"A young man with great ambitions has longed for the world, but now he is making plans for future generations." [Send to Liu Jinqing]
The third day of the tenth month of the fourth year of the Han dynasty.
Runan, Pingyu.
Pingyu is a county in Runan, located to the north of the Qishui River, with a flat terrain. Its terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, making it the key to the northern gate of the Chu State during the Warring States Period.
In the west of the earth stands the shadow of a mountain like a dragon's spine, like a long and difficult-to-see dragon winding between the sky and the earth. The dragon's spine is covered with dark red sunset, and the sky is filled with a rich autumn atmosphere.
In a few minutes, it will be completely dark.
Horse hooves stepped on the hard dirt road. The team from the east braved the cold autumn wind. Three or four people dispersed in a fan shape and galloped towards the black mountains in the distance. They stepped on a undulating slope, and suddenly their eyes were opened.
As soon as the light came on, the seemingly within reach of the mountains seemed to be alive. At this time, they quietly took a step back and moved a distance away from them. A larger plain and mountain forest spread out in front of them. Although a spacious road
But the dilapidated trail moved like a giant python.
The mountains are still so far away, as if they will never end.
"Put your butt down! Don't raise your butt!" One of the leaders, a middle-aged man with a thick beard and one missing eye, looked fiercely at a young professor not far from him who was holding the reins tightly.
Riding experience: "Yes, lower your body and tighten your legs!"
This conversation had unclear meaning. I knew they were riding horses, but I didn’t know what they thought they were riding.
The young man gritted his teeth and held on to the reins tightly. His body gradually maintained the same frequency as the horse's body rose and fell.
"Hahaha, I can ride a horse! I can ride a horse! Did you see, I can ride a horse!" The gentleness and reserve that had been faked since childhood on the handsome face of the young man were suddenly washed away by ecstasy, revealing his original rude and bold temperament.
.The vulgar words are incompatible with his delicate appearance, but at this moment, there is a trace of harmony.
"Amon, good job!" A scout shook his fist at him.
"Shut up!" The one-eyed man lowered his voice, but his expression was still vicious: "It's no longer decent to let you sneak out with me. If you don't look like a scout, you should get back as soon as possible, and we will see who will come next.
How dare you take you out!"
The young man immediately shut up, but his face was filled with excitement and eagerness to announce it to the whole world.
"Amon, what should you do if your brother-in-law is a monster?" The one-eyed man was amused by this childish look and couldn't help but ask.
"I can't blame it. I just like fighting! It's great to be a soldier and fight. It's much easier than forcing me to study all day long. He always says this is not good and that is not good. I want to give him a good result!"
He said enthusiastically.
"Well said! It's not a waste of time for me to take you out." At this time, the one-eyed man did not see any movement. The three cavalrymen in front of him dispersed voluntarily, performing their duties as scouts in front of them in obscurity.
The one-eyed man whipped the young man's mount lightly on the buttocks and shouted softly: "Why don't you learn from me!"
The young man, who had been fascinated by the exciting military action of scouting for a long time, immediately followed the instructions happily.
A young man in his twenties was chasing after him on horseback. He looked at the young man with admiration and said to the one-eyed man: "This kid is so good at riding a horse for the first time. He followed us all the way and didn't fall. I won't be able to protect him in the future."
He’s a general!”
"Fifteen years old, you're not young anymore." The one-eyed man slowly slowed down his horse. He was extremely pleased to see the young disciples' faces flush with excitement. He excitedly threw them behind and rode ahead.
The young man and the one-eyed man walked side by side, and they all said with emotion: "It's a pity that Deng Dubo's family can't bear to leave this brother-in-law. I heard that his family has several volumes copied from the Luoyang Stone Classic, and they regard it as a treasure. I want to
Let this kid find a future in it."
"Fucking future!" The one-eyed man had a hot temper. He spat, turned his head, stared at the young man with his remaining eye, and said disdainfully: "No matter how great the truth is, it doesn't matter.
The knife works! Especially in this world, the only ones who can survive are those of us who hold knives. Those scholars who died of starvation and illness on the roadside, how many of them did you see on the way here?"
"You took him to sneak out this time to visit the enemy, and then carefully returned to lead the army." The young man said lightly.
These words had no deterrent effect on the one-eyed man. He curled his lips and said: "Song Ding, don't threaten me with this. Even if Uncle Du wants to punish me afterwards, I will accept it. Isn't it just twenty or thirty military sticks?"
?How can it hurt when a knife cuts through my forehead?" His closed eyelids trembled imperceptibly, and then he said: "This guy is a general material. I started killing people when I was his age.
Even though the Dubbo family is raising him like a child... I really can't bear to part with such a good seedling."
"Then you don't need to worry about being a corps commander." Song Ding rolled his eyes and added helplessly: "I'm not the brother-in-law you pretend to be."
"I can't worry about it?" Cheng Dang stared at his only eye with a fierce aura.
"It's a pity that you are worried about the wrong thing." Seeing Chengdang's unkind expression, Song Ding quickly said: "Do you think that by taking him as a scout once, you can get Uncle Dub's change of heart when you go back? That's not a good idea. Uncle Dub already knew this.
You will bring him out this time, so I pointed you this way deliberately. Think about it carefully, Zhang Chao's army is in the southwest, and our army is marching, so we should send scouts to the southwest. Why do we just want to take you?
Assigned to the northwest?"
"This is a post road. It's prudent to send scouts here. I'm waiting to break the siege of General Pingyu Sun. Of course, we must pay attention to all aspects along the way." The more Cheng Dang talked, the more unsure he was. He had always been loyal to his superiors.
The order was carried out unswervingly, but now there is a hint of uncertainty. After all, although this road is one of the shortcuts to Yingchuan, it is too remote. Is it really necessary to send scouts here?
?
"Today I came out for a visit an hour and a half early." Song Ding stared at the young man who was getting more and more skilled on the horse in the distance, and said in a bitter tone: "We were the only ones in the army who were ordered by Dubler to leave the camp early, and just in time
Soon after we came out, everyone in the army started heading south, and now they are probably about to attack Zhang Chao's camp."
"What do you think, General? Our army only has a thousand men!" Chengdang said in disbelief.
"Zhang Chao only has six or seven thousand people under his command." Song Ding wanted to compare the number and prove that there was not a huge disparity in numbers, but he couldn't convince himself, so he had to say another way: "We are all the old troops of General Polu, so we can only serve as one of them."
Five is not a problem, not to mention Zhang Chao has no reputation or ability, so I think this strategy is feasible." : :
They were originally veterans of Sun Jian's army. After Sun Jian's death, they were recruited by Yuan Shu. It was not until this time that Sun Xiang and Sun Ben suffered a setback in Runan that Sun Jian's son Sun Ce was able to invite his father's old troops back to the north to assist. After sneaking around day and night,
Everyone tried to cover up the situation and managed to get here. The only way to solve the siege of Pingyu was to send out surprise troops to sneak attack Zhang Chao's camp.
Cheng Dang did not question this absolutely correct military action, but why he deliberately bypassed them.
"This is what Uncle Dub meant. He tried his best to prevent this brother-in-law from going to the battlefield, so he specifically advised that person and wanted to send someone else to visit the northwest during the war to be prepared." Song Ding said this, and suddenly
Jian Chengdang's eyes were terrifying, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart: "Don't look at me like that. I had already been warned by Dub when I eavesdropped on Dub and Army Sima talking about this matter and was discovered by him.
."
"Damn!" Thinking of his passing by Da Gong, Cheng Dang became furious and blurted out: "If I had known, I wouldn't have gotten close to that kid!"
"Regret it?" Song Ding said with a teasing smile.
Cheng Dang calmed down and thought for a while, then said: "It's not that big of a deal. Either there will be no battles to fight in the future, or I will be tricked by Uncle Dub, which makes me feel uncomfortable."
Song Ding smiled helplessly, and was about to persuade him to look on the bright side in everything, and establish a good relationship with this boy, and Uncle Dub would naturally benefit from them in the future. But as soon as the words came to his lips, he suddenly heard someone in front of him
The young man was shouting and hurried back on horseback with three other scouts.
"What's wrong?" Chengdang suddenly became alert, and his muscles suddenly tightened, like a lion on alert at all times.
Dozens of cavalrymen suddenly chased out from the end of the road. Sand and dust rose behind them, and the horses and men neighed. It was impossible to tell how many there were.
Chengdang murmured in disbelief: "How is it possible...they, where did they get so many cavalry!"