Chapter 671 Cheng Yu
But He Jin suddenly stood up, and then he covered his forehead and shouted:
"This general suddenly remembered that when I passed by the Wild King before, I pulled down a jade Ruyi. This was given to us by the late emperor. We cannot throw it away."
After saying that, He Jin jumped off the frame nimbly, and then, surrounded by a group of shogunate knights, he ran towards the Yewang City in the south.
This scene fell in the eyes of the generals and staff present, and they were all dumbfounded.
General, even if you want to abandon the army and run away, there is no need to find such a ridiculous reason. What kind of jade is Ruyi? Putting aside whether there is such a thing, it would be too ridiculous to say that it was given by the late emperor himself.
Wasn't the late emperor's flight to the west the door of Hulao Pass opened by you, the general? Will the king and his ministers get along with each other now?
But the people present felt that it was ridiculous, but they unanimously chose to chase He Jin.
Some of the shameless ones came up with excuses, while others who were already frightened called their servants and drove their carriages all the way south.
The minister who cried out that we were ghosts in a foreign land and could not be buried in Beimang did not even react when he lost one of his shoes.
Compared with the middle and lower-class Northern Army warriors who died in Xu Kingdom, these noble ministers with thousands of years of history are simply as lowly as dirt.
Just as He Jin and a group of officials were leaving in confusion, Zhang Chou's soldiers came over.
This man was Zhang Chou's younger brother. He joined the army as soon as he reached the imperial examination. Originally, his brother asked him to join the Chinese army because he wanted to save his younger brother's life and pass it on to the Zhang family in Kyoto.
But when this man saw the generals abandoning the army and fleeing, his whole body seemed to be struck by lightning, and he was stunned.
Many of the ministers who usually needed support to even walk jumped on their horses. Although they were trembling, they ran like the wind.
The young man of the Zhang family has just entered this glitzy Kyoto social circle, but he has not been corrupted yet, and his only thought is to revive the Han Dynasty.
But seeing the elders who used to talk freely and tell the country what to do, running around like mice, some good things in the heart of the young man of the Zhang family collapsed.
He smiled miserably, and then ran towards his brother's military formation without looking back. There, his brother was still holding on, he... must be there!
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He Jin's family is very well off. Even though he is often ridiculed by the upper class as a butcher, in fact this is just one of the many customers of He Jin's family.
In Wan County, Nanyang, where there are many distinguished relatives, the wealth of He Jin's family is also among the best. It was precisely because of their huge wealth that his family was able to bribe people like Shi Changshi to firmly support the He family in the palace.
Therefore, He Jin's riding skills were very good, but it was only after he had been in a high position that his riding skills deteriorated a bit.
At first, He Jin was a little stiff when riding the horse, and his body could not find the rhythm that would rise and fall with the horse. But the body’s memory often lasts longer than people think.
After a while, about a hundred meters long, He Jin found the feeling, and his horse speed became faster and faster.
The shogunate warriors surrounding He Jin were riding horses and driving the teams and carriages on the road.
In order to clear the road for He Jin, the sergeants pushed the cart to the side of the road, and then looked at the shogunate's samurai riding past in confusion and confusion.
On the battlefield, people's vision is very narrow. Their judgment on the battlefield has always been based on the reaction of the general and listening to the sounds on the battlefield.
Originally, there were sounds of killings in the north, and these ordinary grassroots officials were worried and their eyes were dark. So he was helpless and asked the veterans in the team if something serious had happened.
People who have never been on the battlefield only have imagination about the battlefield, so they will overthink things and directly scare themselves. But the veterans are different. They have been tempered in their long war career, and that is not to panic.
They were used to fighting bloody battles at the front and sitting on the ground eating at the back.
In their understanding, everything that happens on the battlefield has nothing to do with them. They only need to look at their team's flag.
When the flag is up, stand up and fight; when the flag is down, sit down and rest.
That's all.
Therefore, these veterans were the ballast stone of the army, but just when they had almost stabilized the morale of the grassroots, they saw the general's cavalry escorting a man hurriedly south.
Although no canopy was erected, who else could the man in the middle be, He Jin?
So, amid the silence of the officials, He Jin and his party suddenly headed south.
Protected by these loyal warriors, He Jin quickly rushed out of the long army. He did not know how long he rode his horse. After they could vaguely see the city in front of them, they barely breathed a sigh of relief.
It was only then that He Jin looked back from his horse and looked at the Kwantung Army that had disappeared.
He understood that the Kwantung Army was finished. Without him, this army would surely perish in that Qinshui wilderness.
Along with these people, the great achievements of Kanto were also ruined. He knew that without this vital force, he would only be able to survive even if he returned to Kyoto.
He knows all this, and he also wants to stay and fight to the death with the Taishan Army! Just like he always said before.
But he didn't know what was going on. Those legs just wouldn't obey his orders and he was just so scared.
Thinking of this, He Jin felt sad.
That's all, it's better to live than to die. Let's go to Wild King City first and breathe slowly. We'll talk about what happens next.
Just like that, He Jin said to the surrounding tooth soldiers:
"Enter the Wild King City first, change horses and leave the city immediately."
These knights who followed He Jin still maintained their respect for the general. When they heard He Jin's orders, they subconsciously followed them.
So, a group of knights came to the Wild King's castle.
Yewang Castle is the bridgehead of Kyoto's defense. It has been guarding the main transportation route from Shangdang to Gyeonggi, so the city is strong.
He Jin originally asked the knight in front to call the door. He knew he was ugly and hid behind to save his dignity.
But soon, he realized something was wrong. I heard the shogunate knights in front kept yelling and cursing over there, but there was no movement in the Wild King's Castle for a long time.
Just when He Jin was feeling uneasy, he saw the more than twenty shogunate knights in front of him suddenly dispersed in a rush. There was a cavalryman who kept restraining them, but he still couldn't stop them.
There was no choice but to run over by himself. As soon as he came, he said angrily to He Jin:
"General, the Wild King's City is not open. No matter what we say, they will not admit that you are here, General."
How can He Jin, who has been fighting politics for a long time, not understand at this time?
He swayed, barely holding on, and then turned his head and asked his subordinate general He Huan:
"How much dry food do we have now and how long can we last?"
He Huan calmed down and said:
"I can barely survive for two days."
He Jin pretended to be cool and said with a smile:
"Two days of food is enough. In the past, when Guangwu fled Jixian County in embarrassment, he was also so hungry that he ate cold food in the wild. Now that we are like this, how can we know what will happen in the future?"
The story He Jin told did not inspire everyone's confidence, especially when He Huan added:
"But I'm going to run wildly on my horse. The horse's power is exhausted. If I don't change it, I'm afraid I won't be able to reach Kyoto."
At this time, He Jin was speechless. He waited outside the Wild King City for a while, but seeing that the city gate was still closed, he left in despair.
At this time, they can only run towards He Yang. If there is any clan general there, his loyalty can be guaranteed, right?
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After He Jin and a group of military officials abandoned the army and fled, the Kwantung Army from all directions was still resisting inertly.
But the real rout didn't begin until their soldiers sent news that He Jin had abandoned them.
At this time, Pan Zhang and Li Fu were overjoyed. After seeing countless Han army officials fleeing with their flags down, they were finally sure that a huge wealth had fallen on their heads.
With two armies of ten thousand people, they defeated the main force of the Kwantung Army. With these military exploits, Pan and Li would become the biggest contributors to this battle, and they achieved all this effortlessly.
So the most satisfying pursuit of death began.
Even though there were still some elite Han army camp leaders holding their positions to cover the retreat of the friendly forces, these people were already meaningless in the context of the entire rout.
At this time, in the vast Qinshui wilderness, Taishan troops were everywhere chasing the Han army. They used the ring-headed knives in their hands to massacre everyone who dared to continue taking the knife.
There was chaos everywhere, and everyone was trying to escape.
But at this time, the weakness of infantry compared to cavalry was exposed, that is, it was really difficult for infantry to escape.
There is an ironic joke in the military that you never have to worry about not being able to escape, because there is always an infantryman to take care of you.
In such despair, countless people have given up their desire to survive. They lie on the ground all the way away, kowtowing to the rushing Taishan army.
But what awaited them was not a butcher's knife, but strands of hemp rope.
These hemp ropes were all thrown down by Taishan's army, and they left directly afterwards.
The Han soldiers looked at the hemp ropes on the ground and immediately tied up the robes quickly. At this time, the hemp ropes that broke as soon as they were pulled were already the life-saving straw for these people.
They did not dare to express their anger and stared at the land in front of them, listening to the sound of galloping horses with fear.
It wasn't until the sound of galloping horses became weaker and weaker that they raised their heads slightly and breathed a sigh of relief.
But at this moment, what sounded like a scolding with a Hebei accent rang in their ears, and they just listened:
"What are you looking at? Hurry up and come with me. What's so unlucky about me that I have to be separated to pull you all away? Otherwise, in this battle, we can just catch a few and be promoted to the second level. How can I give up to the sudden rider now? Help your grandson get these!”
The prisoners present could hear the impatience in this tone, and they didn't dare to hesitate at all, and hurriedly stood up.
One team tripped over each other and fell to the ground because they got up too quickly.
After these people finally stood up amidst the curses, they saw that the person scolding them was an official in an apricot military uniform. He had a beard on his face and looked at them expectantly.
It was as if he was just waiting for someone to break out in resistance so that he could gain some military merit.
It was precisely because of the expectant and evil-minded Han Jun that he didn't dare to move at all.
In this way, just one Taishan Army suppressed almost a hundred Han soldiers and returned.
And such absurd scenes abound here.
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Pan Zhang came back with his sudden cavalry glumly. None of the soldiers dared to challenge his general along the way. Everyone could see that Pan Zhang had evil fire in his heart.
Indeed, when he learned that the puppet Han general He Jin had abandoned his army and ran away, Pan Zhang immediately took his most elite cavalry and replaced them with new horses to pursue him.
But in the end, they found nothing but a group of ministers who were as fat as pigs.
It was also the first time for Pan Zhang to see the ministers of the Han family. When he saw that these people's faces were full of wrinkles and decay, but they were still covered with powder, he felt a chill.
This group of neither men nor women has brought our vigorous man to this stage.
It really deserves to be killed.
Just like this, without catching He Jin and getting these rubbish, one can imagine Pan Zhang's mood.
But when he came over, he saw Li Fu grinning beside a huge and gorgeous chariot, touching this side and moving there, just like a country bumpkin.
Not to mention, Pan Zhang and Li Fu are a perfect match. One of them is a water bandit on the river, and the other is a Shanliao on Mount Meng. They are both marginalized groups of the Han Dynasty, and now they both have a bright future.
Pan Zhang couldn't see Li Fu's ignorant look and cursed:
"Old Li, you look so ignorant, aren't you just a chariot? That's it?"
Li Fu pulled Pan Zhang mysteriously and whispered:
"Don't talk nonsense, this is Chengyu? Have you seen it?"
At this time, Pan Zhang really exposed his country bumpkin nature. He asked in confusion:
"What is Chengyu? That's it?"
When Li Fu heard this, he looked Pan Zhang up and down and said secretly:
"This old Pan usually wears gold and silver. He looks like a man of five or six. I didn't expect that he is also a clay hammer."
So, Li Fu taught:
"This thing is the chariot and horse of the emperor of the Han Dynasty. Only the emperor can use it! Do you think it is rare or not? Maybe Emperor Guangwu rode this chariot to conquer all directions."
Hearing Li Fu's words, Pan Zhang was also startled, and then he looked at the car carefully.
But with the blessing of the emperor of the Han family, this Chengyu was really different in Pan Zhang's eyes.
In fact, regardless of how people like Taishan Army treat the Han Dynasty, in fact, these people are very superstitious about the authority of the Han Emperor.
In the eyes of these people at the lowest level, the Han family, which has been in power for four hundred years, is undoubtedly the god on earth and the true blood of the heavenly family.
Many people still believe that the decline of the world to this point has nothing to do with the emperor of the Han Dynasty. It is the fault of those Qingliu and eunuchs.
Therefore, in the eyes of Pan and Li, just an ordinary ride has some kind of mystery and represents a kind of authority.
After all, this is what the emperor uses!
By this time, both of them looked at Chengyu and stopped talking, and the atmosphere was a bit strange.
At this time, Li Fu said:
"Then Butcher He is also brave. He directly drove the emperor's chariot and used it as his own carriage. This is really, tsk tsk!"
When Pan Zhang heard this, he was so angry that he cursed:
"Damn it, let that grandson escape quickly. If we catch him again, Lao Li, think about how great our fortunes will be!"
Li Fu curled his lips, took one last look at the carriage, and then waved his hand to let it be installed.
This thing is presented to the king.
But at this moment, Pan Zhang suddenly jumped on the chariot, danced for a while, and then hummed:
"This is just, very ordinary!"