General Ji said, "I have never been to the Copper Coin Bridge. I followed the king to fight, and the farthest I have been is Pengcheng. The Copper Coin Bridge... is about two thousand miles away."
Judging from the lady's affirmative expression, even if it were two thousand miles away, the king would still go there. The wise husband Mo Ruowu
Judging from his wife's narration, Wang went to Pengcheng almost immediately. Considering his feelings for his wife, it is not unusual for him to do this. This is also the difference between him and Liu Bang.
When the Chu and Han Dynasties were fighting fiercely in Pengcheng, Liu Bang was chased by Xiang Yu and fled. He thought the car was running slowly, so on the way, he kicked his son out of the car and then kicked his wife out.
world of difference
The homeland is forever separated, even a jar of pickled mustard will become a dream that is difficult to realize. The trend of King Tian seems to be clearer.
People talked a lot, analyzed the situation again, and became more convinced that King Tian went to Tongqian Bridge
I immediately made arrangements for the next step. General Ji and I would go to Tongqian Bridge. Generals Su and Meng would be responsible for completing the finishing work of the cave project. They would be on strict alert and would set off just waiting for us to receive Wang's return.
Without further ado, General Ji and I prepared dry food for the horses, mounted our horses, whipped our whips and galloped southward.
Before leaving, I told General Meng that we would keep traveling along the official road. If the king comes back halfway and doesn't have to wait for us, we can follow the steps I told you before, blast open the water hole, sail out two ships, and head south along the coastal road.
, pick us up at the south bank of Qiantang Bay in Kuaiji County
It is now mid-September, and the road is green and lush. From time to time, there are scattered villages, hidden among the fields and forests. Yellow-haired children are screaming and running, chickens and dogs are hearing each other. The chaos is just beginning to be cured, but it shows signs of being in ruins. I and I
General Ji didn't care to take a closer look. We only have one goal in mind, the Copper Coin Bridge.
On the first day, we left Jimo, Jiaoxian, Langye, Juxian, Ganyu, and Quxian behind us. The two horses ran so hard that their legs were trembling, and they were spitting saliva. In total, they had run more than five hundred miles.
There, but we didn’t meet the king. In the early Han Dynasty, there was not much transportation. The so-called official road was actually the only road. Someone beating a horse and galloping on the road was an eye-catching thing in itself, but we didn’t see the king of Tian.
Now we are already in Donghai County. As we continue to walk forward, it is already dark. General Ji said, "If King Tian stays overnight and we pass by on horseback, wouldn't it be a missed opportunity?"
I thought so, so I made an agreement with General Ji, and we went forward. When we met the town store, we immediately stopped there. We inquired carefully and found out that we couldn't meet the king. Then we went forward and we ate some dry food and let the horses rest for a while.
Keep on riding and galloping
Donghai County has crisscrossed rivers and tidal flats all over the place, giving the scenery of a water town. The bright moon seems to be waxing and waning. It moves with us in the paddy fields on the roadside. After walking for more than 200 miles, we did not encounter a decent shop.
Asanga, we sat on the roadside to rest
Suddenly, dozens of black shadows appeared in the moonfield, without covering their faces. They were holding knives and sticks. They surrounded us. The leader in the middle was holding a shining steel knife. He looked us up and down without saying anything. I didn't see it.
After passing this formation, but knowing that this was a path cut, the robber didn't know how to deal with it, so he looked at Jida
But I saw him slowly stand up and make some slanderous remarks to the leader. I didn't understand a word of it. I said to myself, General Ji, we are already looking for the king and are already very angry. You old man has no time to entangle with them or fight with them.
, or run away, it’s better to get away quickly. Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly saw General Ji swaying, as fast as lightning, and grabbed a person next to the leader’s face!
The man was suddenly attacked. He raised the wooden stick in his hand to fight in a hurry. The leader saw it and moved his hand. He swung his sword from behind and attacked him. General Ji was in danger.
Before I could see clearly, the stick was already in General Ji's hand, and he swung it at the person who threw the stick. Just as he was dodging, it was a fake move, and the head of the stick hit the leader's wrist holding the knife.
With a sound of "Oops", the leader's steel knife fell to the ground. Only then did the others react. They surrounded us, and two or three people came towards me. General Ji hit me, and with a hook of his foot, he kicked the knife into my head.
underfoot
General Ji's body posture and footwork just now were completely different from his usual calmness. He didn't fight or fight, he just moved around under his feet. He was always able to pass through the thicket of swords and sticks when it seemed inevitable.
And every time a move was made, someone would fall down and fall out of the battle circle.
Two people came at me with sticks and slashed at me. I was inspired by the general and did not dodge or dodge. I faced the sticks coming down and slashed at me with a knife. The man was stunned and realized that the knife had already arrived. This desperate move was beyond his imagination.
Unexpectedly, half of the four fingers holding the stick were cut off by the knife. He screamed and retreated with trembling hands. The other person was stunned and was kicked out more than ten feet by me. He couldn't stand up.
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen people were brought down to the ground. After getting up, they disappeared instantly. I admired General Ji even more. He said lightly, "You are not afraid of thousands of troops, but only an inch of iron. So I will give you the knife."
This is to make you more courageous, these thieves are easy to deal with."
After years of fighting, the folk customs have become increasingly tough. It was inconvenient for us to stay for a long time, so we mounted our horses again and walked slowly in the night.
General Ji said a formula for close combat, which benefited me a lot:
"He fiercely dodges the spinning top, hits his hands and neck horizontally and vertically. If he retreats, his moves change, he staggers forward and then kicks the upper part of his chin to escape. The lower part cannot escape with a broken leg. If he walks around in a circle, it is difficult for the wasp to sting his heart."
escape"
This is actually the ancient version of guerrilla warfare! I said to General Ji, "The beauty of this paragraph lies in four words."
General Ji asked, "What four characters?"
"Sound in the east and attack in the west"
General Ji looked at me carefully and said, "Ruzi can be taught."
There was no more entanglement later. We walked and talked along the way. Unconsciously, we had walked more than 200 miles. There was a big town in front of us, named Shouzhang, which would be Huaiyin in later generations. The day was about to dawn. We found a small shop and there were more and more pedestrians on the street.
, I can understand the shouts of the Dandan vendors, because I will go to college in Xuzhou, and the language here is very similar to that there. Now Xuzhou is not called Xuzhou, but Pengcheng.
While chatting, we watched the people passing by on the street, hoping to spot Wang. General Ji told me that two hundred miles to the west from here is Gaixia.
I trembled all over, a hero has lost his power, and his children are heartbroken. As soon as I mentioned this name, General Ji and I were speechless for a long time. Where are the heroes of the ages? Where are they now?
We each changed horses in the town and continued galloping. To put it simply, we passed Guangling in the afternoon. I don’t know where Guangling is, but looking at the terrain, it is undoubtedly Yangzhou. We crossed the Yangtze River by ferry. This is the Yi Zheng of later generations.
We arrived at Qiantang the next night. We had no intention of watching the tide. We only thought about Wang. One hundred and seventy miles east on the northern slope of Kuaiji Mountain is the Tongqian Bridge.
Tongqian Bridge lies on Siming Mountain in the south, connects with Fenghua and Shengzhou, connects with Shangyu in the west, and borders Cixi in the north. The Hemudu ancient cultural site is here, and humans settled there as early as 7,000 years ago.
The pickled mustard in Tongqianqiao actually comes from one village, Zhangjia Village.