Chapter 930 Decisive Battle (End)
In the fourth year of Taiwu, on the eighth day of April, morning.
The sun came out very late today, and Zhang Chong also slept in for the first time. He didn't wake up until Cai Que, who was outside, said that all the generals and princes were waiting outside the tent.
Eight years? Or has it been nine years?
Zhang Chong felt that he hadn't slept so comfortably for a long time.
At the last moment of the decisive battle, he actually fell asleep.
Zhang Chong burst out laughing and asked Guo Zu to bring him robes. Then he dressed up with the help of the generals, and then sat on the main seat in deep thought.
Then, with a loud sound of whips, the generals followed the crown prince Zhang Cheng and respectfully entered the tent.
They bowed to Zhang Chong together, and then each sat on their own mats.
Arriving outside Pengcheng yesterday, Zhang Chong took his son and other generals to observe Sun Jian's military situation outside Futu Temple.
After taking a look, Zhang Chong and others came back.
For Zhang Chong now, his military skills have reached the peak, so he knows full well what Sun Jian's thoughts are about setting up the formation at Futu Temple.
But what's the point?
In the end, you still have to kill someone with a real knife.
Perhaps in Sun Jian's view, he still had a chance, but in fact, everything was doomed since he chose to fight with himself at Futu Temple instead of immediately retreating south.
So there was nothing to say. After returning to the camp, Zhang Chong finished arranging the sequence for tomorrow's battle.
At this time, there were 60,000 people accompanying him to the Pengcheng battlefield, a total of 12 armies.
This time, Zhang Chong still ordered Zhang Nan as the forward. In addition to his own army, his army also subordinated two armies, Ma Chao and Li Hu.
At this time, Zhang Nan's three legions had arrived north of Futu Temple and were ready to enter the battlefield at any time.
Then there are Zhang Nan's two wings. On his left are the two armies of Gao Shun and Zhang Da, and on the right are the two armies of Guo Mo and Li Wu.
After that, there were no more. The battlefield of the Buddha Temple was so big that no matter how many people there were, they couldn’t be arranged.
So these are actually the first batch of participating legions, and they are also the most important participating troops.
Of the next six armies, Wei Zhou, Guo Song, Chen Huan, and Wang Han were in the second sequence, and the remaining Zhu Ling and Luo Gang were the last preparations with their own central guard army.
The above is the formation of Taishan Army.
Not complicated, but enough!
In such a battle, the Xuzhou Army and Yangzhou Army cannot be called the opponents of the Taishan Army.
In the final analysis, these two places are relatively isolated. They mostly fight low-intensity battles, and they still lack awareness of the decisive battles of large corps.
At this time, Zhang Chong was very satisfied to see his son sitting upright like a little adult.
For his son, Zhang Chong actually did not participate in too much education. After all, he had to fight abroad for most of the year, so he still relied on his mother to educate his son.
And he obviously did not marry the wrong person. Zhao Ji was indeed a good match and raised his son well.
Now that his son has gained strength in the army, the generals are quite satisfied with him and he has some prestige.
That's a good start.
The people present today are basically those who have conquered the world with him and are considered entrepreneurial veterans. If his successor can be recognized by these veterans, the transfer of power after his son will be much smoother.
Not to mention Zhang Chong's prestige, what else can he do after his death? Shouldn't it be better to rely on the son's own ability?
Thinking of Zhao Ji, Zhang Chong started to have a headache again.
It's not that the empress has a headache, but that she has a headache with the concubines in the palace. The most thoughtful ones are the Zhen sisters. Both of them are thoughtful and clever, so Zhang Chong can't get angry at all. .
But Zhang Chong also had plans.
That is, the Zhao family's main power is concentrated in the military world, the Zhen family is mainly concentrated in the business world, and the Cai family is mainly concentrated in the cultural world. It is still difficult for the latter to threaten Zhang Cheng's status.
Sometimes it's like this, I'm afraid of having more sons, but I'm also afraid of having fewer sons.
At this time, seeing that all the generals were seated, General Hengchang also brought breakfast.
It is still the old tradition of the Taishan Army. Before the battle, the brothers have breakfast together.
While eating, Zhang Chong suddenly mentioned something:
"Many of you must be thinking that after this battle is over, there will be no more wars to be fought in the future. After all, as the saying goes, 'Conquer the world immediately, rule the world immediately.' So, there must be many people who are working hard. Fight harder today.”
Seeing the king suddenly speaking, everyone put down their chopsticks and listened.
"But actually, you don't have to be so anxious. I can tell you clearly that this is not your last battle, nor is it the last battle of our eldest wife. We will definitely not put the swords and guns in the warehouse and let the horses go to Nanshan."
At this time, Zhuge Gui, Shen Pei and other disciples, as well as Xun You and other advisers could no longer sit still and wanted to stand up to admonish, but Zhang Chong waved his hand to persuade them to stop.
Just listen to Zhang Chong saying to Xun You and others:
"I know what you are going to say. After all, the world has been in chaos for so many years. It must be time to recuperate, and war will inevitably affect the development of the country."
"So the people's livelihood must be suspended, but the military equipment cannot be abolished. Yes, I just want both. As for what method, I will tell you later."
"But now, what I want to say is that this world is very big, far bigger than all of you think, and I know what these places mean to our country. We have the sea to the south and the sea to the east. But what is on the other side of the sea? ”
"And now? If we have the ability, we should go see more and travel around the world more. Of course I know those places are beyond our reach, but we should at least go and see and open a way for our descendants. Only later generations will know what is in this world.”
"In the end I only have one sentence:"
Zhu Wenwu and everyone including Zhang Cheng listened carefully. They seemed to understand that this would be a national policy involving the future of Da Tai.
No one dares to ignore it.
The king is right. The founders of the country originally wanted to pave the way for future generations. They must have a pattern and a vision so that future generations can have an easy path.
Just listen to Zhang Chong's last words:
"If we don't do it when we have the ability, future generations will blame us."
After saying this, Zhang Chong said to everyone:
"That's it. I'll wait for you to come back after the fight to eat the rest of the breakfast. Let's go."
After saying this, the generals stood up quickly, bowed to Zhang Chong, and prepared to leave the tent.
But I heard Zhang Chong say calmly from behind:
"Gentlemen, win this battle for me!"
At this time, everyone turned around, knelt down to the high-ranking King Zhang, and shouted:
"Here!"
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All the generals know the proverb "destroy this morning food" and know that this is a very unlucky thing.
And they entered the battlefield without finishing breakfast, and had to wait until after the battle to eat the rest. This is consistent with this proverb.
But no one thinks this is a thing.
Yes, the King of Chu lost the battle in this way. But who is the King of Chu? How is the Chu army? Is it also comparable to their Taishan Army?
At this time, the eldest wife had no taboos and was so willful.
So after they left the big tent, no one was thinking about "destroying this imperial eclipse". They were all excited and excited about the blueprint drawn by the king.
Having the king is a great blessing for me, a blessing for all the people in the world, and a great blessing for these old brothers.
Some of the complicated thoughts that had been hidden in the minds of the generals were gone at this moment.
Only loyalty to the eldest daughter, and infinite fighting spirit.
As the generals returned to their respective military positions, amidst the mighty drumbeats of the Chinese army, the decisive battle at Futu Temple officially began.
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After the generals dispersed, Zhang Chong took his son to the nest car that was set up. He wanted to take Zhang Cheng to watch the battle and teach him how to be an excellent commander.
Under the Chao chariot, Cai Que, Guo Zu, Li Damu, and Dian Wei led the Hengchang generals to guard them loyally,
After the Chinese army drum beat one hundred and twenty times, Zhang Chong could see the legion flag representing Zhang Nan moving forward.
As Zhang Nan's banner moved first, the flags of the other armies began to move. It seemed that the generals had listened to what he said, and nothing happened to steal the credit.
He and Zhang Cheng just watched from a distance, waiting for the moment when the two armies would engage in battle.
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Because Zhang Cheng was not tall enough, Zhang Chong put him on his neck so that he could see far enough.
Sitting on his father's neck, Zhang Cheng could feel his father's armor-like back and pillar-like neck. This was his father's strength.
This moment was the closest Zhang Cheng got to his father. He felt his father's love and expectations for him.
Zhang Cheng tried his best to hold his head high and looked at the battlefield of the Buddha Temple from a distance.
Everything in front of him made him feel surprised and shocked. The endless apricot-yellow flags in his field of vision filled the wilderness, and the military formations as neat as movable type blocks were moving slowly.
With the sound of more violent horns and war drums, the military formation at the front suddenly shot out black clouds, which should be arrows.
Countless black clouds just hit the Buddha Temple. At this moment, Zhang Cheng seemed to feel that these arrows could fill the small battlefield of the Buddha Temple.
Zhang Cheng didn't know what would happen to the enemy troops in such arrows. The distance was too far.
He only saw that among the continuous arrows, there were countless thunders, which were stone bullets bombarding the enemy formation.
In particular, the stone-discharging cart from nowhere actually moved forward with all its might and bombarded the tallest pagoda of the Buddha Temple.
Zhang Cheng thought, maybe Sun Jian and his son were standing in the pagoda.
Sun Jian also had a son named Sun Ce. His father mentioned him to him several times, saying that among the heroes in Jiangdong, Sun Jian and his son were the most heroic.
Zhang Cheng didn't understand why he called his enemies heroes. In his opinion, the only person in the world who could be called a hero was his father.
This is not only his own idea, he also asked several of his teachers and they said the same.
I just don't know if Sun Ce is sitting on his father's back like him on the pagoda right now, looking at him as well.
Just when Zhang Cheng was still thinking, a sound more violent than the bombing of stone bombs came from the front line. It was the roar of countless people.
Zhang Cheng heard clearly, they were shouting: "Raise the sword, call for peace, just call for the restoration of Qingming in the world!"
This was the first time Zhang Cheng heard such a sound, and he swore that he would never forget this roar.
Then, he saw that the neat grid suddenly shattered.
No, they were not broken, they merged into the sea, the apricot-yellow sea that was more dazzling than the sun in the sky.
At this moment, he heard his father shouting to Uncle Cai below:
"Beat the military drum, and the apricot yellow tree will grow!"
Zhang Cheng knew what the apricot-yellow banner his father was talking about was. It was a large flag with the words "Xingdao for Heaven" written on it. He had played under this flag several times.
He was scolded by his mother for this, and his mother told him that it was the first flag that his father planted when he raised an army, it was his father's spirit, and it was the root of their eldest wife!
Zhang Cheng didn't quite understand this sentence, but his mother was always right. He didn't understand it now but he would understand it in the future.
As his father finished these words, the sound of drums that shook the world suddenly sounded from behind, making Zhang Cheng's ears hurt.
Subconsciously, Zhang Cheng covered his ears.
But his father pulled away his hand and told him:
"Listen carefully, look carefully, and think about what is on your shoulders!"
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Zhang Cheng stopped covering his shoulders. He didn't know what was on his shoulders, but it was him on his father's shoulders.
Ha ha!
I don’t know why, but with just a drum and a flag, Zhang Cheng saw the waves on his side beating harder, and the flag representing his side rushed faster and faster.
Suddenly, people on the front line kept shouting, and they seemed to be shouting at my father.
"The last general, Ma Chao, will kill the enemy general Zhou Tai!"
"The last general Li Hu will kill the enemy general Lu Su!"
"The last general, Guo Mo, killed all the enemy generals."
There are many more such sounds, but the distance is a bit far away, and Zhang Cheng can’t hear them clearly.
With these roars, even if Zhang Cheng didn't understand war, he could tell that the pace of the war had suddenly accelerated.
At this time, the wilderness was filled with yellow waves, and the red color representing the Han army had been compressed outside the Futu Temple.
At this moment, Zhang Cheng suddenly realized something was wrong.
That is, I don't know when, a group of red shadows suddenly appeared on the right wing of their formation. Led by a large flag with the word "Sun", they rushed towards the direction of their nest car.
In front of these Han cavalry, there were only about 5,000 Zhu Ling's army blocking them. At this moment, the banner of "Practice for Heaven" was hanging high to provide direction for the enemy troops.
They rushed straight towards Dahu, faster and faster!
Looking at the surging enemy cavalry, Zhang Cheng's face turned pale. He grabbed his father's golden crown and was worried.
Cai Que, who was below, had led General Hengchang to organize a defense line near the camp. Hundreds of crossbows were set up, aiming at Sun Jian's cavalry.
Sitting on his father's neck, Zhang Cheng's entire mind was attracted to his right side.
I saw the red cavalry carving into our own army formation like an arrow, and then rushing faster and faster. But for some reason, the arrow was very fast, but it could never break through the yellow square formation.
At this time, the phalanx was like an iron plate. No matter how hard the arrows struck it, it would not break apart.
Suddenly, Zhang Cheng heard the shouts there, and the warriors of the Taishan Army seemed to be shouting.
What are they shouting?
"Thanks to me, King Zhang, for peace!"
"Thanks to me, King Zhang, for peace!"
"Thanks to me, King Zhang, for peace!"
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The sound became louder and louder, and Zhang Cheng's face turned red. He couldn't help shouting to his father:
"Father, I want to shout."
My father was still so indifferent, and his reply to himself was:
"Shout if you want, shout your voice to your enemies!"
Encouraged by his father, Zhang Cheng imitated his father's example, raised his middle finger and shouted:
"Do it!"
Father laughed below.
And as he roared, Zhang Cheng saw the red arrow suddenly disintegrate.
Yes, it fell apart right before that rock.
Then, Zhang Cheng heard this voice:
"At the end of the battle, Dian Wei defeated the enemy general Sun Ce."
Sun Ce is actually here.
After some time, Zhang Cheng heard another voice. This voice was very young, but it was crying like a phoenix. He just listened:
"The last general, Chen Cheng, killed the enemy chief Sun Jian!"
Zhang Cheng heard this sound very clearly, and this young general named Chen Cheng was also imprinted in Zhang Cheng's heart.
The enemy general Sun Jian died like this? Is this the decisive battle won?
But at this moment, Zhang Cheng still had another thought, and that was why it wasn't Zhu Ling who was shouting? He saw that the people who had just shouted were the generals of various armies.
Zhang Cheng's doubts were not solved until after the war, when he followed his father to the right army to collect the fallen soldiers.
The rock that Sun and his son could not break through before was exactly where Zhu Ling was.
General Zhu refused to retreat, and finally stabbed his own body with a spear. He fought until the last moment, and by that time his blood had dried up.
Seeing the scene of General Zhu still standing even before his death, Zhang Cheng seemed to understand what was on his shoulders.
Father, I will do it well.
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On New Year's Day, the fourteenth year of Taiwu, everything was renewed.
In Yecheng, everything is so colorful.
Ten years have passed since the world became stable. In these ten years, there is no trace of chaos in the world. The people of Datai are so confident.
They should also be confident that in just ten years, Da Tai's martial arts and martial arts have far surpassed those of the Han Dynasty and reached an unprecedented peak.
The common people couldn't tell how high the peak was. They just felt that there were more and more goods in Yecheng, and novel things were emerging in an endless stream, and even some weird foreigners could see them from time to time.
There is also good news this New Year's Day. It is said that the treasure ship developed by the Taipei Institute of Technology for eight years has finally been launched. Those people are also smart. If they insist on launching it on New Year's Day, isn't it just a gift to His Majesty?
However, those who had seen the treasure ship told them when they came back how huge the ship was, almost as big as a mountain.
It seems that the people of Yejing are getting more and more bragging. It is as big as a mountain, so how can it float?
But it’s not impossible. After all, there seem to be too many impossibilities over the years.
When the people of Yejing talked about their knowledge in the market, what they didn't know was that today, a young man came to Yejing.
His name is Zhuge Liang, and this is not his first visit to Ye Jing.
But this time it was different. This time he was selected as a local official and was about to report there.
This was his first step in serving in the central government. His father had retired a few years ago. In this central government with complex interpersonal relationships, he had no advantage over others.
But Zhuge Liang is confident that he can do well here as well.
At the same time, when Zhuge Liang was curiously looking at the city of Yejing, which he had not seen for five or six years, Zhang Chong was reading an urgent military report in the Taiping Palace.
The contents of the military newspaper related to the Yinshan Pasture. Local officials reported that due to the continued degradation of the pasture, the herdsmen who had just settled there for three years were sneaking their livestock into the depths of the grassland.
Therefore, the local military officials asked the central government to allow them to lead the cavalry deep into the grassland to pursue and recover the dead.
Zhang Chong frowned and placed the military report in another place, where there were already seven or eight memorials stacked up. It seemed that they were also sent from the north.
In recent years, the imperial court has spent a lot of money and food in the north in order to allow the grassland herders to settle down.
But it seems that human power cannot stop God's will. On that grassland that cannot be cultivated, it seems that no matter how many resources are invested, it has no effect, and the herdsmen always have to run away.
Chase and run, run and chase, everything is like a ghost beating a wall, the cycle continues.
At this time, Zhang Chong has realized that the grassland problem does not seem to be solved by his generation. Da Tai's future should be in the south, in the ocean.
However, we can’t ignore it. It seems that the campaign of recruiting grassland heroes will continue and cannot be stopped.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chong was about to give these similar memorials and instructions.
Suddenly, his heart moved and he couldn't help but look to the east.
Through the Yuyu Qiong Tower and the fireworks market, he seemed to see a young man walking into Ye Jing.
With an inexplicable intuition, Zhang Chong seemed to understand how his political ideals should be passed on.
This old lady’s story is not over yet.
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Written at the end of the book:
After typing the three words (complete book), I felt empty in my heart, as if I had completed a stage in my life.
For the past three years, I have been creating such a story every day, writing about myself, everyone, and some ideals in the story, but now these are all over.
After finishing this book, I will probably take a break and visit other places in my motherland.
I'm a little embarrassed. Zhang Chong was born in Mount Tai, and most of his stories take place in the north, but I have never seen it. This is a pity.
Now I have to make amends for my regrets.
Of course, there are regrets in this book. This is my first book, and I have many shortcomings. But to the last readers, you are my family. It is you who tolerate me and support me until now.
If this book touches you at all, please don't forget this story written by me, an author with the pen name Crazy Chen.
After reading this, I also hope you can join my QQ group (768760727), where our relationship is not limited to readers and authors. I feel that everyone is friends, brothers, and people who dream together.
As for the second book, I have already conceived it. It will be a story that happened in the late Tang Dynasty. The story will continue my style, but the shortcomings of this book will not be continued, haha.
I am confident that I can bring you a more interesting and real story, as well as a more mature one.
Finally, I wish everyone who loves me a Happy New Year! In the new year, let’s continue to start a new story!