Delong

Chapter 154 Floating Horse Walk (1)

Zhang Xing looked back at the White Wolf Fortress that was still within sight. Over there, the flag of the Great Wei was still roaring fiercely in the winter wind. Then he looked at the armored bandits who suddenly appeared in the middle of the road, and how they blocked the road behind them. The trees, and the steel crossbow clearly visible behind the trees, couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

His Royal Highness Qi Wang seemed a little confused, and his self-righteous sharpness that day was only aimed at Zhang Xing, so he might have to pretend to be dazed on weekdays.

Qin Bao, on the other hand, looked at Zhang Xing with some embarrassment.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xing just turned to look at him: "Didn't you have it when you came?"

"No." Qin Bao said something, but his face was embarrassed. "When I came, although there was an explanation, but Shengjia hadn't left Taiyuan yet, everyone thought there would be more words..."

Zhang Xing nodded, Qin Bao actually said that when they met.

Sheng Jia almost escaped from Yunnei, not to mention that the Guanfeng Temple had been burned long ago, and he didn't have any cars, he really just traveled early and stayed late, and arrived in Taiyuan in a hurry.

Then as soon as he arrived at the place, he announced a new reward method, the so-called [-] honors plus [-] special honors. As a result, it aroused dissatisfaction among the soldiers of the five accompanying troops, and some officers even took Wei Chi's death as an issue. , Said that there are treacherous ministers in the court, who want to kill Prime Minister Su Wei.

Although the matter was immediately suppressed, the court immediately changed its statement, adding [-] special honors to the [-] honors, and immediately transferred back to the Eastern Capital to let everyone go home for the New Year.

So far, the forbidden army has stopped the turmoil on the surface, but it is still making trouble in private.

And according to what I just learned from Bailangsai, Shengjia has left Taiyuan and continued to return to the south. Zhang Xing and others thought that things were at least superficially under control, but now it seems that once some things crack, The development of that matter is probably far beyond everyone's imagination.

"Which army do you belong to?"

Qin Bao waited for a while, and seeing that King Qi and Zhang Xing were silent, he immediately rode up and scolded him severely. "How to wander here?"

A group of armored robbers looked at each other, and then a leader stepped forward proudly, showing a messy beard: "Which army do you belong to? If you are a partner in the army, we can discuss it... But what's the matter?" Without armor?"

The accent is heavy, and it seems to be a local rather than a Kansai or Central Plains person.

"We are Fulongwei." Qin Bao said seriously.

"What is Fulongwei, forbidden army?" The bearded leader frowned on the spot.

"almost."

"Then I'm sorry." The leader said with a complete sneer and relief. "Ye, the imperial army came here, ruined our place, and attracted the Wu tribe, and robbed the north. In the end, we rescued us, and we went to Taiyuan by ourselves, and we were rewarded. , happily went back to the Eastern Capital to enjoy the blessings, but left us here and didn't give us a penny...one tael of silver per person, so I don't want your horses, otherwise our twenty steel crossbows You must not recognize ye."

"Is it the garrison army from Fenyang Palace, or the garrison army from Taiyuan, or the rebel army gathered in Taiyuan with King Qi?" Zhang Xing suddenly reined in his horse and asked.

The man was stunned for a moment, but he still responded, "We are the Taiyuan Rebel Army."

"Why didn't the Taiyuan Rebels follow Shengjia back to Taiyuan?" Qin Bao interjected in surprise.

"After passing the White Wolf Fortress, we will stay there. Someone must be guarding along the road, right?" The man sneered, but still made some additions. "Actually, we should go back to Taiyuan. We just don't want to go back. We want to do business without money..."

Qin Bao wanted to speak again, Zhang Xing nodded directly, and continued to ask: "So, in fact, Shengjia left directly without any reward for the reinforcements from Jin?"

"What else is there?" The man seemed to realize something, and immediately turned around to ask behind him after responding. "What the hell is Fulongwei?"

"It's all the fault of His Highness." Zhang Xing turned his head and looked at each other, and came to talk to King Qi, his words were earnest and his voice was loud. "If Taiyuan is still staying behind, at least a little bit of the number of honors can be allocated... As a result, because His Highness cannot win the trust of Junfu, so many people have been implicated... In winter, His Highness can't just abandon them like this, Otherwise, not only are they destined to become thieves, but the surroundings will also be harmed by them."

Cao Ming hesitated to speak, but under the watchful eyes of the other Fulongwei, he could only keep silent.

But Zhang Xing didn't care about it at all, he rode his horse forward for a few steps, and then slightly sideways his horse to get out of the way, and then pointed his whip at King Qi in front of the obviously flustered soldiers:

"Brothers from Taiyuan, the person behind is His Royal Highness King Qi who brought you before... You all ended up today because His Highness supervised the army in the north before, and no one made decisions for you... But now that Your Highness is back, the brothers in Taiyuan will There is a way to survive, and when His Highness returns, the land of Jin will be at peace! Come together and pay homage to King Qi, not only will you be exonerated, but King Qi will take you to ask for rewards! Isn’t it wonderful?”

Cao Ming was dumbfounded and coughed twice on the spot.

But those armored highway robbers stirred up, and then there was chaotic verification and noisy discussions. During this process, the crossbow that had been placed behind the big tree blocking the road was obviously put away.

After a while, the leader actually believed it, and then threw away his weapon, saying that he would come to meet and verify.

Zhang Xing also hurriedly turned around and led them to see King Qi behind the team.

"Don't harm me!" Looking at Zhang Xing who was coming towards him, Cao Ming was furious.

"It was His Highness who harmed them first." Zhang Xingyi spoke uprightly. "Dignified Prince, why are you so irresponsible?"

The Fulong guards came to see immediately, the bearded leader glanced at Cao Ming, then at Zhang Xing, and flinched for a while.

Cao Ming still had to speak.

But Zhang Xing intensified: "The sages have already abandoned them, so is King Qi going to abandon them again? Besides, what else can His Highness lose? Even if you don't take responsibility, don't you even have a conscience?"

Cao Ming was even more stunned, but the bearded leader couldn't take it anymore when he heard this, but immediately stepped forward, pretended to look at it for a few times, and then bowed down in front of the horse and cried, telling all about what King Qin had suffered this time. unfair.

According to this person, they were fine when they first went north with King Qi, but when they came back, they were thrown here and immediately met with complete ignorance—in the messy mess, the White Wolf Fortress is full of ghosts to the north. The state governor unified the command and ignored them at all, and Taiyuan has never given orders behind him.

I stayed here for two days, and I was expecting rewards, but suddenly I heard from the people who came and went that the holy car had gone, and only then did I know that the rewards handed down during the siege before were all invalidated, and only the imperial army had those honors. , They have no part in the Taiyuan defenders at all.

That's not to mention, they were going back to Taiyuan, but within three or five days after they had gone, they met other King Qin soldiers and horses scattered on the way. There was not a trace of silk left.

Moreover, the Juncheng had a quarrel with other military leaders of the Taiyuan garrison army, and locked the city to prevent the garrison troops from entering.

When they arrived at Loufanguan, the superiors really said that they were allowed to leave but not allowed to enter... So they were completely panicked, and they didn't know where to go?So they turned back, but it was freezing cold, and there was no one to supplement the logistics, so they simply robbed.

"Taiyuan is a dignified companion capital. It is not uncommon for a county magistrate to handle the military well, especially because many sergeants are outside the county. They are even more incompetent." Zhang Xing sighed. "But there is a problem here...why didn't Sheng Jia set up a temporary Taiyuan stay-at-home when he left?"

"What do you think?" King Qi asked boldly.

"It wasn't necessary at the beginning... After the matter of Ma's father and son and the eldest princess, the saint was a bit taboo... But more importantly, Sheng Jia was in Jindi at that time, and Taiyuan affairs, Sheng Jia can decide with one word, until now It’s not good, there are the ministers and you, Your Highness, and the other two ministers who came to accompany the funeral after handling the funeral.”

Zhang Xing analyzed it carefully.

"But soon there will be Dulan Khan's surprise attack, which no one expected, so it's your turn to make the decision by fate. After returning, because the promise in advance was not fulfilled, the imperial army was unstable, and the saint could not At this time, it is possible for the sage himself to omit something... However, from the perspective of the above, the chief executives did not remind the sage, or the people below did not report the situation of the army in Taiyuan It’s unimaginable for the top management.”

"So?" King Qi was still at a loss.

"So." Zhang Xing's tone became more and more earnest. "This is a treacherous minister in the imperial court! Your Highness, don't go back to the Eastern Capital, go to Taiyuan, gather the troops in Taiyuan, take the supplies from Fenyang Palace as a comfort reward, and then ask His Highness's mentor, Mrs. Zhang, to come forward and give it to him." Uncle Huang from Jing'antai wrote a letter to explain his helplessness, and asked them to ask Dongdu for justice for everyone."

Those below the King of Qi, including Qin Bao and other Fulongwei, as well as the bearded army bandit, were all stunned.

"If that's the case, we are willing to follow King Qi!" Unexpectedly, it was the bearded army bandit on the ground who responded first. "People are scattered all over the place. They say that there are places from Bailangsai to Taiyuan City, but I know all the places and people. As long as His Highness says a word, I can pull them all down to King Qi!"

Qin Bao opened his mouth and was speechless for a moment.

"Don't harm me!" But almost in the next moment, King Qi sternly reprimanded him. "Zhang Xing, what's your idea?! You...I told you all of that? That's Father Jun! I...you..."

"What is your Highness thinking?" Zhang Xing's words became more and more earnest. "How can I harm His Highness? Where is my idea wrong?"

"It's useless." Cao Ming, one head and two big, almost begged. "Zhang Xing, you don't understand, it can't be done like that... Youzhou Governor's Mansion is strong and strong, right behind you, the Eastern Capital's army is gathered, Guanzhong..."

"Guanzhong has just abolished five administrative offices." Zhang Xing quickly added. "Wei Shangshu just died, there will be some disturbances in the court, maybe the Zhongcheng will be furious."

"But if I stop in Taiyuan in violation of the imperial edict, I will be the one who will cause the biggest disturbance, not to mention the emperor and Mrs. Zhang, they will not be shaken so easily." Cao Ming sighed. "They are great masters. The pagodas of the great masters are built according to the way. I dare not say that their hearts are like steel, but they have all reached this point. They will never repeat themselves and become traitors... Your tricks, You can't hide it from the world."

Zhang Xing sneered, then nodded again: "The lower officials are naive."

Cao Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, Zhang Xingfu looked at the bearded military bandit on the ground again: "I'm sorry Your Excellency, but you have also seen that His Highness King Qi is the same as the imperial court, so we don't want you anymore."

The majestic leader of the bandit before heard these words, not furious or sneering, but lay down on the ground and wiped his tears on the spot, and the tears fell, directly drawing two black lines on his ashen face.

Cao Ming was on the horse, feeling like he was sitting on pins and needles.

And the thief cried twice, stood up, and sighed instead: "Forget it, I also believe that he is the real King Qi, and it is quite rare for such a valuable person to say a few words to me, and listen His Highness also has his own embarrassing intentions, can we still force His Highness to do things? I will call for someone to make way, let's go!"

Cao Ming could only cover his face.

After a while, the road opened, and everyone galloped past as if fleeing, and the fastest runner was King Qi.

Zhang Xing, on the other hand, rode past unhurriedly, carefully scrutinizing the former regular soldiers along the way, not to mention, after passing this section of the road, he even took the initiative to stop, and turned back to ask those people:
"Why do you want to go to Bailangsai to rob? Don't you go to the surrounding area of ​​Taiyuan? Are you rich there?"

"What is this man thinking?" Someone immediately raised his voice to refute. "The rabbit still doesn't eat the grass by the side of the nest... If you really do this on the edge of Taiyuan, can you go back in the future? Well, this is where the original military order was directed."

Zhang Xing nodded, wanted to leave, but turned back again: "Do you have all the winter clothes?"

"I brought it back from Taiyuan before." Another person quietly agreed. "The lord doesn't care about us, why does this man ask these questions?"

"Is there enough food?" Zhang Xing continued to ask.

"A few more days." The bearded bandit leader finally caught up. "What do you want to do?"

"It's nothing." Zhang Xing sighed. "You guys have knives, and you are all strong men. If you are hungry, it is impossible to starve you... Do less evil. After a while, there is really no way to say it. Take a small path and go around the building to go home for the New Year... …When the time comes, use these armored steel crossbows to form a security team, and the folks in the village will only be grateful to you."

The others looked at each other in blank dismay, but the bearded bandit leader was startled for a moment, and asked in turn: "You've decided that the imperial court really doesn't care about us? The whole group just left?"

"Not necessarily... who knows?" Zhang Xing shook his head and cupped his hands slightly. "Zhang Xing in the north, we will meet again by fate."

Saying that, he galloped straight away and went after King Qi.

In this way, the team continued to gallop south, and within a few days, they crossed the Loufan Pass, and then continued to go south. Soldiers, the chaos of bandits and bandits.

Xu Shi felt guilty. His Royal Highness King Qi did not go to Fenyang Palace to take the Fenshui Road, which is destined to have the most chaos and refugees. In Zhoushan, I took a relatively small road to the south.

But on this day, seeing that they had already arrived in Taiyuan and turned around a mountain pass, everyone was completely stunned, because they were robbed again, and behind these robbers was a building that had been burned for a little while but was re-military. transformed village.

"It seems that you are in the robes of the army. Each of you is allowed to pass for one tael of silver." The bandit leader was wearing a dirty Mingguang armor. Flowered jackets, carrying iron forks and the like. "Otherwise, our dozen steel crossbows are not afraid of you."

"What if I want to join?"

Qin Bao, King Qi and other Fu Longwei came to see Zhang Xing again. Zhang Xing sighed, got off his horse, left the scimitar and sheathless sword on the horse, and walked up empty-handed. "The imperial court threw us to the north, and we came back through a path."

"You guys want to join the gang too?" The bandit leader frowned. "It's not impossible, but you have to submit a certificate!"

"Okay." Zhang Xing nodded, walked to the position seven or eight steps away from the opponent, and still confronted with empty hands. "How to say?"

"Actually, there is still half a village in Aozi above. There is a bullshit hero nicknamed Breaking the Wave Knife. He is also the volunteer army of King Boqin, and he is also a local. There are seven or eight people who will not go with us, and insist on protecting the village above. It's not impossible to lead to our crossbow, but it can only be given to the third master." The bandit leader seems to be quite particular.

"According to the rules of our Northern Region, shake hands to make an appointment." Zhang Xing extended his hand sincerely. "It's a deal."

The man on the opposite side was stunned for a moment, nodded, turned around and smiled: "He's still a particular person...but I like it, saints are not particular, we should be too!"

As he said that, he threw down his weapon and walked forward with his head held high. When he met Zhang Xing, two pairs of powerful hands were tightly held together in an instant.

At the next moment, the surroundings of the two were filled with cold air, and the dripping water turned into ice, which seemed to herald the approaching of the twelfth lunar month.

PS: Good night everyone.

(End of this chapter)