work and the generals will be very hard, the battalions are relatively independent. In addition to being more convenient for governance, they can also maximize the protection and avoid inducing reflexive chaos when encountering enemy raids or raids.
The Tianxiong Army was killed in Datong, and tens of thousands of people were mixed in the west city. This time, Cao Shili mixed thousands of people together and was killed by Xu Huai beyond recognition. It was all caused by not strictly garrisoning the camp.
This is because Cao Shili's troops were unable to attack Gong County and suffered heavy losses. The more important reason is carelessness.
Not only Cao Shili, but also the generals of the western wing of Chihu people, did not expect that the enemy would attack the heart of the camp from a narrow mountain path to the south.
This time, Xu Huai and his team won a great victory in Qingquangou Village, but after returning, they also ordered Xu Sihu and others to use this as a warning to strengthen the control of light and dark posts outside the camp to prevent the enemy from launching a retaliatory attack on them.
Fan Zongqi, Xu Sihu and others did not accompany him to Gongxian City, and did not stop at this time. On the one hand, they accepted prisoners into the camp and placed them in the camp, and on the other hand, they strengthened the warning matters inside and outside the camp.
At this moment, I saw Xu Huai and others returning from afar, but there was no sign of King Jing Zhao Tuan, Qian Shangduan and others. Fan Zongqi ran over to help his father-in-law raise his horse and asked curiously: "Why are you back in a hurry?"
Xu Sihu, Wu Chihai and others came over and looked at Wang Hua, Wang Zhang and others in the Western Army armor.
Wang Hua and Wang Zhang were soldiers under the command of the various military camps in Shaanxi. Zheng Huaizhong, Gao Chunnian and the Western Army's vanguard generals were severely humiliated by him today. Xu Huai was still worried that they might take advantage of the situation.
After getting off the horse, he walked into the military camp and ordered Fan Zongqi, Xu Sihu, Wu Chihai and others: "Secretly order the troops in the village to continue to rest, and the other troops are ready for the battle--and other camps will be advanced before other advances."
Fan Zongqi, Xu Sihu, Wu Chihai and others were not surprised, and they thought they were going to attack the enemy camp again, so they hurriedly went on arrangements.
When he arrived at the big tent, Xu Huai asked someone to bring dozens of sets of armor and asked Wang Hua and Wang Zhang to replace the armor on the Western Army.
Although Wang Hua, Wang Zhang and others have tattoos on their faces, they can't recognize them if they apply some stains on their faces.
If Zheng Huaizhong really wanted to send someone to pick people up, they would never admit it anyway.
After some preparation, Xu Huaicai summoned Fan Zongqi, Xu Sihu and others to introduce the identities of Wang Hua, Wang Zhang and others to them.
"Brother Zhang, Shuanzi, Su An! Father-in-law, my father really missed you so much over the years. I didn't even recognize you just now!"
When he escaped from Jingzhou, Fan Zongqi had already remembered it, but he was very young at that time and had a vague memory of many people and things. He had not recognized Wang Hua, Wang Zhang and others just now. He was so excited that he screamed, and tears couldn't even stop flowing down.
"You kid, we are all fine. You are trying to make us cry!" Wang Ju said, slapped his son-in-law Fan Zongqi.
"Where have you been hiding over the years? How could you be a soldier in the Western Army?" Fan Zongqi called Wang Hua, Wang Zhang and others to sit down in the tent, curiously inquiring about their whereabouts over the years.
It was also hastily just now. Xu Huai and Wang Ju didn't ask a lot of details. The Wang family escaped from Jingzhou in three ways and hid their names. Wang Hua and Wang Zhang belonged to the second route, with nearly 70 women and children in total. Xu Huai and Wang Ju had to figure out whether there were other people left in Huayin County and whether to send someone to pick him up immediately.
Although Wang Hua and Wang Zhang knew about Xu Huai and Wang Ju were in Gong County five days ago, they were very excited to meet each other at this time and sat down to say a lot of things one by one.
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The Wang family has been the generals of Jingzhou for generations. During the war with the Dangxiang people, not only did the Wang family members die, but the family soldiers sacrificed their lives for the court. Xu Huai's biological father Wang Xiao became the one who was punished by Cai Ying forged edicts, and the last group of family generals were also killed on the way to escort Xu Huai's mother back to Jingzhou.
With the assistance of Fan Yong, Wang Ju escaped from Jingzhou Prefecture Prison and arranged for his clan members and family members who followed Wang's family to move out of Jingzhou to avoid persecution. Among the more than 130 clan members, they were mainly old, disabled women and children, and there were not many adult males.
Wang Ju was in charge at that time, worried that Li Daitao's plan could not be concealed by old foxes such as Cai Ying, Liu Shidao, etc., so he fled to Taiyuan alone from Fan Yong's family.
In addition to the fact that the troops were not in the distance and could not be contacted, the two brothers Wang Hua and Wang Zhang followed the troops who fled into Huayin County, and more than 70 were mainly women and children.
Under the leadership of two old men, this group of people pretended to be refugees fleeing famines and settled in Huayin County under the identity. The gold, silver and soft things carried by the escape were limited, so they bought several thatched huts and cottages from the locals, and were unable to buy land to cultivate.
In the early years, everyone either did small business, worked hard to farm, or women weaved cloth and spinned yarn, and could barely make a living.
Ten years ago, the Guanzhong epidemic was in great danger, and the clan elders and several elderly and weak mistresses could not escape the harvest of the epidemic, and they died one after another. They bought medicine to treat the disease and consumed it all.
Both Wang Hua and Wang Zhang were not twenty years old at that time, and they could not take care of so many underage children and sick and weak aunts and sisters by selling coolies. So they took the risk and took a few older children to a cottage in Huayin County.
Wang Hua and Wang Zhang were very skilled in martial arts, and soon became the leader when they entered the village. However, they knew that being a bandit was not a long-term solution. When their young children gradually became adults, they also secretly saved some money and bought land. After they could make ends meet, they led their troops to surrender and were assigned to soldiers during the sweeping of officers and soldiers.
Although people in the world have suffered from joining the army, the Wang family has been generals for several generations, and their children are even more unwilling to spend their whole life in the fields. After Wang Hua and Wang Zhang became an army, the Wang family and their children who grew up and became generals rushed to compete with each other one after another.
The twenty-seven people brought out from Gong County this time by Wang Hua, Wang Zhang and others were all the children of the young Wang family and their family generals, and the other eleven were also Wang Hua, the subordinates recruited by Wang Zhang when he was in Huayin County.
In addition, there are twenty-seven people who continue to stay in Huayin County, mainly women and minor children.
Wang Hua and Wang Zhang have also married and had children, but considering that their life experience cannot be exposed, the Wang family's children, who have gradually grown up in recent years, have been intermarried with their family members and their children, and everyone is still closely united.
When Wang Hua and Wang Zhang talked about the situation of the tribes of Huayin County, Wang Ju was also sighing.
Not counting the offspring of Wang Zhang and his family when they became adults, more than half of the tribesmen who first moved to Huayin County died in these seventeen or eighteen years, which is really apart from heaven and man.
There are reasons for epidemics, but it is mainly caused by displaced.
"We have to arrange for people to go to Huayin County immediately to pick them up." Fan Zongqi was afraid that Zheng Huaizhong and others would not get any advantage from them, so he would send people to seize their families as hostages to threaten them. He wanted to take their troops to Huayin County immediately and move the tribesmen who were still in Huayin County to Tongbai Mountain.
"No hurry!" Xu Huai shook his head and said, "Zheng Huaizhong may come over to ask me for someone, but he shouldn't be able to seize women and children!"
They had a bad fight with Zheng Huaizhong and others today, and the two sides were not dead enemies or mortal enemies after all.
Even Zheng Huaizhong and others felt deep in their hearts that they were loyal to the court, and that their approach could solve the right way to overcome the dangers and difficulties.
Just like so many generals and ministers in the court and the public advocated that they supported the coalition forces to attack Yan, most of them did not come from selfishness and greed that could not be seen.
Therefore, Zheng Huaizhong and others were humiliated today, and they might send people to arrest Wang Hua, Wang Zhang and others for the crime of fleeing the army, but Xu Huai did not think they would spread resentment to women and children.
To go west, you have to pass Hangu Pass and Tongguan. Now they are important military cities with heavy troops. More than a dozen elite soldiers can cross mountains and ridges to bypass these passes, but twenty or thirty women and children go to suffer, and they don’t know that there are not many people going to die on the way.
To put it bluntly, Xu Huai wants Wang Hua now, Wang Zhang and others are in there. Zheng Huaizhong and the others don’t want to do so. At worst, they will have another fight. They are not afraid that Zheng Huaizhong will really be able to fight against them. When King Jing Zhao Tuan, Qian Shangduan and others come to the center to talk about Xiang, they ask Zheng Huaizhong and others to recognize this established fact, and then take the women and children to Tongbai Mountain to be a trivial matter.
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After waiting for more than an hour, there was no movement in Gong County. However, King Jing Zhao Tuan, Qian Shangduan and others left the city and returned to the camp, and sent people to call Xu Huai, Lu Xiong, and Wang Ju.
"This matter has passed. You can follow me to see Your Highness." Xu Huai, Wang Zhang and they went to see King Jing with them.
After entering King Jing's tent, Xu Huai first accused him:
"Without your highness' permission, I took my head privately to humiliate Zheng Huaizhong, Zhou He and others, and Xu Huai was reckless!"
"You have to say in advance, do I allow you to do it, or don't allow you to do it?" King Jing Zhao Tuan smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I didn't expect Wang Qiyong, Wang Boqian and others to be so afraid of the war, but the father believed them - I think it would be even harder for Wang Xiang to live in Bianliang!"
Xu Huai sighed lightly, not knowing what to say.
"They are both from your Wang family?" King Jing Zhao Tuan looked at Wang Hua and Wang Zhang asked.
"Wang Hua, Wang Zhang is the son of my fourth uncle Wang Qiwu. When the edict broke out, they were only twelve or thirteen years old. They were afraid of being implicated and took their clan members to Huayin County to hide their names. Later, due to livelihood, they joined the village, but fortunately they were lost and finally wanted to enter the army and serve the court." Xu Huai called Wang Hua, and Wang Zhang came forward to salute King Jing.
Qian Shang sat down and explained: "Zheng Jingluo originally made you very angry. When he learned that the Wang family was hiding in the army and went out of the city privately, he was furious and wanted to send people to arrest and punish him. His Highness slapped the table in the hall and scolded him, saying that the court had too many of your Wang family. If Zheng Jingluo and others were entangled in such minor details, they would only arouse resentment and ridicule of the world. Zheng Jingluo and others gave up..."
"Thank you, Your Highness!" Xu Huai said sincerely.
Wang Hua, Wang Zhang and the others are a handle, but he must protect him. Without King Jing Zhao Tuan's tough protection, Xu Huai was also worried that he would make a big fuss about this matter, which would put them in a great passive state.
Chapter completed!